I picked up a black 16G 900 Windows XP edition from Best Buy the other day.
I knew that the 16GB ssd is slower than the smaller ones found in the other eee models but i thought I would buy it and see how it goes, knowing i have two weeks to return it.

Overall, I like it.  There are definitely times where the machine freezes up for a few seconds and I am wondering if these are due to the slower SSD or because the eee in general is a low powered machine.  If it is because of the SSD I think I may return it and get another model.

I tested puppeee linux, eeexubuntu and Ubuntu 8.04 booting from an SD card.
They ran quite a bit faster than XP.  Ubuntu in particular was impressive since, unlike the other two, it had sound enabled right away.  Flash sites like hulu and vimeo (with HD turned off) worked great and multi-tasking seemed fine, as in nearly equal to my Dell Inspiron 1501.
Since these distros were running off of a ram disk i wonder if not having to touch the SSD was allowing them to sail along.
I am reluctant to intal linux onto the SSD because i do not own an external dvd drive to run the restore disk off of, if i decide to return it. (anybody know if the restore dvd can be copied to an SD card and run from there?  I used Unetbootin to transfer a copy of the DVD's iso to the SD card but it wouldnt boot from it.)

Since I dont have much experience with any other Eee's aside from a 4G display model at Microcenter, I am posting the results of benchmarks I ran to see if other Eee users have observed similar stats.

3dmark03: 479


HD Tune Pro - avg read 47.1MB/sec


ATTO Disk Benchmark


HD Tach - 56.4MB/sec


WPrime - 32M speed test 194 seconds


Crystalmark:

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CrystalMark Result
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   Display Mode : 1024 x 600 32bit (ClearType)

    CrystalMark :   20560

[ ALU ]              3360
      Fibonacci :    1271
      Napierian :     610
   Eratosthenes :     521
      QuickSort :     936
[ FPU ]              4135
        MikoFPU :     393
     RandMeanSS :    2287
            FFT :     714
     Mandelbrot :     719
[ MEM ]              2761
           Read : 1299.57 MB/s (  1299)
          Write :  550.69 MB/s (   550)
     Read/Write :  537.10 MB/s (   537)
          Cache : 3532.16 MB/s (   353)
[ HDD ]              3958
           Read :   29.38 MB/s (  1175)
          Write :   11.32 MB/s (   452)
 RandomRead512K :   29.31 MB/s (  1172)
RandomWrite512K :    1.87 MB/s (    74)
 RandomRead 64K :   26.83 MB/s (  1073)
RandomWrite 64K :    0.31 MB/s (    12)
[ GDI ]              2766
           Text :    1114
         Square :     517
         Circle :     733
         BitBlt :     402
[ D2D ]              2842
   Sprite    10 :  230.46 FPS  (    23)
   Sprite   100 :  184.17 FPS  (   184)
   Sprite   500 :   96.50 FPS  (   482)
   Sprite  1000 :   60.41 FPS  (   604)
   Sprite  5000 :   15.21 FPS  (   760)
   Sprite 10000 :    7.89 FPS  (   789)
[ OGL ]               738
  Scene 1 Score :     497
  Lines (x1000) : (  41904)
  Scene 1  CPUs : (      8)
  Scene 2 Score :     241
Polygons(x1000) : (   5101)
  Scene 2  CPUs : (      4)

detailed Crystalmark output


Also I tested the SD card reader with a Transcend 4gb 150x sd card:

HD Tune Pro - avg read 20.6MB/sec


ATTO Disk Benchmark

Compare the write speed here with the eee's ssd above.  Am I reading this correct? The SD card can be written to a bit more than 2x as fast as the internal SSD?

Are there any other benchmarks you would like to see run on my eee?

Any thoughts?

edit: added links to the screenshots

Last edited by MrFlakes (2008-07-18 3:43:53 pm)