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Due to smaller size (fit the standard dimensions of 2.5¿ IDE Hard Disk Drives), huge capacity, high speed, and low power consumption, Solid State Disk is perfect replacement storage device for PCs, Laptops, gaming systems, and handheld devices. Features -- RoHS compliant, Fully compatible with devices and OS that support the IDE standard (44-Pin, pitch = 2.00 mm), Non-volatile Flash Memory for outstanding data retention, Built-in ECC (Error Correction Code) functionality and wear-leveling algorithm ensures highly reliable of data transfer, Supports up to PIO Mode 4 and Ultra DMA Mode 4, Lower Power Consumption, Shock resistance.
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 If You Use Windows, Don't Buy...Linux is another story |
| Review Date: September 7, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Matthew Parnell, |
Despite the fact that people complain about this drive being slow, the fact remains that they all are using Windows. Windows, both XP and Vista have two factors that make this drive suck when used with Windows.
These are the following:
A. Windows has a ton of background processes that always are accessing the disk, such as the indexing service and system restore.
B. Windows uses NTFS, a dilapidated old filesystem that is very inefficient, and it's journaling doesn't suffice with these drives. It's probable that even SLC (the "faster" models) will still be just as slow as a result of running Windows.
That said, I, a Linux user am extremely impressed and satisfied. I formatted this drive with the ext3 filesystem, using the noatime,notail,data=writeback options, which speed things even more. I am getting insane amounts of speed out of this little guy. Boot speed hasn't changed, as I already had it optomized as much as possible, and all the time my boot takes is 11 seconds. It would be less if the kernel did more things in parallel, but anyway, mechanical or not, throughput really doesn't have any bearing on boot speed after a while, unless you haven't hacked your init scripts to speed things up...
Anyway, apps start incredibly fast, latency is near real time, and I am very happy. If you have questions, please drop by #zen-sources on irc.freenode.net and ask me (ilikenwf) about this little fella.
I have a feeling using it with OSX would probably be pretty good too, I haven't tried using jfs with this drive, though. I will try ext4 when it is more stable, as it is even faster.
So far, I get sequential write speeds of around 126MB/sec, which is twice as fast as my mechanical drive. Random write isn't far behind. Those are far above the benchmarks given on the packaging, and I'd say this is an incredible deal. Go for it, if you use anything other than Windoze.
Benchmarks:
http://www.linuxinsight.com/how_fast_is_your_disk.html helped me figure these out. You should also see the ZDNet article on optimizing your filesystem for these disks.
/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 380 MB in 3.01 seconds = 126.28 MB/sec
Seeker v2.0, 2007-01-15, http://www.linuxinsight.com/how_fast_is_your_disk.html
Benchmarking /dev/sda [28832MB], wait 30 seconds..............................
Results: 2371 seeks/second, 0.42 ms random access time |
Works great (at least under Linux)
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| Review Date: February 28, 2010 |
| Reviewer: J Yendor, Portland, OR USA |
According to what I read on tech review sites, this drive uses the JMicron JMF602B controller, which supposedly have very bad random write performance (around 6 write operations per second). However, my own tests using fio on a ThinkPad X30 (circa 2003) painted a very different picture:
Sequential read: 58MB/s (14,600 IO/s)
Sequential write: 20MB/s (5,000 IO/s)
4KB random read: 15MB/s (3,700 IO/s)
4KB random write: 1.1MB/s (285 IO/s)
The 4KB random write performance is not that great compared to drives that use the Indilinx Barefoot controller (such as RunCore Pro IV), but the numbers I got in my own benchmark is 45 times better than the number (6 IO/s) reported by tech review sites. Maybe Transcend and JMicron solved the problem with JMF602B, or maybe the low random write performance problem is specific only to Windows. Who knows? All I can tell you is that this drive works great in Linux, and that is all that matters to me.
In comparison, here are the benchmark results I got for my Hitachi 5K100 5400rpm 100GB (mechanical) hard drive:
Sequential read: 37MB/s
Sequential write: 32MB/s
4KB random read: 0.46MB/s
4KB random write: 0.8MB/s
Note the drastic difference in random read performance. |
Make sure you buy the right one! The slc, not the one they sell here, (the MLC does not work well for Operating systems)
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| Review Date: July 2, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Dean Biddle, |
From their web site..
"TS32GSSD25-M 32GB 32GB 2.5" Solid State Disk - MLC
TS32GSSD25-S 32GB 32GB 2.5" Solid State Disk - SLC
TS64GSSD25-M 64GB 64GB 2.5" Solid State Disk - MLC
*For OS installations, SLC version is recommended
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Fast!
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| Review Date: March 29, 2009 |
| Reviewer: APenName, seattle, wa United States |
I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on it. It took about an hour. I supposed it would have taken longer if the computer was faster than 733MHz. The installation took about the same about of time as when I installed the same OS to a 7200RPM 3.5" disk, so the bottleneck was apparently the CPU and the CDROM drive.
Regular use of the system is quick -- Booting is faster, launching applications and doing anything disk-related is faster... this is a great drive! |
works great & fast
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| Review Date: June 27, 2009 |
| Reviewer: David P. Prock, Lexington, NC 27292 |
Before i bought it i read other peoples review, and some people said it didnt work well with windows. But at that time i was using Linux, and the Linux users said it works great, So i got it and it does!
But later i needed to start using windows again cause of some software.
I had read that the reason people had problems is cause windows uses NTFS file system which dont work well on these drives.
Well i use Windows Xp Pro, and when you goto install it by default it only gives you the option to use NTFS.
But if you have a way to format the drive to Fat32 before you boot the windows install cd, when you do, it should give you the option to use a Fat32 Formated Partition.
SO i used [...] . scrool down to "Download final stable version" and get the iso and burn it.
Boot off the cd and use the default boot options (just press enter) then when you are at a prompt type startx , Then when the graphical user interface loads, in the shell/treminal window type gparted , its simple to use.
Oh and something to think about while your partitioning the drive, If you will be using file share apps and working with files in size of around 4 gig or more like dvd's you will want to make 2 partitions, one Fat32 for windows and a NTFS for your dvd sized files.
If you feal like you need to, you can mail me at [...] |
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well i looked at all the reviews and decided to buy the 32 gb mlc version installed it in a hp tc4200 with windows 7 man what a change picked up a hour on battery life now 4.5 hours super fast read and writes windows 7 is optomized for ssd and it shows if you have windows 7 go for it you won’t be sorry