Steady State Performance
For those who do not know, steady state performance is the performance you get on a drive after normal use.
When an SSD drive is pulled out of the box, it is at its maximum performance level. As you fill the drive up and do lots of writes and erases, performance degrades, though technologies such as TRIM are designed to minimize this as much as possible.
To see if performance was affected at all, after running our benchmarks, we installed Windows and all of our standard programs, then ran the system for about a week. Our benchmark results were identical except for HD Tune.
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Here we see what happened to HD Tune after just a week of very normal use. Our speeds were all over the place with huge dips and higher access times.
Aside from benchmarks, the drive was extremely unstable, with crashes and freezes happening multiple times per day. These seem to be a result of the Sandforce 2281 controller that the SP900 uses as other drives with the controller have similar issues.
Raid-1 vs Raid-0 there I saw data as very important and donbuilg the failure rate was not something I wanted to do.My SSD really blows your raid-0 out of the water when we talk about reads and the more random they become the better. Although I’ve read crystal disk mark isn’t the best for testing drives anyways just the easiest to do.