64GB Crucial RealSSD C300 2.5-inch SATA 6GB/s?

[Chav]

No there wouldnt. you're wasting your time.

You wont notice the difference with reads and write speed wont be affected.

the 64gb doesnt do as many iops as the 256gb version which will benefit from the lower latency.

how fast does it feel with the optimisations above?

[Sponge]

It feels fast. It felt fast before.

Put it this way - if I had a 500bhp car and it felt fast, but a rolling road said it was only putting out 400bhp, I'd want to know why and how to get my 500bhp!

[Sponge]

Nice review over on Hexus.

I'm afraid I bought the SATA 6 card. I just couldn't live with the thought that I wasn't getting everything out of the SSD that I could.

I won't pretend that I can actually feel the difference. It feels so fast anyway. But I'm confident I'm now realising the SSD's full potential, indicated by new benchmarks.

Write speeds are uneffected, already around their maximum of 75MB/s.

Read speeds are much improved, now approaching their maximum of 355MB/s.

With this new drive using the PC is a joy. I'm in Windows in a matter of seconds. Applications open in the blink of an eye. Switching users (which was always a pain as it took so long) happens in a flash.

I have to say, this SSD is the best upgrade I've ever made. Over the years getting a faster graphics card, or CPU, or memory, never made such a dramatic difference. Maybe that's due to the incremental nature of those upgrades over time. But for an instant, unmistakeable increase to the speed and feel of a PC I can highly recommend getting an SSD.

Edited July 7, 2010 by Sponge

[Sponge]

I'm not sure I'm going to stick with disk compression. I can't really tell the difference and I keep having to disable it to perform Windows Updates, otherwise some of them fail. :confused: