How much difference does tweaking make to your SSD performance? - lets find out

[John24]

No doubt there are a few things you should "tweak" regarding your SSD, like disableing indexing and your defragger.

I have an Mtron ssd as you may know. It has performed to spec without any problems, since I first got it several tweaks have emerged form OCZ, that claim to improve the performance of your OCZ SSD, in many cases they do just that. I`m intruged to find out if these tweaks also apply to other SSD`s.

With your help I hope to find out, I`ll issue a baseline and you can tell me what to tweak, I`ll do it and post ATTO results along with my impressions. If there are any other tests you`d like me to run pre and post tweak I`d be happy to.

The baseline then, I run XP PRO SP3, indexing, pagefile, hibernation, system restore are disabled. Offset is 32 KB and the below bench is using ATTO 2.36 on an empty Mtron Mobi 3000 16 GB.

 

[John24]

So no real suggestions yet then.

 

[John24]

Depends wht you mean by real.

Maybe you didn't see the 5 tweaks that I listed in my earlier post (and had gleaned for myself by browsing and reading up on the subject in this and other forums).

If you bother to read the OP you`ll see I`ve already done all those.

 

[John24]

You guys are not understanding the point of this thread.

It`s to see whether the tweaks OCZ recomend have any effect on none OCZ SSD`s.

So please stop posting your OCZ SSD benchmarks in this thread, there are plenty of other threads to show off your peen in.

There are general tweaks that obviously will benefit all SSD`s, these have already been done. Then there are tweaks only recomended by OCZ such as the alignment, my aim, and the purpose of this thread is to determin whether such tweaks can benefit none OCZ SSD`s.

 

[John24]

I don`t have cpu power saving so I just set the power scheme to laptop and the bench showed better results:

Then I installed windows 7 build 7057 and the bench showed worse results, especially for the small file sizes:

Would any of the OCZ tweaks improve the W7 results? Don`t know, tell me what to try and I`ll do it...