The sorry state of Windows 7 gaming

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Kingston V+ 128GB SSD vs Seagate 146GB 15K.6 SAS

I am getting ready to upgrade to Windows 7. I will do it replacing my hard drives. I am down to two drives.

$349 each
Kingston V+ SSD 128GB
220MB/s reads
110MB/s writes
2-3 year warranty


vs

$180 each
Seagate 146GB 15K.6 SAS
171MB/s outer
110MB/s inner
5 year warranty

They will go on my LSI Logic MegaRAID 8708EM2 128MB DDR667 battery cached RAID controller in RAID 1. I am leaning towards the SAS drives because of the cost and they are not that much slower than the SSD.

My current Seagate 146GB 2.5" Savvio 10K.6 drives
89MB/s outer
55MB/s inner.

Either drive will at least 2x the performance.

My current RAID 1 using Seagate 146GB 2.5" Savvio 10K.6 drives
Benchmark Results
Drive Index : 104.84MB/s
Results Interpretation : Higher index values are better.
Random Access Time : 1ms
Results Interpretation : Lower index values are better.

Windows Experience Index
Current Drive : 5.9
Results Interpretation : Higher index values are better.

Performance Test Status
Run ID : LSI MegaRAID 8708EM2 146GB (RAID, NCQ)
Platform Compliance : x64
System Timer : 3.58MHz
Operating System Disk Cache Used : Yes
Use Overlapped I/O : Yes
I/O Queue Depth : 4 request(s)
Test File Size : 16GB
File Fragments : 4
Block Size : 1MB

Detailed Benchmark Results
Buffered Read : 1.01GB/s
Sequential Read : 119.73MB/s
Random Read : 128.25MB/s
Buffered Write : 679.29MB/s
Sequential Write : 31.91MB/s
Random Write : 31.21MB/s
Random Access Time : 1ms

Has anyone used the V+ SSD drives? I heard Windows 7 is optimized for them. I know how the SAS drives will work. I was planning on two sets of RAID 1. Four drives in a Coolermaster HAF chassis.

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eSet (NOD32) Corporate anti-virus: Don't use!

I installed eSET (NOD32) Corporate. It has been nothing but problems.

1.) None of the global exclusions work. You can't put *.log, *.wlog. You have to exclude the entire path.
2.) No browse button on exclusion list. You have type everything
3.) eSet starts doing real time scans without being scheduled. Two servers crashed. Active Directory server lost a user account. 32-bit SQL Server is missing registry entries for SQL. I have to deattach all the databases and uninstall/reinstall SQL 2005.
4.) realtime scans slow workstations and servers to a crawl
5.) I asked 10+ times to speak with a manager. They don't call back or want to talk to me

I put it on about 4 weeks ago. Every server started locking up due to the realtime scans going off. They were only scheduled for 1AM Sunday morning. It had 60% false positives on detections. Let a Trojan horse through it detected.

I downloaded Symantec Endpoint. It installed with no problem. Realtime scans don't slow down the servers. It detects Exchange and configures for it. The exclusions are working for SQL databases, and Exchange.

New Build

24GB 1333 FSB Reg. ECC Triple Channel
MEM-DR340L-IL01-ER13 SUPER MICRO Computer - 4GB DDR3 1333 ECC REG-ROHS D-SHIP NO RETURN QIM   6 $126.02 $756.12

Supermicro X8DAH+-F $529
2 processor - LGA1366 Socket
18 memory ( 1.5 V ) - DIMM 240-pin
2 PCI Express 2.0 x16
1 PCI Express 2.0 x16 ( x8 mode )
3 PCI Express 2.0 x8
1 PCI Express x4

6 modules allows 1333 MHz FSB triple channel mode in Nehalem-EP memory manager. Supports up to 24 GB 1333/1066/800MHz DDR3 unbuffered memory. I am checking on this....