The OCZ Vertex 3 Thread

SteveOBHave · 7 Apr 2011 at 10:38

wolvers said:
So the SATA3 controller on X58 boards is crippling the speeds of these drives? Gutted, I won't bother getting one then.

Only on the Marvel controlled S3 ports - on the INTEL ones it's fine.

nicRob · 7 Apr 2011 at 10:48

There is no intel sata3 ports on X58 boards afaik, only P67

SteveOBHave · 7 Apr 2011 at 10:51

nicRob said:
There is no intel sata3 ports on X58 boards afaik, only P67

ah true - my bad.

HEADRAT · 7 Apr 2011 at 11:09

Building:-

Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz
2x XFX ATI Radeon 6950
Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 Intel P67 Chipset
G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
Vertex3 SSD 240GB

over the weekend, will post some benches once my new rig is up and running.

HEADRAT

geuben · 7 Apr 2011 at 11:13

HEADRAT said:
Building:-

Intel Core i7-2600K 3.40GHz
2x XFX ATI Radeon 6950
Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 Intel P67 Chipset
G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3
Vertex3 SSD 240GB

over the weekend, will post some benches once my new rig is up and running.

HEADRAT

With the exception of the GFX cards that what I will be using when my 120GB arrives. Currently running on a old 250GB mechanical.

Shaddow · 7 Apr 2011 at 11:27

Mnemonik said:
Sure, google is your friend. Plenty of information on the Marvel controller being crap for SSDs:

http://www.guru3d.com/article/ocz-vertex-3-pro-review/13

I'd give moving the F3's to the Marvel ports to free up the Intel Sata3. I'm not sure if the RAID will follow over though, it's worth a try. Make sure you do a full backup before attempting in case it does something funky and destroys your data.

Just what I was looking for thanks

Looks like I will be moving over to the Intel shortly. Hopefully the Raid0 F3's wont suffer too much.

rjk · 7 Apr 2011 at 11:49

Testbed Specs:
Intel Core i7 2600k @ 4.6GHz
16GB Corsair XMS3 1600MHz
Asus P67
Intel 40GB SSD Boot Drive

single drive results look a bit slow on CDM - not sure whats going on there :confused:

single drives are on the 6gbps controller and not the marvel

Single Drive Benchmarks:

RAID 0 Benchmarks:

Shaddow · 7 Apr 2011 at 12:10

rjkoneill

Could you do a HDTune bench so I could compare?

Thanks

wolvers · 7 Apr 2011 at 12:21

Blimey, the write speeds of the Marvell controller are a disaster! What a load of old ****.

wolvers · 7 Apr 2011 at 12:22

rjkoneill said:
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What stripe size did you use for the RAID0 and is that on the Intel SATA3 controller?

rjk · 7 Apr 2011 at 12:32

rjkoneill said:
single drives are on the 6gbps controller and not the marvel
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wolvers said:

Blimey, the write speeds of the Marvell controller are a disaster! What a load of old ****.

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wolvers · 7 Apr 2011 at 12:56

I was looking at a link that was posted before yours.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/ocz-vertex-3-pro-review/13

deusexlumina · 7 Apr 2011 at 12:58

I'd still be pleased by that! nearly 1gb read rates! holy quick OS load batman!

how long does it take for you to get to desktop from cold boot?

in theory it should be about 8/9 seconds. A few in BIOS, and then windows loading into RAM is probs a max of 3gb ie 3-4 seconds.

nicRob · 7 Apr 2011 at 13:19

wolvers said:
I was looking at a link that was posted before yours.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/ocz-vertex-3-pro-review/13

Those results are strange, I get:

With my Marvell controller, slower then the newer Intel ones, but still much better then in that review.

NathWraith · 7 Apr 2011 at 13:30

Nearly 1000MB/s! Immense

wolvers · 7 Apr 2011 at 15:20

nicRob said:
Those results are strange, I get:

With my Marvell controller, slower then the newer Intel ones, but still much better then in that review.

Looks like you're getting better writes and very slightly better reads, but even still it's not getting the full potential out of the drive. I think I'd rather buy a pair of 2E's.

HEADRAT · 7 Apr 2011 at 16:04

rjkoneill said:
single drive results

Is that a single 120GB or 240GB?

Mnemonik · 7 Apr 2011 at 16:13

Looks a bit slow doesn't it? I wonder why when the RAID0 results are so quick.

HEADRAT · 7 Apr 2011 at 16:26

That's why I wondered if the test was a 120GB drive, the 240GB drive is faster than the 120GB:-

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4256/the-ocz-vertex-3-review-120gb/5

HEADRAT

Hutchy · 7 Apr 2011 at 17:33

Anyone got any ideas how to make this work properly using the U3S6 PCI bridge?

I'm getting about half the speed I should be, installed the latest drivers for the controller, I'm hoping there might be a bios setting I've missed.

When I boot up it detects the SSD and says it's in Sata 6GB/s mode.

Motherboard = P6T Deluxe