Crucial v4 set up help.

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Can anyone suggest any troubleshooting tips to help 'fix' the performance of my new v4?

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I'm running a Dell XPS m1730 with Windows 7 Professional x64.
AHCI is enabled.
Superfetch and drive indexing are off.
Not sure what else I can do?

Gibbo managed the following with his:
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(That's OK in terms of hot-linking I hope?)
 
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okay, see that you posted Gibbo numbers.

Off the top of my head:
Can you wait a while and let the SSD garbage collect and run the test again?
Gibbo's testing from a fresh blank drive, did you run this after writing lots to the drive?
Also, are you running same firmware version as Gibbo?
Are your partitions 4K aligned?
Is write cache enabled or disabled?
Is your power profile set to maximum performance?
 


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Ok this is my numbers - I don't know how or what I'm doing as im new to SSD but if its anything to of any help to anyone - there it is and I will answer any questions you might have.
P.S I installed SSD yesterday and this bench was done around 24hr after installing win7 and some other stuff that I use.
 
Hmmm - I have updated the chipset drivers to the latest intel set and it has made no difference. I can't think of anything else that could be having such a dramatic impact on the write speeds. I will do a clean install at some point to see what that does (handy still having the old drive intact so I have the ultimate backup!)

Any ideas?
 
Because a picture speaks a thousand words...
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As stated the intel driver is up to date (as far as I can tell it is the correct RST one as selected by intel's own update software and confirmed when I offered up the manual driver as a replacement.)

I'm not convinced by the SATA argument - that is a massive drop in performance which seems more like a set up issue to me. I might have a pop on the crucial forum and see if they have any ideas. Might fire a support message to Gibbo and see if he has any ideas.

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Driver seems old, but says it is up to date when I offer it the latest once from intel.
 
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Just in case there is some confusion - I'm not fussed about the fractional difference in Read speed - it's the 20x reduction in Write speed that has me scratching my head.
 
I'd buy into that if it were just a few percent - but Gibbo's 512K write speed is 20x faster than mine - that's not 'low performance' - that's NO performance :confused:

Interestingly in that sat page it mentions that the board isn't compatible with Intel Matrix Storage Tech which pre-dates the RST - I wonder how much of an impact that has?
 
This is Gibbo's results with mine along side (on the right)
My previous result weren't anywhere near but I read a little about
alignment and reinstalled from scratch. I'm happy with the results.
Some are little better some not so good but in the main, tis good.



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I did no updates to Win7 or any Firmware updates etc...
 
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I am wondering about alignment and the benefits of a fresh re-install - will do that over the coming week and see what difference it makes - something is clearly not playing - but a fresh start always helps!
 
2 new ones
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Just a thought - being that this is effectively a clone of a clone, there could be a lot of garbage on the drive - any way to force TRIM to run and clean it up?
 
Its not normally good practice with SSDs but you could try and defrag the drive.

For normal use Do not defrag your SSDs make sure its turned off.
 
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