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strontiumsg said:
According to the reviewer,

"If you are using it as a primary drive or it's not in a fresh out of the box state that could be the reason why the drive is slower. Also they runs secure erase between benchmark tests. "

Hope your query is clear now
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Thanks for the replies.
Ran it through a few sessions of gaming yesterday, couldn't feel any difference against my old SSD, not bad afterall.
 
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Jhyun said:
Thanks for the replies.
Ran it through a few sessions of gaming yesterday, couldn't feel any difference against my old SSD, not bad afterall.
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Correct if I'm wrong, I believe most review websites run the SSD as secondary drives for benchmarking.

When you run benchmark on OS drive, sometimes background services may have slight impact on the scores.

Also Sandforce is supposedly more aggressive than other controllers when it comes to GC.
 
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Jhyun said:
Thanks for the replies.
Ran it through a few sessions of gaming yesterday, couldn't feel any difference against my old SSD, not bad afterall.
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Good to know that the product is performing well and meeting your expectations... this is indeed a best offering from Strontium
 
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xonix said:
Correct if I'm wrong, I believe most review websites run the SSD as secondary drives for benchmarking.

When you run benchmark on OS drive, sometimes background services may have slight impact on the scores.

Also Sandforce is supposedly more aggressive than other controllers when it comes to GC.
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Sounds reasonable, on hindsight I should have done that, but probably wasn't expecting much difference since SSDs are unlike rotational media.
 
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Strontium HAWK SSD

New online promotion for Strontium HAWK SSD. 120GB @ 85US$ only. Check out details and payment information here.
 
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adrianlee said:
Plextor M5 Pro 256GB SSD Review
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Corsair Neutron GTX 240GB RAID 0 TRIM SSD Review
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patiently waiting for Samsung 840 :D
 
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sonic said:
Hi, promo till when? Any promo for 240GB? Prefer the 240GB..:D
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Promo is for the entire month of October. We had a promotion for 240GB last month.. Now not sure when we can come up with another one. The current one runs for this month full...
 
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Can we join up 2 or more SSDs in Windows 8 to form the C drive?

Anyone tried the RAID support for SSDs in series 7 motherboards? I considering creating a pure SSD video editing rig. Anyone here with the experience to share?
 
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Guys,

Currently i am using a hdd as my main drive, but I will be getting my SSD tomorrow and I intend to use my ssd as my main drive while leaving my HDD OS intact in case my SSD OS fails.

If I were to connect both to my mobo, what will happen? How do i make my SSD boot by default and not my HDD? Also are there any pre windows installation setup for my SSD? I read somewhere that must enable trim, ARHC or something right?

Thanks
 
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bladez87 said:
Guys,

Currently i am using a hdd as my main drive, but I will be getting my SSD tomorrow and I intend to use my ssd as my main drive while leaving my HDD OS intact in case my SSD OS fails.

If I were to connect both to my mobo, what will happen? How do i make my SSD boot by default and not my HDD? Also are there any pre windows installation setup for my SSD? I read somewhere that must enable trim, ARHC or something right?

Thanks
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BIOS > Boot Priority:

1) SSD
2) HDD

Read: Optimization Guides - The SSD Review The SSD Review
 
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strontiumsg said:
Promo is for the entire month of October. We had a promotion for 240GB last month.. Now not sure when we can come up with another one. The current one runs for this month full...
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Hawk 240GB SSD? What was the promo deal?
 
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