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M6400 Component Upgrades - Opinions Sought, SSDs

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by anhkieu, Dec 12, 2008.

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  1. kroton

    kroton Notebook Enthusiast

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    Is the Samsung SLC SSD,
     
    kroton, Dec 15, 2008
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    My bootup times with Intel X25-M are about 35 seconds or so. (not including the BIOS stuff) Photoshop CS3 loads in 3 seconds. Flash in about 3 seconds as well. I don't think I will ever run an OS on a traditional HDD again.
     
    nixx, Dec 16, 2008
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    That is quick!

    How long for Illustrator CS3 to load?
    How many fonts do you have?
     
    LLavelle, Dec 17, 2008
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    It takes me 6 seconds to load Illustrator CS3. I have 765 fonts installed at present.
     
    nixx, Dec 17, 2008
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    WoW!

    Dual Intel X25-M RAID 0
    Or single Intel X25-M.
     
    LLavelle, Dec 18, 2008
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    Single Intel X25-M. I have a 320GB 7200RPM hitachi HDD in my drive #2 spot. I store all my archived work on there. All my applications are loaded on my Intel SSD, including my OS. I have disabled the pagefile as well. The M6400 Covet is awesome spec-wise. If they ever fix the video driver it will be perfect.
     
    nixx, Dec 18, 2008
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    This sounds neat. I was considering an x-25M for boot/programs and moving the 320G 7200 to drive 1. I guess I wonder about the differences between raid0 across the two 320Gs versus the SSD. I know the raid0 write performance will probably beat the SSD...
     
    dma550, Dec 19, 2008
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    Anybody have benchmarks for two X25-M in RAID0 on M6400 or Covet?
     
    hooterbif, Jun 15, 2009
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    I did a somewhat scientific speed comparison using the OCZ Vertex Series SSDs and 3 identical ThinkPads... The vertex series drives are pretty cheap but quite fast. I can't seem to embed the video, so here's the link:

    http://vimeo.com/5064115

    My company has a bunch of Lenovo X60 and X61 TabletPCs in the hands of our salesmen. Seeking to extend the useful life of these computers, I thought I'd see how effective an SSD upgrade would be along with Windows 7 RC build 7100.
    All 3 of the computers shown are X60 Tablets with L2400 processors and 2GB of RAM. The two on the left have the stock 5400RPM HDD installed, the one on the right has an OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD. The lone Windows XP machine is how the computers are currently configured. A lot of the extra time booting up is spent loading support apps, such as Lenovo's fingerprint software, some of which is no longer necessary even in XP... MOST of which is not necessary in Win 7.
    The tests I ran were standard tasks our salesmen run every day using SalesLogix which we use for CRM and invoicing. SalesLogix uses a local db via MSDE (or SQL Server Express on the Windows 7 machines).
    I judge a boot process to be complete when the computer is usable... so I brought up the task manager on each machine and waited until processor usage was down below 3% for a few seconds before officially marking the machine "done booting."
    One of the greatest benefits of using an SSD in these machines cannot be quantified in this environment: the ability to safely turn off the HDD-protection software which senses physical shocks to the system and seats the HDD's heads for a few seconds, effectively pausing anything the computer is doing until the "shocks" stop. This means that users can't walk and launch SalesLogix at the same time or it will take a verrrry long time to open. A SSD removes this limitation and will make noticeable improvements in productivity in the field.
    These 30GB SSD's can be purchased for just over $100 right now and 60GB drives are around $210. I highly recommend them.
     
    geewhipped, Jun 15, 2009
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