Here is a retest of the OCZ Vertex 4.  I did a secure earase and then waited one hour.  I copied the test files (25.8 MB) to the SSD and ran the benchmark.  The results of writing the 12.0 GB  AVI file is 43 seconds.  Maybe I need to wait 24 hours before I run the test.  By the way we have test results on PPBM5 from over 100 users using a SSD for the project files on a somewhat similar test that a vast majority do not show this abnormal result. ... View more

All the files were on the SSD; project, source and output files.  Any idea of how long you would have to wait before it is ready to be used? ... View more

VHC-CO-IT wrote: Also, that entire test said "out of the box" and didn't say anything about updating the firmware.  Well, there's your problem. And this data is from June 25th, which is before the 1.5 firmware was even released so they weren't using it for the test.  It even says, they used the 1.4 firmware.  That's at least 2 versions ago.  1.4 even had drive detection problems in the BIOS.  It was useless!  Any benchmark using it is wrong. Also, OCZ's own website claims they already fixed this sort of problem in the changelog for 1.5, likely by telling the wear leveling to ignore files over a certain size or to terminate wear leveling chip write count searching after a certain time period or by limiting the period of time for processing to change over into bulk storage mode. Also, read speed never degrades on any drive ever. Also, other manufacturers don't have this specific problem anyway as long as they do garbage collection (except Kingston).  But as the final page states, this isn't a problem, it's a feature and it only affects the drives for a couple minutes after doing something stupid like filling it half full with data all at once. If you read the final page..."Effectively what this means is that drives that are less than half full will enjoy further optimized performance and after crossing more than half full the garbage collection algorithm will re-optimize the drive for maximum efficiency based on a larger data footprint. During this transition there may be a small latency hit, but this is a onetime event, and overall performance quickly improves as the drive is now optimized for the larger amount of storage." It's a one time deal.  Like I said, you write a sequential 50-60GB data file, it gets a little confused about what you're using the drive for and re-optimizes itself the maintain the best speed BUT only temporarily until the firmware adapts and then it operates at full speed again.  From the article: "From our observations on a partitioned drive, “storage mode” is encountered when sustained write activity exceeds 50% of the available free space."  So if you slowly fill the drive up over a month, it won't do that. And the biggest also is also, Premiere cache drives are usually around 100% empty lol.  They're cache drives.  They cache stuff, not store it long term I cannot tell if these comments were meant for me as you were replying to Harm.  I said nothing about "out of the box"  on the SSD testing--I specifically stated that the drive I got was firmware 1.5 and therefore I did not have to update it.  Also our PPBM5 test running in Premiere does write a 13 GB file.  so their so called fix would never be usefull as a Premiere Project file location. ... View more

In my post above where I gave details on my SSD benchmarking failure those 2 TB drives are the 7200.14 (ST2000M001)  I now have 5 of those drives and 4 0f the 500 GB version.  They all are working well and show no signs of any problems and they are excellent performers. ... View more

VHC-CO-IT wrote: Btw, OCZ's 1-3 products SUCK!!!!!!!! Their 4's are nice though.  They bought out Indillinx to use their new Everest controller and now developed a new 2.0 Everest controller for their new drives.  It basically builds a RAID array inside the flash chip array inside the drive so if one fails, it can warn you but not destroy your data.  They're also REALLY fast and use low voltage rewrites so you get like 9000+ write cycles instead of 4000-ish from other brands. I happened to pick up an OCZ Vertex 4 and wanted to test it with a real application;  This application is a derivative of the Disk I/O part of PPBM5 test but much improved.  I checked the SSD and it was the latest firmware.version 1.5 so I did not have to update.  Here are typical results with different hard disk drive results with my benchmark: 8 x 146GB SAS 15,000rpm R0  9 seconds 2 x 2 TB SATA III 7200 rpm R0 20 seconds 1 x 2 TB SATA III 7200 rpm       68 seconds OK the first try I recorded a fairly decent score of 13 seconds but the next 5 trials were 45, 42, 45, 51, 41 so I decided to do a secure erase with the OCZ tool.and then I got 104 seconds and 165 seconds.  Now this SSD while a good price is on its way back to the dealer ASAP.  I hope they will allow me the purchase price on a good old-fashioned hard drive! ... View more

VHC-CO-IT wrote: Oh but by the way, that entire chart is also complete nonsense considering every single option there would be cheaper and run as fast or faster with a high performance SSD as a temp/cache drive for basically anything.  A Patriot Pyro, Intel Maplecrest 330, or Kingston HyperX can all read at 500MB/s+ and write respectably fast too.  It'd take a bare minimum or 4 striped 7200RPM drives to match that read speed alone.  A single SSD can beat an entire RAID array easily, almost regardless of what's contained in it and if it can't, that's because the array cost 5x more Until your write performance drops to nothing very quickly ... View more

If you mean Micron, it is because they were not delivering low voltage chips as required by the LGA 2011 CPU's.  Maybe by now they have "seen the light". ... View more

When looking at our PPBM5 test results the first thing that should be done is filter it to look at the correct CS version as each are different as far as scoring goes ... View more