Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB - What am I doing wrong?

rocketman · 9 Mar 2010 at 23:10

Surely it should be faster than this? :confused:

Cosimo · 10 Mar 2010 at 00:07

It should be faster, mine are these:

I did install the Marvell SATA 3 drivers for my controller

Your board also has a Marvell controller, have you done the same?

My controller is also set to AHCI.

The driver is here:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/...?ProductID=3234&ost=windows+7+64bit#anchor_os

EDIT: Is it plugged into a SATA 3 socket?

rocketman · 10 Mar 2010 at 00:28

simulatorman said:
It should be faster, mine are these:

I did install the Marvell SATA 3 drivers for my controller

Your board also has a Marvell controller, have you done the same?

My controller is also set to AHCI.

The driver is here:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/...?ProductID=3234&ost=windows+7+64bit#anchor_os

EDIT: Is it plugged into a SATA 3 socket?

I've already installed this, but the drive isn't being controlled by it. Yes it is plugged in to a SATA 3 socket :confused:

Cosimo · 10 Mar 2010 at 00:35

rocketman said:
I've already installed this, but the drive isn't being controlled by it. Yes it is plugged in to a SATA 3 socket

So what is it being controlled by?

rocketman · 10 Mar 2010 at 00:52

The bog-standard MS driver :confused:

jakspyder · 10 Mar 2010 at 04:03

ill take it off your hands! but eh hey have you enabled write caching and also turned off write cache buffer flushing?

Cosimo · 10 Mar 2010 at 08:42

It does look as though the C300 is being recognised by the OS as a SATA2 device. Did you do a new install of windows on this SSD?

adsyf · 10 Mar 2010 at 08:57

Rocketman I believe the pciide from as ssd bench means you are running in ide mode not ahci.

apatia77 · 10 Mar 2010 at 09:24

adsyf said:
Rocketman I believe the pciide from as ssd bench means you are running in ide mode not ahci.

I think this makes no difference, at least it didn't with my Crucial 64gb ssd and I have seen few people having no ahci enabled in bios and they had full speeds with their drives.

rocketman · 10 Mar 2010 at 18:23

simulatorman said:
It does look as though the C300 is being recognised by the OS as a SATA2 device. Did you do a new install of windows on this SSD?

No, its a drive-to-drive clone of my crucial m225 256gb. I had hoped using Acronis TI would save the hassle of reinstalling

Broken Hope · 10 Mar 2010 at 18:29

simulatorman said:
It should be faster, mine are these:

I did install the Marvell SATA 3 drivers for my controller

http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/2158/marvell.jpg

Your board also has a Marvell controller, have you done the same?

My controller is also set to AHCI.

The driver is here:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/...?ProductID=3234&ost=windows+7+64bit#anchor_os

EDIT: Is it plugged into a SATA 3 socket?

There's a newer driver available btw, also updates the config device driver.

http://www.station-drivers.com/tele...ru4.1.0.1601-all(www.station-drivers.com).exe

Cosimo · 10 Mar 2010 at 19:17

Broken Hope said:
There's a newer driver available btw, also updates the config device driver.

http://www.station-drivers.com/tele...ru4.1.0.1601-all(www.station-drivers.com).exe

I've seen that before and it's an OEM driver set-up package.

Broken Hope · 10 Mar 2010 at 19:59

simulatorman said:
I've seen that before and it's an OEM driver set-up package.

You can just update the controller/config device manually though, done it on my Gigabyte mobo.

The driver adds a new policies tab so you can disable safely remove hardware icon and enable/disable the caching.

Cosimo · 10 Mar 2010 at 20:34

Broken Hope said:
You can just update the controller/config device manually though, done it on my Gigabyte mobo.

The driver adds a new policies tab so you can disable safely remove hardware icon and enable/disable the caching.

Just done it, thanks.

Cosimo · 10 Mar 2010 at 20:49

rocketman said:
No, its a drive-to-drive clone of my crucial m225 256gb. I had hoped using Acronis TI would save the hassle of reinstalling

Is it so much of a hassle to do a reinstall? Personally I would do a clean install with the C300 to see if it makes a difference. Just run the benchmark again before you start a couple of times to confirm that it is still the same as before.

rocketman · 10 Mar 2010 at 21:49

simulatorman said:
Is it so much of a hassle to do a reinstall? Personally I would do a clean install with the C300 to see if it makes a difference. Just run the benchmark again before you start a couple of times to confirm that it is still the same as before.

I've done a reinstall, but I still can't get the drive to be controlled by the Marvell driver. The drive is definately plugged in to one of the SATA 3 ports, I've downloaded and installed the Marvell driver off Gigabyte website, and I've changed the GSATA setting in the BIOS to AHCI. I've re-run AS SSD Benchmark, and I'm still not getting over 200 for sequential read :confused:

The drive is listed under device manager as C300-CTFDDAC256MAG ATA Device if this helps, and I have Marvell 91xx Config Device listed under System devices, but it states that no driver files are loaded for this device?

Cosimo · 10 Mar 2010 at 22:36

The only two places where the C300 and controller show up are here are ‘disk drives’ and ‘storage controllers’:

I'm on a ASUS P6X58D, have you tried your motherboard support forum?

rocketman · 11 Mar 2010 at 10:35

simulatorman said:
The only two places where the C300 and controller show up are here are ‘disk drives’ and ‘storage controllers’:

I'm on a ASUS P6X58D, have you tried your motherboard support forum?

Well that is my problem then, as it is not being reconised as a storage controller then :confused: