music on intel ssd

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miatadan

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music on intel ssd
« on: 28 Feb 2012, 01:34 am »
 :D I transferred music from Seagate Momentus Solid State Hybrid hard drive 500GB 32MB 7200 rpm to Intel X25-M 120GB Solid State hard drive.  This used to be my boot drive in computer I built last summer. Decided since Windows 7 was only using 18gb out of 111gb available on Intel X25-M drive. I decided to put in Intel 320 series 80gb drive as boot drive. Over-Provisioned this drive to available space 48.8gb and 25.7gb unallocated. According to Intel white paper this increases performance and endurance gains .

The biggest surprise is that bass response seems better and better dynamic range. Can not think of technical reason why ssd would be better sounding than regular hard drives. Anyone know of reason why there to performance difference to using ssd?

Dan

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Re: music on intel ssd
« Reply #1 on: 28 Feb 2012, 05:20 am »
Which enclosure did you use with the two HDDs?  If it's different then I would assume it's the power supplies noise, but maybe it's the voltage regulators used on the HDD causing noise as well.   Otherwise, there is no difference on the digital side, when the BDP reads the files from the HDD, it's still data and doesn't become music until it hits the sound card.

setamp

Re: music on intel ssd
« Reply #2 on: 3 Mar 2012, 03:57 pm »
Which enclosure are you using?  I am looking for a good enclosure to replace my oyen digital?