Intel X25-M 80GB Large Performance Drop

[icedbullet]

AS SSD reading on 12th May 2010:

My new Intel 80GB X 25-M, 41.6GB free space remaining

Now 27th June 2010 and look at the performance degradation!!!

Can anyone tell me whats going on? I currently have 14.6GB free on my X-25M which is unpartitioned.

 

[Archibald0]

Do you have the firmware installed which allows you to use the trim function?

 

[jbloggs]

If you've got the TRIM supporting firmware installed, can you run Intel SSD Toolbox and see what affect that has...

Do you have "write caching" enabled?

Try installing the Intel 9.6.0.1014 drivers.

 

[rickh]

most likely that trim is not in use

a secure erase and firmware update will get the drive working as it should

 

[icedbullet]

@Archibald/rickh: I have Firmware revision 2CV102HD which I think was released before Christmas possibly earlier. I didn't install the Rapid storage drivers as I thought they were for RAID set-ups only or intel mobos only?

2CV102HD does enable TRIM as far as I know and I'm using Win7x64. My SSD is running in AHCI mode on an ABIT IX38 mobo (has intel controllers).

@jbloggs: I have run the intel toolbox management tools and it runs for 2 seconds before turning green and telling me my SSD is working as it should be
Write caching is off as I read here that its useless with an ssd

EDIT: my mistake I thought I had disabled write caching but I haven't, could this be the problem?

 

[Antec900]

I also get this same bench. Could someone lead me to a English version as mines in German, cheers

 

[icedbullet]

I also get this same bench. Could someone lead me to a English version as mines in German, cheers

In the program go to Language (2nd from last in the toolbar called "sprache") and switch the language to English

 

[Antec900]

In the program go to Language (2nd from last in the toolbar called "sprache") and switch the language to English

Yea i tried that mate, nothing happened.

EDIT: says Bitte Spenden - Please donate =(

 

[icedbullet]

Do you have the "AS SSD Benchmark.resources.dll" file in a folder called en-us in the program folder?

 

[Antec900]

Do you have the "AS SSD Benchmark.resources.dll" file in a folder called en-us in the program folder?

yes, I open from win-zip and transfer the file 'AS SSD Benchmark.exe' to the desktop, run.

 

[Outpost262]

Mine has suffered a similar benchmark slowdown (with 45GB+ free, latest firmware on Win7 64). Interesting.

Not that it's made any noticable difference to everyday subjective experience...

 

[icedbullet]

yes, I open from win-zip and transfer the file 'AS SSD Benchmark.exe' to the desktop, run.

Mine is in a folder which I labelled AS SSD. Ill give you the folder layout

AS SSD (Main folder)---->
AS SSD Benchmark.exe
en-US (folder)------>
AS SSD Benchmark.resources.dll

So the .exe and the en-us folder with the .dll file are all in one folder together. I had it as you did, just the .exe extracted and mine was stuck in German too

 

[Antec900]

Ow yes thank you. I can finally read =)

Have you sorted your issue? Ill probably do what you do, update drivers?

Whats TRIM by the way?

 

[icedbullet]

I haven't figured out what the problem is yet, still reading around and waiting for some OCUK superbrain to help me out on this thread

TRIM = Click here

 

[Zarf]

Put the latest intel drivers on there, and run the Trim tool in the SSD toolbox. If you have Windows 7, making sure you have TRIM enabled at the OS level is important too.
open an administrator command prompt (from right click) and enter the following command

fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify

If it returns '0' Trim is enabled, if not, run

fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0

Run an AS-SSD bench and post the results. If they are still bad, Run an AS-Clean with the ff checkbox ticked, and give it an hour or so after finishing. then Bench again and post the results.

Worst case we rule out a hardware defect by imaging to a backup drive, running an HDD-Erase, and restoring the image. This should put your benches back to your initial results. This is a lot of hassle though (need to restore alignment as well) so best to avoid it if possible.


It's worth noting that SSD's will degrade from new and settle into a long-term used state, but your X25 shouldn't have lost any more than 15% of it's initial bench performance. Yours definitely seems to have an issue with read speeds being that low.

 

[Antec900]

I get '0' but mines still the same as icebullets.

 

[support_bae]

Put the latest intel drivers on there, and run the Trim tool in the SSD toolbox. If you have Windows 7, making sure you have TRIM enabled at the OS level is important too.
open an administrator command prompt (from right click) and enter the following command

fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify

If it returns '0' Trim is enabled, if not, run

fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0

Run an AS-SSD bench and post the results. If they are still bad, Run an AS-Clean with the ff checkbox ticked, and give it an hour or so after finishing. then Bench again and post the results.

Worst case we rule out a hardware defect by imaging to a backup drive, running an HDD-Erase, and restoring the image. This should put your benches back to your initial results. This is a lot of hassle though (need to restore alignment as well) so best to avoid it if possible.


It's worth noting that SSD's will degrade from new and settle into a long-term used state, but your X25 shouldn't have lost any more than 15% of it's initial bench performance. Yours definitely seems to have an issue with read speeds being that low.

WRONG

Just because it returns 0 doesn't mean TRIM is enabled. It only means TRIM is supported by the Operating System.
Now stop giving false information.

 

[Zarf]

WRONG

Just because it returns 0 doesn't mean TRIM is enabled. It only means TRIM is supported by the Operating System.
Now stop giving false information.

Don't be such an arse, If you go back and read what i posted I said:

If you have Windows 7, making sure you have TRIM enabled at the OS level is important too.

Asking him to check if TRIM is an important diagnosis step because now we know that TRIM has been enabled at the OS level all along. Since we already knew that he had TRIM supported firmware (O2HD), and he was using the Win7 MSAHCI drivers which support TRIM, the OS level was the last link in the chain to check.
Not that i've implied otherwise but I do know that OS level TRIM support is not required to use the SSD Toolbox TRIM utility.


I'd advise you to read and think before you post in the future to avoid coming across as such a colossal twit.

 

[icedbullet]

Thanks Zarf I did the command prompt instructions and it returned a 0. So I just ran AS SSD again and had a nice surprise. I ran it 3 times to check, each time the result was around the same as posted below

The performance seems to have improved without me even lifting a finger...very weird. Any idea why that happened?

 

[Zarf]

Thanks Zarf I did the command prompt instructions and it returned a 0. So I just ran AS SSD again and had a nice surprise. I ran it 3 times to check, each time the result was around the same as posted below

The performance seems to have improved without me even lifting a finger...very weird. Any idea why that happened?

Hmm, that's the normal performance level for a used drive, maybe you had a background virus scan or something going during the poor benchmark?
Good to see it's working alright now though

If it gives a poor result in the future, open up resource monitor (start menu search will find it) and see how much disk activity is going on.