OCZ SSD too slow ?

Broken Hope · 10 Oct 2010 at 14:56

Looks like you've benched it too much, the firmware has throttled the writes back a lot, you can see that from the AS SSD results.

bulldog147 · 10 Oct 2010 at 15:04

Maybe the software issues ? I wish OCZ had it own benchmark for SSD to test it out proper, not happy about write speed was awful at around 86MB/s on the AS SSD benchmark.

Maybe OCZ latest firmware is faulty ?

Broken Hope · 10 Oct 2010 at 15:27

bulldog147 said:
Maybe the software issues ? I wish OCZ had it own benchmark for SSD to test it out proper, not happy about write speed was awful at around 86MB/s on the AS SSD benchmark.

Maybe OCZ latest firmware is faulty ?

It's just how Sandforce drives are and why I personally wouldn't ever own one.

Look at this thread, post 209 onwards.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...Erase-TRIM-and-anything-else-Sandforce/page14

Writing too much data to the drive in a short period of time, which benchmarking accelerates, kills the write speed.

Boozebeard · 10 Oct 2010 at 15:37

Also running all those benchmarks is only going to fill up your nand and then you'll have to secure erase it to get performance back...

Basically what Broken Hope said.

Amidar · 10 Oct 2010 at 15:40

bulldog147 said:
Maybe the software issues ? I wish OCZ had it own benchmark for SSD to test it out proper, not happy about write speed was awful at around 86MB/s on the AS SSD benchmark.

Maybe OCZ latest firmware is faulty ?

Sorry to say but the issue here is you, you have destroyed that drive with all your benching.

bulldog147 · 10 Oct 2010 at 15:56

Amidar said:
Sorry to say but the issue here is you, you have destroyed that drive with all your benching.

I didn't know it, I shouldn't have benching it. I have to go through secure erase, how will I get it ?

hartty · 10 Oct 2010 at 15:57

Amidar said:
Sorry to say but the issue here is you, you have destroyed that drive with all your benching.

have to agree even after everyone said use atto for these drives you still go and post 4 other benchmarks

bulldog147 · 10 Oct 2010 at 16:09

Hold on, Are you saying ATTO benchmark is safer for SSD benchmark without throttled the writes back ?

Where is the best tool to secure erase to get my SSD performance back as where I was first brought it.

hartty · 10 Oct 2010 at 16:29

not that its safer just no need for all the benching,as for secure erase use this tutorial http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?74093-How-to-use-HDDErase you will need to make a bootable floppy or usb http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm

bulldog147 · 10 Oct 2010 at 19:46

Many thanks, I had done Secure Erase and installing windows 7, then installing chipset drivers, then installing graphic drivers and the rest then updated all windows up to date. It now reading windows index score had gone up to 7.8 now and I will not use any HDD benchmark anymore cos it can ruining your SSD performance reduce!

It sound bit stupid. Why is SSD dislike any benchmark ?

I now got Windows 7 Professional x64 SSD as a main operating system and now I want to add the storage, shall I buy another SSD for storage or just use a normal Samsang F1 1TB HDD as a storage for video's, music's, backup, docs & photos.

garsands · 10 Oct 2010 at 20:19

2nd post

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?74681-OCZ-Sandforce-(Agility2-Vertex2)-expected-Benchmarks-and-General-Info

hartty · 10 Oct 2010 at 20:28

bulldog147 said:
Many thanks, I had done Secure Erase and installing windows 7, then installing chipset drivers, then installing graphic drivers and the rest then updated all windows up to date. It now reading windows index score had gone up to 7.8 now and I will not use any HDD benchmark anymore cos it can ruining your SSD performance reduce!

It sound bit stupid. Why is SSD dislike any benchmark ?

I now got Windows 7 Professional x64 SSD as a main operating system and now I want to add the storage, shall I buy another SSD for storage or just use a normal Samsang F1 1TB HDD as a storage for video's, music's, backup, docs & photos.

nice one im glad your happy with it now and got it sorted also you can still run a benchmark now and then just not to many one after another

Devrij · 10 Oct 2010 at 21:25

Supposedly the permanent performance loss (without resorting to secure erase) after recovery time from a fully degraded state is only about 30%. I'd be interested to see the OP's speeds after a week of normal use.

bulldog147 · 10 Oct 2010 at 21:56

I just ran winsat disk :

Read was 263MB/s
Write was 262MB/s

I just ran ATTO Disk Benchmark just one off:

Both Read and Write look appear to be fine!