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Hi everyone, I received one of the new OCZ Agility 3 SSD's today and I thought I would share some benchmark results with you. The SSD is connected to one of the Intel SATA 6Gbps ports on my MSI P67A-GD65. Benchmark used was ATTO.
OCZ Agility 3 Benchmark Results
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Thats pretty damn fast! Mighty impressive drive!!! 
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AS SSD benchmarks?
Ermm yeah...
Good or bad? I don't know but I'm sure I read that AS SSD doesn't play nicely with Sandforce controllers.
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Hmmm... thats not right... First bench looks correct, that does not.
Will report back
It's prob working correctly, but we all know that OCZ only shine in ATTO benchmarks.
Im not getting the speeds i thought i might:-
Crystal Disk Mark 3.0.1x64 - 5x1000mb tests
SEQ 169.3 - 75.68
512K 161.2 - 75.59
4K 17.22 - 26.62
4Kqd32 48.71 - 73.76
BTW my sig is out of date, i cant seem to edit it.
my system gx660r 8gb mem, win7x64 latest drivers and stuff
I know my board is only sataII but would hope i would max out the bus at +280 read/write
maybe i need to fix something?
Crystal Disk Mark 3.0.1x64 - 5x1000mb tests
SEQ 169.3 - 75.68
512K 161.2 - 75.59
4K 17.22 - 26.62
4Kqd32 48.71 - 73.76
BTW my sig is out of date, i cant seem to edit it.
my system gx660r 8gb mem, win7x64 latest drivers and stuff
I know my board is only sataII but would hope i would max out the bus at +280 read/write
maybe i need to fix something?
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Right i'll be purchasing an SSD over the next month and this seems by far the best spec for the money however i only have SATA-II connections. But a few questions...
A: Is SATA-III backwards compatible with SATA-II?
B: If it is what sort of speeds am i looking to get as they obviously wont be as fast as SATA-III
I am hoping to upgrade motherboard, RAM and CPU when i have the funds so i would like something that's fairly future proof.
A: Is SATA-III backwards compatible with SATA-II?
B: If it is what sort of speeds am i looking to get as they obviously wont be as fast as SATA-III
I am hoping to upgrade motherboard, RAM and CPU when i have the funds so i would like something that's fairly future proof.
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Ermm yeah...
Good or bad? I don't know but I'm sure I read that AS SSD doesn't play nicely with Sandforce controllers.
The result above is near as matters the same as I'm getting (standard Intel SATA on P5Q-E).
If this benchmark is to believed then my 64GB Crucial C300 has much faster read speeds, and only slightly slower write speeds.
One annoying thing I found was that the screw holes on one side of my new Agility 3 haven't been threaded.
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Hmm, I'm starting to wonder if I've got a problem with mine. I've had the PC lock up 3 times now since yesterday. The HDD light goes solid red and nothing responds other than the mouse cursor.
Edit: Its just done it again.
Edit: Its just done it again.
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Aaah, its gone and locked up again. 
Going to RMA it if this carries on.
Going to RMA it if this carries on.
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Aaah, its gone and locked up again.
Sounds a lot like the problem some people were having with their Vertex 3 drives, if it is you should be able to solve it with a few tweaks (check the OCZ forums).
Right that's it, I've gone back to my "old" Vertex SSD as this Agility 3 is starting to lock up more frequently now Looks like I'll have to set up an RMA.
Looks like I'll have to set up an RMA.
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Right that's it, I've gone back to my "old" Vertex SSD as this Agility 3 is starting to lock up more frequently now
If it's what I described in the post above then getting another unit ain't gonna help you.
Yeah, just had a quick look and it seems to be something to do with the firmware, Intel RST drivers and having to mess around in the registry. Thats for the Vertex 3 so I suppose it would be similar for the Agility 3. That's if that's what your describing?