SDD benchmarking help

threedee

threedee

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I know that benching system disk is not the way to do serious testing.
I just wanted to see what benchmarks would show and i'm only getting about 150mb/s sequential reading, which is waaayyyy under what it supposed to be reading at... or not ???

Could anyone who's in possession of Corsair Force3 120gb disk as a boot disk do an HD Tune benchmark for sequential reading ?

#EDIT1# Lessons learned today:
1. Not all benchmarking software suitable for certain drives (to do with sandforce ?);
2. Dont forget to switch from IDE mode in BIOS when switching from old rickety HDD to lightning fast SSD...
3. I know **** about SSD's apparently... need to study... :D
 
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you should bench with atto for sandforce drives

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thats what i get with my corsair force gt 60gb
 
look in as ssd benchmark just load it and take screenshot n post here,are you in ahci mode?? as ssd will tell you

it should be quicker than that,like mine
 
I'm still on original FW 1.3.2. Wouldn't it be one of the recalled disks ?

Latest FW according to Corsair is something like 5.0.2, but do i have to update ?

I am "stable", except the speed is (relatively) sucky at the moment...
 
im on 1.3.3 but mines different as its gt model,see what ahci does first for the speeds,if its still slow id update to latest firmware,you have to have the ssd as a slave drive though,meaning you have to boot with windows from another hdd or ssd and update the firmware with your ssd plugged in

if your in ide mode then speeds wont be good,ahci is a must for ssd's
 
Pre AHCI switch and reg import:

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Post AHCI switch and reg import:

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Not much difference if at all... Except fro no more PCIIDE BAD...
 
atto will be more accurate for sandforce,writes are less important than reads

you could try updating fw,but if its stable i dont see any need,idk if it improves read/writes
 
Lessons learned today:
1. Not all benchmarking software suitable for certain drives (to do with sandforce ?);
2. Dont forget to switch from IDE mode in BIOS when switching from old rickety HDD to lightning fast SSD...
3. I know **** about SSD's apparently... need to study... :D

P.S. Sorted ?
 
yeah,both tests are correct its just sandforce drives score less or more for compression-able data, with as ssd/crystal disk benchmarks,speeds look fine now
 
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