Just installed my Vertex2e and Results :(

[janesssssy]

Is this right? seems very low.

Rest of Specification:

E8400 @ 3.7Ghz
4Gb Ram
Gigabyte P35 DS3r

All settings are set to ACHI.

 

[janesssssy]

My old Western Digital that its replaced is only getting 50/60 so I guess its a massive improvment. Should the SSD be better though?

 

[ianh]

As HD Tune was designed around mechanical HHD's it uses Uncompressable data which is the worst test for a SSD (they compress data on the fly). Try ATTO benchmark, it's a SSD benchmark so will give true speeds (My Vertex 3 showed <200mb/s on HD Tune but 550mb/s on ATTO)

Link for ATTO BEnchmark on Softpedia

 

[DragonQ]

Is it plugged into SATA port 0? Are you using Intel RST drivers? Did you do a Secure Erase before installing Windows? Have you caused the drive to throttle by running lots of benchmarks that write incompressible data?

As above, HD Tune isn't a great benchmark for SSDs. Use ATTO to get OCZ's advertised benchmarks and AS-SSD to get speeds for incompressible data (but only do it once, more will slow the drive down).

Uncompressable data which is the worst test for a SSD (they compress data on the fly).

This is only true of SSDs that use the SandForce controller (e.g. OCZ & Corsair). Other controllers don't compress data on the fly (e.g. Intel and Crucial).

 

[janesssssy]

Yes it is plugged in to SATA port 0. I am now using the RST drivers. Thanks to both.

 

[setter]

I installed a 120gb vertex 2e bigfoot earlier, ran ATTO bench and heres my results.

 

[mraerosmith1981]

looks ok