I have a 2nd gen intel SSD. I just upgrade to an ivy bridge system. Am i going to see that much performance on going from my 2nd gen intel ssd to something like a crucial m4?
thanks...
I have a 2nd gen intel SSD. I just upgrade to an ivy bridge system. Am i going to see that much performance on going from my 2nd gen intel ssd to something like a crucial m4?
thanks...
I know neweg SSD's have smalled NAND which makes them degrade faster, but it will have better performance for a while. This is the reason I will never get an SSD (with current tech)
I know neweg SSD's have smalled NAND which makes them degrade faster, but it will have better performance for a while. This is the reason I will never get an SSD (with current tech)
If you're not completely sure, wait until black friday and there will probably be a deal you can't refuse.
The drive interface doesn't effect system responsiveness nor does raw throughput. If you felt an increase in snapiness moving from SATA2 to SATA3, all you're feeling is a placebo effect.
If a drive performing at a minimum of 50% faster wouldn't affect responsiveness, I'm not sure what would.
A drive with the same access time and twice the throughput is NOT 50% faster. With a 0% decrease in access time, there is a corresponding 0% increase in responsiveness.
Will it benchmark faster? Yes. Will it load large amounts of data faster? Yes. Reducing the copying time of a 1GB file by 50% is not how most people measure system responsiveness. Will the same SSD doubling its throughput from 250MB/s to 500MB/s be any snappier in "regular" everyday computing? No. It's all in your head.
I open programs, they open faster, hence computer is faster. If you don't like the word "responsiveness", then fine. I don't really want to argue semantics of access times and how they're not affected by the SATA interface.
I happened to have some benchmarks and some firsthand observations that I thought would be helpful to the OP. I stand by them.
I've used my friend's i7 950 with a Vertex 2 and it's much more responsive than my current system.
Indilinx (the controller in your performance 64) was good for its day but even the first gen sandforce drives (vertex 2 series) blow it away in terms of responsiveness in my experience.
The tangibility factor i find is greatly diminshed going from vertex 2/intel g2 series to modern drives - as a boot drive at least. If you write a lot of data to them (especially large files) then theres more of a difference between them and newer sata 3 drives.