Crucial-m500 132%

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Basically i followed instructions on how to speed up ssd's on tom's hardware and for some reason this ssd is flying its read is 512 write is 480 and mixed 499 comparing that to my 850 evo read 500 write 323 mixed 343!
I only use this system for gaming browsing the net etc .. I know the setup they get you to do can be dodgy if you max out your ram but my system is overkill for what i use it for so far.
anyone else try this?

Sorry forgot the 132% is the Userbenchmark score i got lol
 
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Its bizarre this £280 ssd i bought is 45th in there speed rankings and outperforms a 960 pro nvme on some levels.
4k read :46.1 10% faster, 4k mixed 23% ,ADQ read 28% and mixed plus 8%
Obviously the new £1000 sd overall is twice as fast but this ssd used in this way might be worth it!

Hotwired said:
You didn't link to anything so no one knows what you've done.
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Do i have to or perhaps you can just trust me?
Or reaserch yourself?
 
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I actually used a couple of different sites not just Tom's. I disabled paging created a ram disc on my other ssd the samsung and moved the caches on to that drive and enabled trim, i was getting faster speeds 135% but have filled the drive up a bit with new games and im sure there were a couple of other tweaks but it was a while ago i did it.
This is my gaming drive so im not too bothered if i loose data which can happen in this configuration if there were a power outage or if you don't have enough ram.

Armageus said:
So what is the purpose of this thread, if you aren't going to share your miracle speed ups?
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No miracles here just a couple of tweaks i did and it surprised me was all.
 
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Are you benchmarking a RAMdisk? In which case you're not benchmarking your drive at all. Presumably not as those figures are too slow for RAM (unless it's a small ramdisk so getting a mix of RAM and disk?).
Weird, the changes you've described shouldn't have any impact at all. I've no idea what userbenchmark does as it's tests so no idea how meaningful it is, disk synthetics can be pretty poor. Anyone happen to know?
 
Sorry to disappoint was i meant to paste a link to a website to buy a product at this point and a special 10% discount code? lol

David Bisset said:
Are you benchmarking a RAMdisk? In which case you're not benchmarking your drive at all. Presumably not as those figures would be pretty poor. Weird, the changes you've made shouldn't have any impact at all. I've no idea what userbenchmark does as it's tests so no idea how meaningful it is, disk synthetics can be pretty poor. Anyone happen to know?
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The Ramdisk is a partition on the samsung im benching the crucial.
 
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Just ran AS SSD Benchmark to see if i could replicate the scores.
<Name>Crucial_CT480M500SSD1</Name>
<Firmware>EMT01B6Q</Firmware>
<Controller>iaStorA</Controller>
<Size>465.76 GB</Size>
<DateTime>27/11/2017 11:36:31</DateTime>
<BenchmarkVersion>2.0.6485.19676</BenchmarkVersion>
<Mode>MB/s</Mode>
<Note />
<Signature />
</Information>
<SeqTest>
<Read>509.85 MB/s</Read>
<Write>485.58 MB/s</Write>
</SeqTest>
<Random4K1TTest>
<Read>45.17 MB/s</Read>
<Write>121.91 MB/s</Write>
</Random4K1TTest>
<Random4K64TTest>
<Read>357.06 MB/s</Read>
<Write>345.62 MB/s</Write>
</Random4K64TTest>
<AccTimeTest>
<Read>-.--- ms</Read>
<Write>0.026 ms</Write>
</AccTimeTest>
<Score>
<Read>453</Read>
<Write>516</Write>
<Total>1217</Total>
</Score>
</ASSSDBenchmark>
 
Im no tech genius like i said i followed instructions on a couple of sites and when i rebooted ran a couple of benchmarks.
I was hoping other people had the same kind of results and if there was any downfall on running the drive this way apart from the things i mentioned.
 
So, you've set up a RAMDisk? If so, you've set aside part of your RAM and your PC now writes to this, then later writes it to your SSD. This will give you great writing speeds in benchmarks, and great read speeds (provided the data is still stored in your RAM and hasn't been written to the SSD and then cleared).

The downsides would be that you have less RAM to play with as you've set some aside as a 'pseudo-hard drive', and you need to make sure you shut the PC down correctly otherwise you'll lose the data stored in the your RAMDisk that hasn't been written to your hard drive/SSD yet. Also, you'll might find the PC takes a little longer to boot as (I think) it needs to set up the RAMDisk at each boot.

Samsung offer this as an option for their SSDs in their software called "Rapid Mode". I turned it on once and it did improve benchmarks, but I didn't notice any difference in day-to-day usage.

If you're happy, good on you, just wanted you to know what it is (and what it isn't) :)
 
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