G.Skill Phoenix Pro 60GB

Type_R · 2 Dec 2010 at 06:51

Hi guys

First time SSD user here. Got myself a G.Skill PPro 60GB drive and have hooked it up to the setup below:

AMD 1090T
Gigabyte 890fxa-UD5
8GB G.Skill Ripjaws

I installed Windows 7 to the SSD (which is attached to the AMD SB controller) but unfortunately when installing the ATI drivers Win 7 started BSODing. So had to reinstall Win 7 and in doing so, formatted the drive (from Win7 install DVD).

Is there anyway of checking that the drive is still delivering the best possible performance? Any way of checking that its formatted correctly to aligned 4k clusters?

Thanks

P.S. Also any Win 7 tweaks to increase performance?

Zarf · 2 Dec 2010 at 08:56

when you run AS-SSD benchmark it'll tell you what the offset is and if it's bad. Note that your drive uses the Sandforce controller, so performance depends on how compressible that the data it's dealing with is. AS-SSD shows worst case scenario of completely compressible data. If you want to see the numbers on the box, run ATTO disk benchmark. Real performance is somewhere in the middle.

For Win7 tweaking, just run the windows performance index, it'll then detect the drive and do the necessaries for you. Don't read too much into advice on forums that have you disabling pretty much everything - some of it is crap that might gain you an extra 0.01% in benchmarks but worse performance for real-life stuff, and the rest is outdated tweaks designed to cope with limitations of the first generation of SSD's.

If you're really keen and have 8GB RAM, you can set up a 1 or 2GB RAMDrive and move your browser cache onto it. You can also do your temp folder but that can cause issues when a program needs to use a lot of Temp space.
I've not noticed any significant speedup over my SSD's though, so only do it if you have the RAM to play with.

Your drive lifespan will be fine with everything on too, don't worry about that either. You'll replace it long before it runs out of write cycles (note that you can still retrieve data off it even if/when that happens)

Type_R · 2 Dec 2010 at 13:56

Thanks that is most helpful. Ill get a few benchmarks done and post the results!

Type_R · 3 Dec 2010 at 23:19

This is the benchy:

Zarf · 3 Dec 2010 at 23:47

Your offset is fine and the scores look about right to me compared to other AS-SSD benches on Sandforce drives.

Enjoy!

Type_R · 4 Dec 2010 at 08:23

Zarf said:
Your offset is fine and the scores look about right to me compared to other AS-SSD benches on Sandforce drives.

Enjoy!

Thanks

sunjoo2012 · 4 Dec 2010 at 10:13

good speeds