Goodmorning all. Yesterday I switched to SSDs! I bought 2x Crucial MX100. 128GB and 256GB. EDIT: I installed them to the wrong SATA ports. New benchies in later post. Here are (old) some benchies. Crystalmark 128GB Crystalmark 256GB AS SSD 128GB AS SSD 256GB
tbh I think you were better off with 1 large ssd. Unless you wanted the 128gb for an os drive. 55% full
Looking at those ssd on newegg, you would need the 512gb model for 500gb/s write, the reads are low in his pics. The 256gb pics are reminicent of my drive on a 3gb/s port. When I switched to the intel 6gb/s port I got whats pictured in my post.
Oh! That's a pretty huge mistake I made. I will do that and post the new results. Thanks for the tip.
I installed them to the Intel SATA ports. Thanks for the tip. Here're som new benchies: 128GB AS SSD 256GB AS SSD
Much better, write speed is hampered on that 128gb. If you got 1 512gb write speed would be around 500mb/s
Oh. I didn't consider that. I use the 128GB for my OS and programs. The 256GB are for the few games I play, ARMA III and Rome 2. The game load time in those games were killing me, especially Rome 2 on HDD.
Raw write speed not that important on an OS drive, not many huge sequential files to deal with so I think you've got that the right way round. I bought a 256Gb MX100 on Saturday and it replaced a very fast Toshiba 60Gb SSD which has 500+ speeds on both read and write and I can't say I've noticed a speed difference, except in benchmarks like AS. Interestingly the 4k performance on the MX100 is faster and it scores a higher score overall, but not by much.