my western digital velociraptor is faster then my ssd?

[Brycetimothydavis]

i have a Samsung 840 pro as my main drive and a western digital velociraptor as my second drive i have noticed the western digital velociraptor runs quite a bit faster then the ssd. yet this would seam counter productive. how is it a drive that has been in production since at least 2012 maybe before faster then something that claims to be faster then any hdd on the market. i can not justify the cost of an ssd when the western digital velociraptor runs so much faster. this is just in my personal experience however but i would like to know other peoples views on this issue.

is an ssd really worth it compared to a drive that for a 1/5th of the price can run rings around it and be 4 times the size.

 

[USAFRet]

Back to your original issue...the SSD.

Please run the Samsung Magician, and post a screencap of the Performance Benchmark.

This is from my 840 EVO:

 

[Pinhedd]

i have 2 1500 watt psu's the system draws 2200 watts idle due to my cooling setup and lighting and such. didn't relise that the psu the ssd was on was drawing 1494 watts idle. would explain why when the fans fire up and such the ssd speeds drop dramatically

Yeah... no it's not. 2,200 watts is enough to power two space heaters.

That much power draw will bring a litre of water from room temperature (20 degrees centigrade) to boiling (100 degrees centigrade) in two and a half minutes.

 

[USAFRet]

i have 2 corsair ax1500i's one is about a year old the other is around 3 months old.

Could we get a screencap of that software showing the power draw?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

i have 2 1500 watt psu's the system draws 2200 watts idle due to my cooling setup and lighting and such. didn't relise that the psu the ssd was on was drawing 1494 watts idle. would explain why when the fans fire up and such the ssd speeds drop dramatically

Yeah... no it's not. 2,200 watts is enough to power two space heaters.

That much power draw will bring a litre of water from room temperature (20 degrees centigrade) to boiling (100 degrees centigrade) in two and a half minutes.

Yeah, but you're in 110V-land.

Space heaters are typically up to 2.3kW here/in Aus.

 

[USAFRet]

i have 2 1500 watt psu's the system draws 2200 watts idle due to my cooling setup and lighting and such. didn't relise that the psu the ssd was on was drawing 1494 watts idle. would explain why when the fans fire up and such the ssd speeds drop dramatically

Yeah... no it's not. 2,200 watts is enough to power two space heaters.

That much power draw will bring a litre of water from room temperature (20 degrees centigrade) to boiling (100 degrees centigrade) in two and a half minutes.

Yeah, but you're in 110V-land.

Space heaters are typically up to 2.3kW here/in Aus.

I have 2 x 1500 watt oil space heaters (110V-land). Almost, but not quite enough, to heat a 1,800 sq ft 2 story house in the dead of winter. -2C daytime high. 1 upstairs, 1 downstairs.

 

[giantbucket]

i use one of those IR tube heaters, and with 400W per tube, one tube is often enough in a 200 sq ft room in really cold winters (-30C outside). sometimes both tubes and it's quite cozy, almost like a fireplace. the orange glow helps too.

but there's no way any (single) hard drive should be faster than even a junky ssd. the access time alone should be 10X faster, as should just about any small-file operation. even if the drive isn't in AHCI mode.

screenshots of CrystalDiskMark benchmarks for SSD and VR?

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Power, firewood, and coal were historically very abundant here in NZ, and Aus is largely hot - cooling would have been more of a priority there.

As such, at least in NZ, insulation was never a big priority (and probably quite hard to manufacture) when colonisation started in the sub-tropics, and they just threw more energy at the problem when people started moving south. Changing now, though.

 

[RealBeast]

I had four WD Raptors in RAID 0 years back for my OS drive and then swapped them out for an Intel 80GB X25M (when they were around $500 each) and it blew the Raptor array away in all but large sequential files, which are infrequent for an OS drive.

That was a very early consumer SSD, but to this day it slaves away as a scratch drive with hundreds of TB written and it is still faster than your 840 Pro, so you have a problem with that drive.

If you have completely filled the drive you may need to do a secure erase to get it back up to its potential.

I won't even comment on the power supply issue, that's just silly.