SSD MEGA TEST Want to know whats best for you? Look inside!! UPDATE 14/02/2012

ArchAndroid · 12 Apr 2013 at 21:51

wazza300 said:
your not running in ahci mode

pciide=bad

It's my parents' Dell Inspiron 530 meaning it can't be changed in the BIOS. :mad:

IC3 · 13 Apr 2013 at 15:59

In my build I have a intel 520 120gb, very fast SSD.

stulid · 13 Apr 2013 at 16:12

IC3 said:
In my build I have a intel 520 120gb, very fast SSD.

Get some benches up.

IC3 · 14 Apr 2013 at 15:53

stulid said:
Get some benches up.

Here you go

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dhill · 14 Apr 2013 at 20:14

IC3 those results seem to be a lot slower than my Samsung 840 Pro, although I am running mine in performance mode.

Do you have a performance mode you can change to for your Intel drive? If so, would be helpful to see the results for that.

stulid · 14 Apr 2013 at 20:26

My Intel 520 240GB does this (fresh drive) - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18416484

Cant see a 120GB model being that much worse.

dhill · 14 Apr 2013 at 20:42

stulid said:
My Intel 520 240GB does this (fresh drive) - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18416484

Cant see a 120GB model being that much worse.

Any idea why there is such a difference with the 4k writes between your Intel 520 and my Samsung 840 Pro?

stulid · 14 Apr 2013 at 20:44

dhill said:
Any idea why there is such a difference with the 4k writes between your Intel 520 and my Samsung 840 Pro?

The SSD isnt as new a design?

let me connect it back up and do a run now ( i recently secure erased it and put it in its box)

Edit, although it will be on a Marvel SATAIII port.

dhill · 14 Apr 2013 at 20:55

I'm having a play with my system as well to see if I can increase my 4k write speeds.

Have just downloaded the most recent Intel RST Drivers and am going to disable Intel Speed Step, C1E, C-States etc in the BIOS and re-run the tests myself to see if I get an improvement.

Be back soon.....

Locky · 14 Apr 2013 at 21:05

Here is some benchmarks of the 480GB M500

dhill · 14 Apr 2013 at 21:17

Ok, I have some interesting results.

All I've changed since my last set of results is that I've installed the latest Intel RST Drivers (11.7.0.1013) and disabled Intel Speed Step, C1E, C-States etc in the BIOS.

Before driver and BIOS changes:

After driver and BIOS changes:

Interesting set of results following the changes I must say.

stulid · 14 Apr 2013 at 21:23

I ran it again the performance is worse as I would have expected using a rubbish Marvel port.

dhill · 14 Apr 2013 at 21:29

So any idea as to why my AS SSD Benchmark results have all improved except for the 4k-64Thrd write test and the CrystalDiskMark 4k QD32 tests?

stulid · 14 Apr 2013 at 21:46

I dont, but I think you will never get the same result twice as the SSD controller does its TRIM/Garbage colection role to try and keep performance high.

dhill · 14 Apr 2013 at 21:47

Ok, seems like I was having a blonde moment for a second there....helps if you remember to turn the Anti-Virus first before running the tests. Doh!

thenewoc · 14 Apr 2013 at 22:14

Here's my Vertex 4 256GB

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18460872

trickynickyuk · 14 Apr 2013 at 23:25

hows these for my SSD

Guest2 · 15 Apr 2013 at 00:04

trickynickyuk said:
hows these for my SSD

My Crucial M4 gets the following (p55 board)

241/258
630

Locky · 15 Apr 2013 at 00:12

trickynickyuk said:
hows these for my SSD

You have the 4k 64thrd problem that Crucial M4's suffer with and Crucial won't admit there is a problem despite a massive thread on their forums about this issue and LOADS Of people moaning about it.

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/low-4K-64Thrd-with-AS-SSD/td-p/84448/page/40

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-S...ginal-speed/td-p/80100/highlight/false/page/4

Guest2 · 15 Apr 2013 at 00:43

My m4 gets 186.30mb/148.89mb on the 4k-64thrd

Do only some suffer or is it a combination of other things? (Drivers, motherboard etc)

** SSD MEGA TEST ** Want to know whats best for you? Look inside!! UPDATE 14/02/2012

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