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leehop71

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I have 3 questions I'd like to run by the forum:

1. I would like to get everyone's opinion on the Kingston SSD.

2. How would you rank the SSD manufacturers from the best.

3. Is any additional utility software necessary for the SSDs?
(I've heard a lot about TRIM and SMART)
 
leehop71 said:
1. I would like to get everyone's opinion on the Kingston SSD.
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Which one? Kingston makes more than one. They're a good manufacturer.

leehop71 said:
2. How would you rank the SSD manufacturers from the best.
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In terms of performance (No particular order; they're all good):
Samsung
Kingston
Crucial
SanDisk
OCZ

Those are the top brands I'd buy.

leehop71 said:
3. Is any additional utility software necessary for the SSDs?
(I've heard a lot about TRIM and SMART)
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SMART is just a failure node built into the drive, just like it is in a HDD. If it's tripped, that means the drive is failing.

TRIM is built into the operating system (Windows anyway - only supported on 7, 8, and 8.1) and is automatically enabled when the OS detects an SSD. Linux normally needs a command to enable it, and OSX only supports TRIM on Apple-branded SSD's. So if you're going to be running it on a Mac, you need to download a small piece of software called "TRIM Enabler", which will force enable TRIM.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
Which one? Kingston makes more than one. They're a good manufacturer.



In terms of performance (No particular order; they're all good):
Samsung
Kingston
Crucial
SanDisk
OCZ

Those are the top brands I'd buy.



SMART is just a failure node built into the drive, just like it is in a HDD. If it's tripped, that means the drive is failing.

TRIM is built into the operating system (Windows anyway - only supported on 7, 8, and 8.1) and is automatically enabled when the OS detects an SSD. Linux normally needs a command to enable it, and OSX only supports TRIM on Apple-branded SSD's. So if you're going to be running it on a Mac, you need to download a small piece of software called "TRIM Enabler", which will force enable TRIM.
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I have 2 Kingston V300 120G.

I am running on Windows 7, so I should be okay without having additional SSD software?
 
There is no other software for it. Just make sure auto-defragmentation is disabled in Disk Defragmentor.
 
I have various kingston hyper x & crucial ssd`s and i am happy with performance and price of them all.

The only ssd I have owned i was not very impressed with was a sandisk
 
leehop71 said:
3. Is any additional utility software necessary for the SSDs?
(I've heard a lot about TRIM and SMART)
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No. TRIM is a command taken care of by the operating system and SMART is for platters and SSDs. SMART stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. If you run HDTune or some other hard dive monitoring app you can see the SMART data on the disk.

If you install an OS to the SSD I would delete the partition and format so that it's aligned properly. And as mentioned you need to turn off auto defragmentation in Windows. NEVER defrag a SSD. It's not needed anyway.
 
Whenever I've done a clean SSD install of Windows 7 I've had to go in and manually disable it.
 
Will disk defragmentation be disabled by default on SSDs?
Yes. The automatic scheduling of defragmentation will exclude partitions on devices that declare themselves as SSDs. Additionally, if the system disk has random read performance characteristics above the threshold of 8 MB/sec, then it too will be excluded. The threshold was determined by internal analysis.
The random read threshold test was added to the final product to address the fact that few SSDs on the market today properly identify themselves as SSDs. 8 MB/sec is a relatively conservative rate. While none of our tested HDDs could approach 8 MB/sec, all of our tested SSDs exceeded that threshold. SSD performance ranged between 11 MB/sec and 130 MB/sec. Of the 182 HDDs tested, only 6 configurations managed to exceed 2 MB/sec on our random read test. The other 176 ranged between 0.8 MB/sec and 1.6 MB/sec.
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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx
 
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