any benchmarks for iram and ssd?

[alienworkshop]

any benchmarks comparing new ssd's to the iram? i know i seen an old one, but i want to make sure iram is faster, cause the ssd's might have gotten faster since then, cause i want to pick up iram cause it's supposedly faster, just looking for the fastest option. thanks.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Didn't you make an identical thread about a month ago? SSDs are completely superior to iRAM in every way. And you don't lose everything when you turn them off like with iRAM. There is a reason it was only sold for about 2 years.

 

[alienworkshop]

hmmm, i know but is the new ssd's okay now? didn't they suffer write problems? i was just making sure, and i think i put that in a thread where people were talking about something else. so no, i didn't.

 

[alienworkshop]

btw, they said the iram was faster, so i don't know who to believe. most people said except for you that the iram was faster. this is a mess...

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Someone made a thread about it a month or so ago. The iRAM thing was only made for a few years. It's fast but it's limited to 4GB of DDR 400 and it's only SATA 1 so it's bottlenecked by the SATA interface to a maximum sustained throughput of 150 MB/s. A modern SSD fully saturates a SATA 3 600 MB/s interface. The latency will be slightly faster with the iRAM but the fact that you are limited to 4GB and it loses any info as soon as it's powered off make it about useless. Not sure what you could put on it that would see gains from it.

I'm not sure what problems you think an SSD has but even the technically lower write capable MLC Samsung 840 Evo will last more years than any other component in your computer. I have the 500GB version and if I was to write 50GB a day to it the drive is officially projected to last 30 years! And the drives have proven in real testing to last almost double official estimates! Not to mention MLC by nature has fewer cycles than TLC like the 840 Pro has. So if endurance is an issue get the 840 Pro.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7173/samsung-ssd-840-evo-review-120gb-250gb-500gb-750gb-1tb-models-tested/3

 

[alienworkshop]

why would people say it's faster? anyways, okay, a sata regular drive has 3 gigs too but i don't see that saturating the whole interface. i just asked for benches that's all. are you sure it's faster? access times and read times is what i'm interested in. the first ssd's had problems and from the benches it says iram wins. i have the link right here. anyway, i'm sticking to iram since i don't need the space. i don't see any proof that ssd is faster.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/ssd-iram.html

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Benchmark from 2008 comparing it to first generation 32GB and 64GB SSDs. That is beyond obsolete in computer years. That test was done on a Pentium 4 machine with XP. And you are confusing the interface on a mechanical drive being SATA 3 with the real world performance of a SSD being able to saturate that interface completely. There is already a new SATA standard planned because SSDs have reached the limit of SATA 3.

The article you linked to shows the iRAM losing to a 15,000 RPM server drive. Any modern SSD will destroy a 15,000RPM drive or any other mechanical drive. Even my 3 year old 120GB OCZ Vertex 2 is faster than any hard drive and it's practically an antique by SSD standards.

Look at sequential reads and writes.
iRAM gets about 120MB/s sequential read.
The slowest SSD on the Anandtech list gets 289.1MB/s
The fastest SSD gets 437.6MB/s

Sequential writes.
iRAM gets about 110MB/s
Slowest SSD 139.6MB/s
Fastest SSD 384.4MB/s

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7173/samsung-ssd-840-evo-review-120gb-250gb-500gb-750gb-1tb-models-tested/8

Just using your link and the link I provided to Anandtech will let you compare directly. Sequential reads and writes only tell a very small part of the story as you have to analyze queue depth and IOPS as well as the type of data, compressible or uncompressible. Trust me the iRAM is obsolete and about useless. There is a reason Gigabyte never made newer models of it.