Low WEI Score for SSD - Help/advice!

[chrisgt]

Hi all,

I have a 120GB Agility 3 SSD, currently hooked up to a Gigayte H55-UD2H (recently updated to latest BIOS (F11)) via A SATA2 3GB/s cable.

I know the bottleneck here will be the SATA cable, but I had previously registered a score of 7.4 on WEI before messing around with OC'ing my i3, now when I run I score a measly 6.9 and it is the lowest subset.

Not sure what could have made it change - BIOS update? What other apps would be good to gauge the SSD performance?

Thanks,

 

[RJC]

When you updated the BIOS, did you enable ACHI mode afterwards?

Also ignore what WEI says.

 

[chrisgt]

Current scores.

No, I did not enable ACHI mode. Will try now.

 

[chrisgt]

Changing the above to ACHI causes BSOD on boot, and now that I've changed it back to IDE it boots me into my old mechanical drive (with Windows install) and not my SSD install!!

 

[djkav]

It maybe booting to your mechanical HDD because the boot priority has your SSD 2nd. Try changing the boot order, making sure the SSD is 1st.

The BSOD sounds like you installed windows in IDE mode. You will need to google enabling ACHI from windows registry. Once you have done that, you can change to ACHI in BIOS.

 

[chrisgt]

Tweaked registry to enable AHCI to avoid a fresh install. Enabled it in BIOS and changed boot priority. I'm back into my SDD with the following results:

Read is up, write is down?? *Scratches head*

Re-run when PC completely idle:

Is that acceptable for a SATA-2 SSD??

 

[Akagi]

Tweaked registry to enable AHCI to avoid a fresh install. Enabled it in BIOS and changed boot priority. I'm back into my SDD with the following results:

Read is up, write is down?? *Scratches head*

Re-run when PC completely idle:

Is that acceptable for a SATA-2 SSD??

For some, yes, for an agility 3, no.

 

[hyperst]

Use ATTO to benchmark sandforce based drives.