256GB Crucial M4 Benchmarking

Narj

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Hi chaps, I did a search and found the ATTO tool.

Can anyone please confirm whether this is the expected kind of performance for this drive?

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Thanks!
 
Seems to be on the slow side. Are you using the native Intel/AMD SATA 6Gbps controller? Is it on the 0009 firmwire? Set the SATA mode to AHCI?
 
Orcvader said:
Seems to be on the slow side. Are you using the native Intel/AMD SATA 6Gbps controller? Is it on the 0009 firmwire? Set the SATA mode to AHCI?
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Ooops... the SATA mode was IDE. How do I know which the Intel controller is? I've got an Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ... I'll go get the manual but I think I connected into the 6GB/s SATA3_0.
 
Too late.. ntldr is missing and changing back to ide doesnt work. can't reinstall eithee... what do I do. Delete partitions first? There is a system reserved one... maybe that is the issue?
 
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Sticking back to the original port, on IDE mode still causes problems? Well something's not right there...

You need to reinstall Windows I guess. Just reinstall it on AHCI mode so you won't have to do the Windows tweak. Make sure only the optical disk drive and the SSD is connected to ensure all boot files stay on the SSD. On the Windows install disk, delete all partitions including the system reserved one. The system reserved partition is where all boot files go to, and usually cannot be accessed via Computer.
 
Orcvader said:
Sticking back to the original port, on IDE mode still causes problems? Well something's not right there...

You need to reinstall Windows I guess. Just reinstall it on AHCI mode so you won't have to do the Windows tweak. Make sure only the optical disk drive and the SSD is connected to ensure all boot files stay on the SSD. On the Windows install disk, delete all partitions including the system reserved one. The system reserved partition is where all boot files go to, and usually cannot be accessed via Computer.
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Cheers, attempting reinstall now with deleted system partition. Fingers crossed!
 
Reinstalled. Thanks! Will bench again later.. lol windows install in a couple of minutes. This is mental!
 
Cheers guys. I'm all up and running on AHCI now. It wasn't a problem as it was a new install anyhow :)
 
Looking good, you can find out the firmware I think in device manager, right click the SSD, have a look under one of the tabs for something that looks like a firmware, it'll most likely come with 0009
 
Yup it's looking much better. From the benchmark it looks like you're already on the 0009 firmwire, but it's best to check just incase you can squeeze even more speed out of it :).
 
Just as a follow up. I think there's no way I want a mechanical drive in my system now so I'm going to get another one of these and carry on using my external drive for downloads, docs etc. :)

Are there any windows settings I now need to tweak or am I now all sorted?

Cheers!
 
Looks fine to me. I'm not using mine for my OS, which would probably explain why I get more consistent results;

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This is my first Intel rig and SSD so are thesr scores OK operating as an OS?
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