Crucial M225 Issue

M1k3H · 19 Oct 2010 at 22:57

Hello.
Was seeing some benchs today at some threads and decided to "flex my muscles" by showing mine since my windows startup is quite impressive.
Started AS SSD Bench only to discover read/write speeds of average 4-10mb and access times of 9-10ms.
Horified, I upgraded to the latest firmware.
Bench again and started 150MB/s and then slowly dropped to 6 and cba to let the bench end as it would take too long.
Everest Disk benchmarking I have speeds up untill 264MB/s on benchs like AS and Atto it begins well and then drops to speeds of 5MB and even less.
I'm running my drive in ACHI mode.
Before with the latest firmware my disk's health was 98% now its on 79%.

What is going on?

M1k3H · 20 Oct 2010 at 20:59

Ok this is the AS SSD Bench, which could not let it complete since it's taking too long. You can see the speed.... yesterday it would do this in the first two as well.. This was happening with the Atto bench as well.

This is HD TUNE Bench

This is Everest HDD Bench Crucial M225 VS WD BC 750GB

kinda low numbers in AS, and comparing the two drivers the difference percentage isnt much.

writing in HD Tune was disabled something about removing partitions, everest writing tests remove all data.

manishpatel80 · 20 Oct 2010 at 22:03

I would try formatting the drive and then reinstall windows 7 and benchmark the drive.

M1k3H · 20 Oct 2010 at 22:24

manishpatel80 said:
I would try formatting the drive and then reinstall windows 7 and benchmark the drive.

reinstalling is not possible as I got this copy through MSDN alliance and have to download it again to write on a CD and my university has bandwidth limits and I dont have enough to download it this month.
The install is exactly 1 year old but I've been awayfor like 6 months. No virus/spyware etc I do maintaince every month.

M1k3H · 22 Oct 2010 at 02:14

any1 has any other ideas, instead of re-installing windows?

reygjabla · 22 Oct 2010 at 07:56

The only way you can get the drive back to it's factory qouted speed performance is to secure erase the drive and re-install windows in AHCI mode.

manishpatel80 · 22 Oct 2010 at 12:03

Yeh to a sanity erase of the drive.

M1k3H · 22 Oct 2010 at 14:51

reygjabla said:
The only way you can get the drive back to it's factory qouted speed performance is to secure erase the drive and re-install windows in AHCI mode.

How do I secure erase? Can I do a backup of the drive instead and load it afterwards or does it need to be a fresh install? Cause I'd hate to have to reinstall everything :s

Greebo · 22 Oct 2010 at 16:10

Take an image of your ssd, carry out a sanity erase, put windows back on from the iamge.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...nloads...Sanitary-Erase-and-Wiper.exe..FW-1.3

M1k3H · 22 Oct 2010 at 17:52

Greebo said:
Take an image of your ssd, carry out a sanity erase, put windows back on from the iamge.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...nloads...Sanitary-Erase-and-Wiper.exe..FW-1.3

ok will do as soon as I get my hands on an external drive.

What image utilities do you recommend? Haven't used one since... 5 years ago.
Was using Norton Ghost back then, any good?

M1k3H · 29 Oct 2010 at 16:34

ok i;ve used sanity erase, and reinstall windows 7 fresh while on achi mode. first thing i did was use AS SSD.

Results:

173.05MB/s 98.16MB/s
20.02MB/s 6.86MB/s
50.28MB/s 9.11MB/s
0.147ms 0.706ms

Score : 88 26
163

So, nothing changed :s what could be the problem?

my WD Black has better write values and similar read except the first which is 173...
Can;'t post shots atm as my pc is being validated to enter the internet.

Ok managed to set it up and here are some screens:

Crystalmark seems more... optimistic.