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Re: NOOB: Graphics Card & mSata advice
Some SSDs are faster than others, obviously a 6Gb sata hooked up to a 6Gb sata controler is going to be faster than a 3Gb sata. Most of the drives out there are sandforce based, those use data compression to improve their performance, which means they are wicked fast at tasks that involve compressible data (which is a lot of the stuff you'll use), but suffer when dealing with incompressible data (compressed video for example). Samsung's 830 series is considered tops overall for this reason and the Crucial M series are also considered to be over all superior to the sandforce drives.
Different types of flash memory also offer different peformance levels and advantages/disadvantages. Single Level Cell flash is much faster and more durable than multi-level-cell flash (2 bits per cell), but MUCH more expensive and typically only found in Enterprise market drives.
Without knowing what exactly this guy was comparing I can't really give you a full explanation. It could be he had a slow regular SSD and a fast mSATA drive, perhaps he was using highly compressed files wt a Sandforce SSD and a non-sandforce mSATA ssd. Larger SSDs also tend to have better performance due to more flash memory channels. Perhaps it was a specialized MB/mSATA, but AFAIK there is nothing inherently special about an mSATA connection.
Tops in speed in any case are the PCIe based drives like OWC's Accelsior
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/PCIe ... lsior/RAID
They aren't limited by having to go through an interface that was designed with conventional HDDs in mind and PCIe is essentially a direct connection to the processor, while SATA goes through an external controller chip. The higher end ones ($$$$$) can have throughput in the thousands of gigabytes per second and can be raided together to hit mindboggling amounts of throughput (at an equally astronomical price).
TRIM doesn't make a drive faster, it just prevents it from loosing performance over time which happens for a number of complicated reasons.
YK97 said:wow, that comment really made me think, hmm so what your saying is that the mSATA connector itself not faster it's just that mSATA's are SSD's which are faster than the normal HDD so basically if i get a 6 gb/s SSD say.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820148441 with higher preformance (Sustained Sequential Read/write....etc.) than the m SATA 3gb/s http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820211581 it would be much faster
Some SSDs are faster than others, obviously a 6Gb sata hooked up to a 6Gb sata controler is going to be faster than a 3Gb sata. Most of the drives out there are sandforce based, those use data compression to improve their performance, which means they are wicked fast at tasks that involve compressible data (which is a lot of the stuff you'll use), but suffer when dealing with incompressible data (compressed video for example). Samsung's 830 series is considered tops overall for this reason and the Crucial M series are also considered to be over all superior to the sandforce drives.
Different types of flash memory also offer different peformance levels and advantages/disadvantages. Single Level Cell flash is much faster and more durable than multi-level-cell flash (2 bits per cell), but MUCH more expensive and typically only found in Enterprise market drives.
YK97 said:and not to be rude but on what basis are you saying all these things because in another thread a man with an mSATA and a normal SSD said the mSATA was way faster (although he had not activated TRIM)
Without knowing what exactly this guy was comparing I can't really give you a full explanation. It could be he had a slow regular SSD and a fast mSATA drive, perhaps he was using highly compressed files wt a Sandforce SSD and a non-sandforce mSATA ssd. Larger SSDs also tend to have better performance due to more flash memory channels. Perhaps it was a specialized MB/mSATA, but AFAIK there is nothing inherently special about an mSATA connection.
Tops in speed in any case are the PCIe based drives like OWC's Accelsior
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/PCIe ... lsior/RAID
They aren't limited by having to go through an interface that was designed with conventional HDDs in mind and PCIe is essentially a direct connection to the processor, while SATA goes through an external controller chip. The higher end ones ($$$$$) can have throughput in the thousands of gigabytes per second and can be raided together to hit mindboggling amounts of throughput (at an equally astronomical price).
TRIM doesn't make a drive faster, it just prevents it from loosing performance over time which happens for a number of complicated reasons.