Comments on: The “King” of drives! http://blog.superuser.com/2011/03/07/the-king-of-drives/ The Super User Community Blog Mon, 05 Dec 2016 07:34:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.6 By: surfasb http://blog.superuser.com/2011/03/07/the-king-of-drives/#comment-23 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:01:13 +0000 http://superuser.blogoverflow.com/?p=494#comment-23 kronos said: “Sorry I misunderstood. I thought you were referring to hybrid vs SSD. you are correct though that the hybrid did have slightly faster write speeds. As the files that were created were only 256mb and 2gb my assumption is that part of the write process is to dump parts of the files to the 4gb flash of the hybrid which then writes to the disks.”

According to AnandTech, the hybrid drive’s flash is a read only cache.

]]> By: kronos http://blog.superuser.com/2011/03/07/the-king-of-drives/#comment-22 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:43:09 +0000 http://superuser.blogoverflow.com/?p=494#comment-22 I decided to leave those tests out as it was pretty clear that the HDD wasn’t ‘up to speed’. I can do them if you’re interested however, but it’ll be down the road.

]]> By: tombrito http://blog.superuser.com/2011/03/07/the-king-of-drives/#comment-21 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:15:09 +0000 http://superuser.blogoverflow.com/?p=494#comment-21 why the HDD is not included on the last tests? Or it’s insignificant on those?

]]> By: Ryan Meray | ctechsinc.com http://blog.superuser.com/2011/03/07/the-king-of-drives/#comment-20 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:21:31 +0000 http://superuser.blogoverflow.com/?p=494#comment-20 Good stuff. Great article!

]]> By: kronos http://blog.superuser.com/2011/03/07/the-king-of-drives/#comment-19 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:02:11 +0000 http://superuser.blogoverflow.com/?p=494#comment-19 Sorry I misunderstood. I thought you were referring to hybrid vs SSD. you are correct though that the hybrid did have slightly faster write speeds. As the files that were created were only 256mb and 2gb my assumption is that part of the write process is to dump parts of the files to the 4gb flash of the hybrid which then writes to the disks.

]]> By: ix http://blog.superuser.com/2011/03/07/the-king-of-drives/#comment-18 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 13:04:28 +0000 http://superuser.blogoverflow.com/?p=494#comment-18 Ehm, write speed is clearly higher than the normal drive in all three of your benchmarks?

]]> By: kronos http://blog.superuser.com/2011/03/07/the-king-of-drives/#comment-17 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:37:24 +0000 http://superuser.blogoverflow.com/?p=494#comment-17 I didn’t get faster write speeds with the hybrid. I got a very slight faster average boot time with the hybrid after it had been ‘trained’

]]> By: KristoferA http://blog.superuser.com/2011/03/07/the-king-of-drives/#comment-16 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 01:54:22 +0000 http://superuser.blogoverflow.com/?p=494#comment-16 What I don’t understand is how you got better write speeds on the hybrid drive, when the extra flash on it is only used as a read cache. Did you run the tests while other processes were still using the drive…?

]]> By: kronos http://blog.superuser.com/2011/03/07/the-king-of-drives/#comment-15 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:38:42 +0000 http://superuser.blogoverflow.com/?p=494#comment-15 Great question! I actually did not check this before I tested, however I just checked it right now via this method and the allignment checked out fine for both drives.

]]> By: Ryan Meray | ctechsinc.com http://blog.superuser.com/2011/03/07/the-king-of-drives/#comment-14 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:35:45 +0000 http://superuser.blogoverflow.com/?p=494#comment-14 You said you mirrored the drive using Acronis TrueImage; in my experience, unless you jump through hoops while cloning from a HDD to an SSD using any current version of Acronis, the resulting partition on the SSD is not properly aligned, causing mild performance degradation. Did you check alignment prior to running benchmarks? If the partition wasn’t aligned, you’ll see even greater performance out of the SSD after aligning the partition.

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