Just received my Intel 80g ssd, hows it look?

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Set the bios to AHCI and updated the firmware, how are the results, is it all working okay?
 
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Set the bios to AHCI and updated the firmware, how are the results, is it all working okay?
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The 4K-64Thrd is very low, mine is 152MB/s...

What controller do you have it attached to (if jmicron (Gigabyte SATA2), you need to put it onto the Intel cont and update ICHxR drivers to 9.6.0.1014) and what drivers and you using, do you have Write caching Enabled in device Manager?
 
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jbloggs said:
The 4K-64Thrd is very low, mine is 152MB/s...

What controller do you have it attached to (if jmicron (Gigabyte SATA2), you need to put it onto the Intel cont and update ICHxR drivers to 9.6.0.1014) and what drivers and you using, do you have Write caching Enabled in device Manager?
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Doh that dosent sound too good then.

You have lost me abit there, any chance of putting it a little clearer.

Got a question to, my mobo seems to have two types of sata ports, GSATAII0/GSATAII1 & SATAII0/1/2/3/4/5. Does it make a difference which the driver is plugged into? Atm every sata device is in the SATAII0/1/2

Microsoft driver 6.1.7600.16385 and write caching is enabled (Should it be?)
 
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Atm every sata device is in the SATAII0/1/2
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OK, if your mobo is the one in you sig, then that is the Intel ICH9R cont. it is plugged into...

Download Intel RST Driver Files For F6 Install 9.6.0.1014 (select the appropriate one for your OS), unzip and update the ICHxR drivers via Device Manager...

When in Device Manager, make sure Write caching is enabled for your SSD...

I would also install the latest Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility (9.1.1.1025) for your OS...

Now run AS SSD Benchmark again...
 
jbloggs said:
OK, if your mobo is the one in you sig, then that is the Intel ICH9R cont. it is plugged into...

Download Intel RST Driver Files For F6 Install 9.6.0.1014 (select the appropriate one for your OS), unzip and update the ICHxR drivers via Device Manager...

When in Device Manager, make sure Write caching is enabled for your SSD...

I would also install the latest Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility (9.1.1.1025) for your OS...

Now run AS SSD Benchmark again...
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Thanks.

Downloaded the Intel RST Driver files for F6 install, Unzipped.

Now im in device manager, but not sure what is meant by " ICHxR drivers"?
 
You said you changed it but the as ssd benchy says you're under IDE mode not ahci.

IDE would make your 4k-64thrd reads slow.
 
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You said you changed it but the as ssd benchy says you're under IDE mode not ahci.

IDE would make your 4k-64thrd reads slow.
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Ah updated the bios and forgot to change the second AHCI option, well spotted.

Now getting these results, are they more like it? Do I need to do the updates mentioned above, still struggling to work out exactly what to do in device manager..

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You're welcome. :)

that score looks totally sorted now m8.

With that score you don't need to do any more updates if you don't want.

With the bog-standard ms driver you'll be getting TRIM too.
 
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Yes. You can turn it straight to AHCI, but on some OS you need to do a tiny registry edit otherwise you'll be left with a BSOD. Change to AHCI in bios and try boot, if it goes to windows you're pretty much sorted, bsod - change it back to IDE - consult websites for bios edit.
 
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Yes. You can turn it straight to AHCI, but on some OS you need to do a tiny registry edit otherwise you'll be left with a BSOD. Change to AHCI in bios and try boot, if it goes to windows you're pretty much sorted, bsod - change it back to IDE - consult websites for bios edit.
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do you have to do the reg edit with win7?
 
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If the power goes out while using an SSD (say installing an application), does the drive need to be formatted? Someone just told me that his computer builder told him this... I smell BS?

*PS* Op sorry for hijack, this was only active thread and I was angry!
 
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it does blue screen - i suspect the reg edit is needed then. Any problems with drivers or TRIM doing it this way, i assume it will all be detected and work fine ?
 
All this 'tweaking' etc yadda - is this due to the relative 'newness' of the SSD technology, being that it's still bleedin' edge?

2. When these units become a commodity one won't have to 'mess about' in this manner?

3. Mechanical hard drives don't need this level of fiddling about? - at some point SSDs won't either, when do you think this will happen and what needs to happen to enable that?
 
whitecrook said:
All this 'tweaking' etc yadda - is this due to the relative 'newness' of the SSD technology, being that it's still bleedin' edge?

2. When these units become a commodity one won't have to 'mess about' in this manner?

3. Mechanical hard drives don't need this level of fiddling about? - at some point SSDs won't either, when do you think this will happen and what needs to happen to enable that?
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Enabling AHCI after an OS install through the registry would occur regardless of hard drive type. There's really little to no tweaking required for an SSD on Windows 7. Though it's probably better to install using IDE then enable AHCI afterwards to make sure Windows 7 enables all the SSD tweaks etc.

Since I've read that on some peoples machines that Windows 7 doesn't disable Superfetch and such which it did on my machine that was initially installed as an IDE drive.
 
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