Poor performance from Crucial M4?

Goose · 3 Dec 2014 at 12:55

I just ran AS SSD Benchmark and compared it with the results from the sticky and my Seq. read/writes aren't far off but the other scores seem to a good bit lower.

The left image is from the sticky and the right image is mine.

Is this just age related performance drop or something else?

Thanks

Frenzy · 3 Dec 2014 at 13:34

Pretty interesting as you are using the Intel drivers where as the sticky is using the ms drivers. Yours should be better... are your drivers up to date?

bledd · 3 Dec 2014 at 13:44

Is AHCI set in the bios?

ZXSpectrum · 3 Dec 2014 at 13:46

You would be surprised. I have had performance issues with the Intel AHCI drivers compared to the standard xyears old MS Drivers.

Frenzy · 3 Dec 2014 at 13:50

ZXSpectrum said:
You would be surprised. I have had performance issues with the Intel AHCI drivers compared to the standard xyears old MS Drivers.

I've always experienced the opposite, maybe it's chipset dependent?

wazza300 · 3 Dec 2014 at 14:36

how full is the drive? speeds should be better than that

running latest motherboard bios might help aswell with latest sata oproms

what motherboard?

Goose · 3 Dec 2014 at 19:22

Frenzy said:
Pretty interesting as you are using the Intel drivers where as the sticky is using the ms drivers. Yours should be better... are your drivers up to date?

I didn't even know I had a choice

bledd. said:
Is AHCI set in the bios?

Fairly certain that it is but i'll double check.

wazza300 said:
how full is the drive? speeds should be better than that

running latest motherboard bios might help aswell with latest sata oproms

what motherboard?

Still 40gb free and my mobo (see sig) BIOS is the latest.

wazza300 · 3 Dec 2014 at 19:24

it might help to backup the data and secure erase it,then restore the data

can clone it to a spare drive,secure erase with parted magic then clone back

Goose · 4 Dec 2014 at 12:10

wazza300 said:
it might help to backup the data and secure erase it,then restore the data

can clone it to a spare drive,secure erase with parted magic then clone back

Is that an all-in-one process done using parted magic or is there more to it than that?

Also, I would i go about changing from the Intel drivers to the MS ones?

Thanks