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ok so i finally started messing with my little SSD. I picked it up from ZZF since it was $64 vs $74 at the egg. I also got fedex 2day shipping for only $10 which was a huge plus to me. now the plan was to test the SSD out in the Atom 330 box with a ICH7 chipset. However i ran into the same problem agian with my main box. Seems sometime after installing some driver, i think it is the ATI drivers. Still not to sure since after unistalling the drivers and using driver cleaner windows still doesnt boot. I can get the box to boot into windows safe mode which is the odd part. thats where my ssd testing changes, now since i needed to reinstall windows xp, i figured i would go ahead to some testing on the ich8r on my board. i dont yet have numbers from anything but i just wanted to say that, this thing is fast!. i have read a few reviews at newegg and a few other spots. the main complaint seemed to be that loading/installing xp was taking a long time. well once you do the partition alignment as covered on OCZ's forum, here. after reading the instructions doing the partition alignment took no time at all. what is simply amazing is that i started the windows xp install about 5 minutes ago and it is almost done! as i type this on my Atom box, im not looking at the setting up the regional settings. before any updates there are some registrity tweaks i will do first according to this other OCZ post here. I feel like OCZ gave a bit of a taste of what is to come in 2009 for SSD's!! Some ATTO numbers to come a bit later! 
Ok so now im off and crossing my fingers that after getting Xp setup. that i do not run into the same problem i have had twice now, on my gaming box.
*edit* time stamped by forum 3:54pm
ok im in XP now, time to apply the Xp tweaks!
*edit2* time stamped by forum 4:00pm
forgot to mention that this is one of the fastest windows xp installs i have done ever on one of my boxes. normally i have to wait about 30mins for xp to get done.
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Here is ATTO 16MB-256MB file size set to Niether and Overlapped IO. i dont know the difference between the two, as i followed a suggestion on OCZ forum about using Niether. Overlapped IO is set by defualt when you open up ATTO. Now also look closly at the read/write numbers, OCZ specced the drive at 150/MBs read,90MB/s write on 680i test bed.
What is interesting is one it gets to 64KB in transfering the file at set size is when we start to see the rated speeds. now its also interesting that Overlapped IO shows slighlty higher results then niether but both once at 128KB size for the transfer its over rated specs. You should also have noticed that once the size is 64mb+ that read speeds for a few of the KB sizes for transfers reach read speeds of 170MB/s using overlapped IO. That a few of the Neither SS's show 169MB/s in the same areas where Overlapped reached 170MB/s. While not my test setup this is also interesting to compare my results to 4 way SSD shootout. the write for this SSD gets rather close to the Raptor in ATTO even to the other SLC drives this one is faster as well. The only drive that really stuck out compared to the others in ATTO is the mtron as it has a higer write speed then the other SLCs. It is also intersting to see this MLC based drive get close to the mtron in write speed even though specced for only 90MB/s writes. Im still wondering why they didnt do as wide of a range in ATTO as i did when benching and they only stuck with a 32MB size for the transfer and only 8-1024KB sizes. Needless to say the Mtron pro's are still rather costly so is the SuperTalen MX SLC based drive, makes this drive look even better.
Ok so now im off and crossing my fingers that after getting Xp setup. that i do not run into the same problem i have had twice now, on my gaming box.
*edit* time stamped by forum 3:54pm
ok im in XP now, time to apply the Xp tweaks!
*edit2* time stamped by forum 4:00pm
forgot to mention that this is one of the fastest windows xp installs i have done ever on one of my boxes. normally i have to wait about 30mins for xp to get done.
*edit3*
Here is ATTO 16MB-256MB file size set to Niether and Overlapped IO. i dont know the difference between the two, as i followed a suggestion on OCZ forum about using Niether. Overlapped IO is set by defualt when you open up ATTO. Now also look closly at the read/write numbers, OCZ specced the drive at 150/MBs read,90MB/s write on 680i test bed.
What is interesting is one it gets to 64KB in transfering the file at set size is when we start to see the rated speeds. now its also interesting that Overlapped IO shows slighlty higher results then niether but both once at 128KB size for the transfer its over rated specs. You should also have noticed that once the size is 64mb+ that read speeds for a few of the KB sizes for transfers reach read speeds of 170MB/s using overlapped IO. That a few of the Neither SS's show 169MB/s in the same areas where Overlapped reached 170MB/s. While not my test setup this is also interesting to compare my results to 4 way SSD shootout. the write for this SSD gets rather close to the Raptor in ATTO even to the other SLC drives this one is faster as well. The only drive that really stuck out compared to the others in ATTO is the mtron as it has a higer write speed then the other SLCs. It is also intersting to see this MLC based drive get close to the mtron in write speed even though specced for only 90MB/s writes. Im still wondering why they didnt do as wide of a range in ATTO as i did when benching and they only stuck with a 32MB size for the transfer and only 8-1024KB sizes. Needless to say the Mtron pro's are still rather costly so is the SuperTalen MX SLC based drive, makes this drive look even better.
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