Comments on: Transcend SATA-II 2.5″ SSD http://www.gadgetadvisor.com/computer-hardware/transcend-sata-ii-25-ssd Cutting Through the Cutting Edge Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:08:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: peddu http://www.gadgetadvisor.com/computer-hardware/transcend-sata-ii-25-ssd/comment-page-1#comment-7165 peddu Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:40:29 +0000 http://www.gadgetadvisor.com/?p=800#comment-7165 Pros: Inexpensive, large capacity for the price. Cons: Slow. Slow. Slow. The specs on this drive are woefully inaccurate. The drive doesn't even come close to the read/write speeds quoted. I get sustained reads somewhere in the 90 MB/s category which is acceptable for the price. The writes however are in the 40-45 MB/s category. Tested in both XP and Ubuntu, tweaked every imaginable setting (deadline IO/Scheduler, fifo_batch, noatime, disabled indexing etc..) yet cannot get the drive to perform anywhere near the expected levels. Other Thoughts: If you can handle the slow speeds, the drive *is* very inexpensive. I have decided to move this drive over to the backup/archive section. Here's hoping it lasts Regards Peddu hostcats.com Pros: Inexpensive, large capacity for the price.

Cons: Slow. Slow. Slow. The specs on this drive are woefully inaccurate. The drive doesn’t even come close to the read/write speeds quoted. I get sustained reads somewhere in the 90 MB/s category which is acceptable for the price. The writes however are in the 40-45 MB/s category. Tested in both XP and Ubuntu, tweaked every imaginable setting (deadline IO/Scheduler, fifo_batch, noatime, disabled indexing etc..) yet cannot get the drive to perform anywhere near the expected levels.

Other Thoughts: If you can handle the slow speeds, the drive *is* very inexpensive. I have decided to move this drive over to the backup/archive section. Here’s hoping it lasts

Regards

Peddu
hostcats.com

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