[zflashpoint]

Hello,

We developed a device driver for Windows XP, which can accelerate SSD write performance.
We have been doing open beta test from mid March.

We tested four Netbooks: Acer aspire One 16G SSD, Asus eee1000 8G SSD (C drive), Dell mini 9 16G SSD and HP 1010 8G SSD.

Official Web Site: FlashFire: SSD Accelerator

[jmbattle]

This looks very interesting, however the Dell Mini 9 benchmarks suggest that performance deteriorates with the driver installed.

Cheers,
James
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[Zion]

Hi guys,

I went over to the forums to get feedback on this and I don't know how it does it but write speeds are MUCH faster. However, it does sacrifice some of the read speeds. I tried this on my brother's Mini 9 with an 8GB STEC drive. Mini 9 feels much better now, wow.... Here are ATTO benchmarks before and after.





I am going to try this on my 32GB RunCore...

[loooney2ns]

My only question is will this work with Windows 7? I don't intend on going back to XP, so I hope it will!

[hgallegos915]

I installed it on mine and it made a WORLD of a difference with the way pages load online. I love my mini even more now.

[Zion]

Hi everyone,

Tested this now on my Mini 9 with my 32GB RunCore SSD. Impressive results!

[MilanoRex]

I tried it on my xp pro install, 32GB Buffalo ssd.. read unchanged(68MB) write speed was cut in half! I went from 30's to 10-12! Uninstalling ASAP

[Caliber Mengsk]

While it may boost performance, my question is, how does it effect endurance. How many less read/write cycles do you get from this improved performance? How much does it effect battery life due to requiring more power for the chips to run faster? How much does it increase the temperature of the chips over an extended period of time?

New tech is always great, but modifying something to be faster ALWAYS creates more heat if you haven't changed the components at all. Just be cautious people. (I'm not saying don't use it... These are just questions I have. What good is it to go that fast if you have to replace it 6 months down the line every time?)

[SkyWriter]

more than likely this is just a write buffering app using dram memory for a write cache. this delays writes by buffering for a limited time. this is probably what is disturbing reads during the disk benchmark by attempting to perform the delayed writes it is impacting the read portion of the test. another reason hard disk benchmarks are poor measures of flash disk performance - the assumptions they makes about the device they are measuring are wrong for flash based SSD.

a large write buffer increases your chances of disk data corruption if uncommitted writes are lost do to system hang, power fail, operating system bug, application bug, etc...

[lancorp]

Agreed. That Flashpoint isn't making anything run faster or hotter. Not really possible to change the clocking (speed) of either the RAM or the SSD. And, if you did, reads AND writes would be faster, not just one. So all they are doing is caching the writes (which, I assume, is using some amount of your FREE RAM???).

Interesting that with some people, things got worse!