AS SSD Benchmark benchmarks!

cord77 · 3 Mar 2010 at 15:09

OCZ Vertex LE 100GB tests

Gigabyte 790FX UD5P board
Phenom II 965 @ 19x200 (3.8GHz)
4GB Dominator RAM (1600MHz, 8/8/8/24/T1)
Windows 7 64 Bit Ultimate

SB750 SATA interface using MSAHCI driver.

SB750 SATA interface using AMD SATA AHCI driver (current catalyst version)

What was interesting is that when I was using the AMD driver, I checked to see if TRIM was working (I thought only the MS AHCI driver worked with trim) and I got a positive result (0 = trim enabled). Not that it mattered as it seems the MS driver is the way to go. Although I'd like to know where the AMD driver gets the extra 51% speed in 4k writes.

VortexA1 · 3 Mar 2010 at 15:16

cord77 said:
What was interesting is that when I was using the AMD driver, I checked to see if TRIM was working (I thought only the MS AHCI driver worked with trim) and I got a positive result (0 = trim enabled). Not that it mattered as it seems the MS driver is the way to go. Although I'd like to know where the AMD driver gets the extra 51% speed in 4k writes.

TRIM will be flagged on only because windows detects you have an SSD. It doesn't actually indicate that it's working.

It can still only work with microsoft's drivers.

cord77 · 3 Mar 2010 at 15:29

Ah interesting. So is there a fullproof way of knowing it is working?

Also I hear the OCZ firmware has background GC, so in theory you could live without TRIM and still have non-degrading speed?

VortexA1 · 3 Mar 2010 at 15:45

cord77 said:
Ah interesting. So is there a fullproof way of knowing it is working?

Also I hear the OCZ firmware has background GC, so in theory you could live without TRIM and still have non-degrading speed?

no m8.As yet there is no flag to actually say that TRIM is actually working.

You could look at performance monitor at hdd activity after deleting a large file off the ssd and see if there's a lot of activity.

Not Ideal.

jbloggs · 3 Mar 2010 at 16:13

cord77 said:
Ah interesting. So is there a fullproof way of knowing it is working?

Download and run CrystalDiskInfo ...if I remember correctly it does indicate whether or not TRIM is operational...I'm sure if that's not the case, someone will correct me.

VortexA1 · 3 Mar 2010 at 16:31

jbloggs said:
Download and run CrystalDiskInfo ...if I remember correctly it does indicate whether or not TRIM is operational...I'm sure if that's not the case, someone will correct me.

taken from this thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=15866516

Ziggy4 said:
Same applies here as in my comments above about the TRIM info in Crystal, this only lets you know TRIM is supported, and not an indicator that it is actually running i.e. the OS is sending the command but your HDD controller may or may not be implementing it.

jbloggs · 3 Mar 2010 at 16:35

VortexA1 said:
taken from this thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=15866516

Right, thanks for putting me straight on that one...

cliffy · 3 Mar 2010 at 19:00

My OCZ LE

AMDPower · 3 Mar 2010 at 20:58

why are seq read and write not as advertised or near to?

there seem to be large discrepancy, any reason for this?

cliffy · 3 Mar 2010 at 21:09

I have no idea at all at the moment, i'm hoping someone on here who knows more about these things might be able to answer this question????

cainer · 3 Mar 2010 at 22:19

cliffy said:
I have no idea at all at the moment, i'm hoping someone on here who knows more about these things might be able to answer this question????

il keep me eye on this thread also as you know ive one to install tomorrow :/

cliffy · 4 Mar 2010 at 11:39

looking forward to your results, how are you going with it??

Cosimo · 5 Mar 2010 at 17:17

Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB with onboard Marvel 9123 6GB controller:

jbloggs · 5 Mar 2010 at 18:06

simulatorman said:
Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB with onboard Marvel 9123 6GB controller

Nice...

Cosimo · 6 Mar 2010 at 14:44

Build now complete, so Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB with onboard Marvel 9123 SATA 3 6GB controller:

Edit: updated using latest version of AS SSD.

J1nxy · 14 Mar 2010 at 10:36

c300 128GB plugged into an ASUS U3S6

jagga · 21 Mar 2010 at 15:54

2x30gb Agility raid0 on sb750 southbridge

drives are 10 months old and on new 1.5 firmware

AMD SB750 SATA Controller
Driver Version 3.1.1540.127

would be a lot faster on ich10r

just added this to my shopping list HighPoint RocketRAID 640 PCI-Express 2.0 x4 SATA 6.0Gb/s Controller Card + another 30gb agility

phillai · 26 Mar 2010 at 10:19

I'm a little concerned about my recently bought OCZ Vertex LE 100GB as well.

I get 200 read/130 writes as well...

Am I doing something wrong? What needs tweaking?

anything I don't mind · 26 Mar 2010 at 10:47

Thanks for posting all benchmarks, looking through them, the Intel seems over priced based on performance of the benchmarks, the crucial, corsair and OCZ seem to be the best performing.

Anyone ran the latest SSD on ICH9R chipset i still have a x38 socket m/b link

Features SATA 3Gb/s with external SATA 2 bracket.

does that mean it is not worth buying an SSD ?

555BUK · 26 Mar 2010 at 10:59

X25-M 80GB.

Ignoring benchmark figures this things feels just as fast as my now-dead RealSSD 128GB. Hopefully this Intel drive will live longer than two days....