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I received the same mail and they asked me if I would prefer a laptop installation kit or a desktop one. Did they ask you the same?? I chose a laptop one what did you choose? 
My entry was"SSD or Samsung Snap Drive is what you need to get your system going Blazing fast."
Message edited by spidey180 on 01-18-2012 at 11:46:11 PM
Well,
Because of getting the emails, Im guessing i won too. 
All seriousness, yes i'm one of the winners as well. Although I didn't even think i was going to be selected as a winner. I just entered it for fun (as normally i dont win anything 
).
If memory severs right: I put in "A ssd is like a flash drive on an Adrenalin rush that stays on the inside of the computer" or something close to that.
Although now i need to accelerate my plans of a desktop rebuild. Have 1 dead desktop and no other computers with Sata 6Gb/s ports on them..... (well the desktop didn't even have sata 3 Gb/s but it's in the process of being replaced.... so i'll have sata 6Gb/s soon enough. 
)
| Quote : Congratulations to all the other winners! And for those who didn't win better luck next time. I won too!! By the way any idea as to when will the prize ship?? |
Well, from the email...
| Quote : I want to apologise for the delay and thank you for your patience, I will follow up with another message on the date of despatch |
So they haven't sent it out yet but there in the pocess of getting things together. 
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| spidey180 wrote : Hey guys any news on the shipment?? I haven't received any. |
nope. Nothing yet. still waiting for the same news. 
| warmon6 wrote : well check your email now! the being shipped! although he didn't say there arrival dated. |
I checked my e-mail didn't get any such message. 
When is the e-mail dated? The last one I received was on the 20th.
| spidey180 wrote : I checked my e-mail didn't get any such message. |
according to my gmail, it was 6 hours ago at 12:59 PM EST
| warmon6 wrote : according to my gmail, it was 6 hours ago at 12:59 PM EST |
Thanks for the quick reply didn't get anything yet!
| spidey180 wrote : Thanks for the quick reply didn't get anything yet! |
Well i guess since I'm frequently on toms, I naturally give a quick response. to something.
Message edited by warmon6 on 01-26-2012 at 02:03:22 AM
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Were on tom's front page!
Although now everyone can figure out names.........
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^Wow this is totally awesome!!
Looking forward for more such worldwide contests!!
Well, just got the ssd in the mail!
I'll need retake these photo's at another time (tired ATM) but here she is!
Rest of the photo's are in this album.
http://s760.photobucket.com/albums [...] ung%20ssd/
Sorry for the blurry photo's. There quick shots as still trying to do some other things atm.
I'll do some benchmarks in a bit (although only at sata 3Gb/s for now) with out an OS on it. (plan on putting it in a future desktop build that's not to far out)
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Cool pics over there I see!!
Looking forward to the benches !!
Will post mine too , I'm on a laptop with 3Gb/s sata interface!
| spidey180 wrote : Cool pics over there I see!! |
Well, ran into a hitch on the benches. Turns out that the esata port on my dad laptop only runs at 1.5 Gb/s sata instead of 3Gb/s. (just goes to show that most HDD's cant use sata 1 all the way yet.)
So i was only topping about 120~125 MB/s reads.
Although i can say i was getting 0.3 MS access times.
Guess i'll have to wait giving benches untill i've order my desktop.
Message edited by warmon6 on 02-02-2012 at 12:17:19 PM
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Well here is a quick bench on my 3Gb/s laptop.
Seq reads:259MB/s writes:242MB/s
4K reads:13MB/s writes:25MB/s
4K-64 reads:171MB/s writes:72MB/s
Acc. Time reads:0.174ms writes
The 4K reads and writes look pretty bad
Is there anything I can do?
I have the latest bios, drivers, firmware, all the SSD specific optimization's done!
P.S. Did you update the firmware of your SSD. Mine came with revision 02. The latest one is 03.
| spidey180 wrote : Well here is a quick bench on my 3Gb/s laptop.
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Not yet. Im probably going to wait until i build my desktop to mess with that stuff.
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| spidey180 wrote : Well here is a quick bench on my 3Gb/s laptop.
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Well, i decide to test out the ssd inside my laptop. Didn't install an OS, just ran Ubuntu 11.04 off a usb drive.
For seq reads (only did read bench ubuntu has), i got similar stats as you did. Same with Acc. times.
Writing i'll hold off until there an OS on it.
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