Intel X25-M 80GB Large Performance Drop

[Outpost262]

Hmm, that's the normal performance level for a used drive...

Looks very steep to me for a contemporary SSD on a TRIM enabled system. That's still almost a 25% drop off (using the overall score).

Look at this quote from this article:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/02/04/windows-7-ssd-performance-and-trim/14

"The Intel X25-M 160GB’s trim performance is simply superb right across the board, with almost none of the performance degradation we saw with the drive in its dirty pre-trim state. Sequential read and write speeds are completely unchanged from the drive in its new state despite over 1TB of data having been written to it and the same is true in every other test – there’s almost no difference between the drive from its new to heavily used state once we enable trim."

- emphasis mine.


I strongly suspect that TRIM just isn't working when we see results like those in this thread, and that performance will continue to decline with more drive use to levels seen in that article.

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[Cesar67]

I have the same performance degradation with this drive, Going to re-install windows soon but, It's a mystery why it's so bad !

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18154102

 

[skid00skid00]

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.

Don't waste time running as-clean. I played *extensively* with various programs to try to speed up my 9 month old G1's, and nothing really worked until I ran HDDErase. That put me exactly back to as-new performance. Do the secure erase, and then *don't* bench the drive back to messed-up status.

 

[skid00skid00]

Just for some background, here's 9 months of AS SSD results in graph form, on my two G1's:

F: is my swap drive, and didn't plunge like C: did. Secure erase picked them right back up.

 

[Zarf]

Looks very steep to me for a contemporary SSD on a TRIM enabled system. That's still almost a 25% drop off (using the overall score).

Look at this quote from this article:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/sto...ce-and-trim/14

"The Intel X25-M 160GB’s trim performance is simply superb right across the board, with almost none of the performance degradation we saw with the drive in its dirty pre-trim state. Sequential read and write speeds are completely unchanged from the drive in its new state despite over 1TB of data having been written to it and the same is true in every other test – there’s almost no difference between the drive from its new to heavily used state once we enable trim."

- emphasis mine.


I strongly suspect that TRIM just isn't working when we see results like those in this thread, and that performance will continue to decline with more drive use to levels seen in that article.

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It's a sharp points drop due to the way AS-SSD weights, but in reality you're only losing a bit of 4k performance, and it's not dropping to levels that you'd actually notice it at - 35MB/s is still twice what a gen1 Vertex is pushing. Sequential scores remain as-new.

Don't waste time running as-clean. I played *extensively* with various programs to try to speed up my 9 month old G1's, and nothing really worked until I ran HDDErase. That put me exactly back to as-new performance. Do the secure erase, and then *don't* bench the drive back to messed-up status.

Yeah, that was my experience with it also (followed the whole tony trim guide) on my RAID0 G2's. Some people say it works for them though, so i thought i'd throw it out there.

I'm preparing to format/hdderase/reinstall this morning, had this install for the best part of 9 months and cloning to the RAID messed up partition alignment.

It's not needed from a speed perspective, I've got about 20 startup items but can still be playing TF2 within 25 seconds of the windows logo ... but the alignment thing has been bugging me for a while and I'm taking it as a pretty good opportunity to clean out the crap and move to a single partition design -which should make cloning and realigning with gparted a bit less hassle in future.

 

[Antec900]

Hey guys, Hope the OP dont mind me asking a few questions.

Im having the same benchmarks and im thinking of updating the firmware to 02HD. Is this something i should do?

Many Thanks