OCZ-AGILITY 3

mastering3d · 26 May 2012 at 18:02

Hi there guys .

Oh yes its another post about OCZ-AGILITY3 now we are all happy any way down to business

Yeah i see a lot people are all having problems With poor speed ill joining that club with you ,I got one today with out checking before buying how good they were, but all i knew was the high speeds ,But that's not the case here i am having mega problems to try and get the speeds out the drive ,In-fact my older KINGSTON SNV425S26 Is way faster then this drive read 225.62MB/s write 108.16MB/s , Where as the OCZ-AGILITY3 197.81MB/s 145.52MB/s ,From what i no and have now seen around the net ,I see and understand that the speeds i am getting from the OCZ-AGILITY3 are pretty low .I have seen benchmarks where people are getting 400MB/s Read 380MB/s Write all most two times the speed that i am getting . In the bios setup i have that set to boot AHCI and drive is plugged into SATA3 ,I have all so tried in other ports ie SATA ports but to be honest there is no change in speeds there pretty much the same speeds .

Just a side note i have flashed the firmware on the SSD drive to 2.22 ,All so the MOBO i am using with this is Z68X-UD3P-B3 F8 .

Hope some one as the same mobo and drive that can maybe give me some answers ,

Surveyor · 26 May 2012 at 19:09

You've made sure it's ended up fitted to an Intel SATA 3 port (the white ones)?

You've installed Intel RST?

Do I remember correctly that there's a particular benchmark you need to use to see the full speed? ATTO?

spixelspixel · 26 May 2012 at 19:25

Are you testing speeds with AS SSD ? Those speeds are correct for the 120gb ocz agility 3 (in fact write speed is higher than spec)

hyperst · 26 May 2012 at 19:26

Surveyor said:
You've made sure it's ended up fitted to an Intel SATA 3 port (the white ones)?

You've installed Intel RST?

Do I remember correctly that there's a particular benchmark you need to use to see the full speed? ATTO?

Yeah the Op needs Atto bench32 for sandforce based drives, if he was using AS SSD bench then that will not work correctly with sandforce controller drives.

spixelspixel · 26 May 2012 at 19:29

hyperst said:
Yeah the Op needs Atto bench32 for sandforce based drives, if he was using AS SSD bench then that will not work correctly with sandforce controller drives.

Its not that it doesn't work correctly, its just slower due to async nand. I have a corsair force gt which uses sandforce + sync nand and I get 500 read on AS SSD.

wozzsta · 26 May 2012 at 20:03

I have the same mobo as you, and i know its not much help but with my M4 SSD im getting these speeds.

Pluged into the first SATA 3 adapter (the white one closest to the mobo)

In the bios setting to AHCI, XMB is off.

MOOGLEYS · 27 May 2012 at 20:01

This is one of my Agilty 3 drives a 60GB one. Using a Sata 6GB controller on a Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P. No idea if it's good or not but works fast enough for me and they were cheap... :-)

mastering3d · 28 May 2012 at 14:52

Thanks for the reply's guys ,I all so posted over at there own forum .

Here a reply from there one of the staff Praz : Clicking on the link in post #2 will show what is needed. The AS SSD screenshot in post #5 matches the published specs for the drive. It is delivering the performance claimed.

http://www.ocztechnology.com/res/man...duct_sheet.pdf

Using this program AS SSD to test .

Sequential Read AS-SSD 120gb = 195 MB/s . This is there test in the PDF
Sequential Write AS-SSD 120gb = 130 MB/s . This is there test in the PDF

After seeing that i tested again using AS-SSD and here was my score with Sequential Write / Read .

OCZ-AGILITY3

Read 198.04MB/s
Write 105.98MB/s

The only reason i was off about it being slow is due to what the specs show when buying they say .
- Maximum Read: 525MB/sec But how are they coming up with that score ?
- Maximum Write: 500MB/sec But how are they coming up with that score ?

But there is one other things that i am kinder of confused about and that is when testing my Kingston SNV425S264GB low end SSD i get better speeds when running AS-SSD ? .

Here are the speeds from it .

Kingston SNV425S264GB

Read 225.93MB/s very good for this SSD
Write 142.28MB/s very good for this SSD

So what programs are there to test in real time data not this Sequential .

sithlord · 28 May 2012 at 17:06

The sandforce drives arent fast unless your storing files with all 0s are texts files. i..e anything highly compressible.

Most of us have avi, jpg, zips, rars etc. Which sandforces cant compress and you see the raw write speed of the flash.

Should have got an crucial M4, Samsung / Vertex 4 or another non SF controller based drive.