OCZ Agility 3 Disappointing Performance

Justintime · 30 Jul 2012 at 01:58

Does sounds like a controller/firmware problem with that particular drive. Not had any Agility 3s show that issue though.

wazza300 · 30 Jul 2012 at 02:06

could be bios incompatibility if its an asrock board,ive seen loads of graphic card issues/incompatibilities,dont know if it applies to ssd's also

Justintime · 30 Jul 2012 at 04:42

Nope, got lots of client rigs out there with that board and Agility 3s running and benching fine, cheap board though, rather higher than average failure rate.

vipergrm · 30 Jul 2012 at 14:18

Justintime said:
Nope, got lots of client rigs out there with that board and Agility 3s running and benching fine, cheap board though, rather higher than average failure rate.

What constitutes 'cheap'? And if the failure rate is so high why are you fitting them in client machines? I bought this board because of the excellent reviews it received. There are much cheaper, less capable boards available so that comment doesn't really help my situation

wazza300 · 30 Jul 2012 at 14:20

could be the drive itself and the boards fine? only way to know is test with another ssd?

have you actually done a brand new clean install of windows with ahci set in bios first?

vipergrm · 30 Jul 2012 at 14:22

The Crucial C300 benchmarks ran perfectly fine so I suspect the drive. We will see how the replacement Samsung 830 does. Should get it tomorrow

Justintime · 30 Jul 2012 at 23:28

vipergrm said:
What constitutes 'cheap'? And if the failure rate is so high why are you fitting them in client machines? I bought this board because of the excellent reviews it received. There are much cheaper, less capable boards available so that comment doesn't really help my situation

Well i got them for like 50.00 each for 27 a long time ago, was a bargain at the time but the failure rate is higher than i'd like in the duration since then, 30% i believe. I'm not 'still' fitting those boards, the problems didn't crop up until a few months after all had been used. They were brand new but had no warranty as it was a liquidation and Asrock don't deal with purchasers directly, your warranty is with the retailer. I previously used the P67 Pro3 which was decent but still a bit shaky for reliability as the years have gone by. Most of my builds are mainly Asus mid and high end boards.

It 'is' a cheap board, most Asrocks are, being Asus's 'budget' arm via Pegatron (should see some of the crud they make for OEM machines!) though sometimes they represent good value for money. Not in this case i find.

vipergrm · 31 Jul 2012 at 19:02

Ok, today my Samsung 830 128GB SSD arrived and here are the results..

Samsung 830 128GB SSD

Versus OCZ Agility 3...

This proves that it was either a compatibility issue or the SSD was just plain faulty. The Samsung drive worked fine first time around and those speeds look good to me. Also the access times are much better.

wazza300 · 31 Jul 2012 at 21:54

glad it was the ssd and nothing else,id ask for replacement and sell it still sealed

vipergrm · 31 Jul 2012 at 22:22

wazza300 said:
glad it was the ssd and nothing else,id ask for replacement and sell it still sealed

It's ok I've returned it as defective and requested a refund. I didn't get the SSD from OCUK. I got it from some company named after a river or something

Roalith · 1 Aug 2012 at 08:07

Wish I'd have found this thread about 6 weeks ago, I had a bitch of a time getting my 120gb Agility 3 up and running too - although I'm on an Asrock Extreme 3 (AMD 970 chipset) board.

Eventually got it working - was really surprised that there are such things as SATA 3 cables though, I can tell you!

Justintime · 1 Aug 2012 at 10:19

Roalith said:
- was really surprised that there are such things as SATA 3 cables though, I can tell you!

No theres cheap tat that wouldn't carry the signal properly and then theres good cables that'll do all speeds without issues

vipergrm · 1 Aug 2012 at 12:51

My cable wasn't the issue. It was the same cable I used in the Samsung 830 and it worked perfectly. I did already try other cables anyway. I still have no clue why the drive didn't work properly!