Slow SSD performance on ASrock Z77 EX6, HELP!?

[Roverno]

Hi all,

About 2 weeks ago i decided to do an AS SSD speed test on my ssd to see if it was performing optimally because i felt my pc was slow than it used to be. Low and behold, my SSD score was around 400. Fairly poor for a crucial m4 that i have had for about 1 year (rig in sig). I did what i thought would fix the issue, driver and firmware updates etc. Updated mobo bios, ssd firmware and sata drivers etc for my motherboard. Increased the score to about 450 but very little noticeable difference.

From there is spoke to crucial and decided to RMA the drive. Today i got delivery of a brand new, sealed, crucial m4 with the 040H firmware. I was quite excited to get everything back to normal performance only to find that me AS SSD bench is not up to about 650. considering that i was getting 750-800 when i first had my original m4, i am a little gutted to be getting only 650 now.

Now at the end of the day its only a benchmark and real worlds performance over a period of time is still to be tested but im thinking there may be more at play here.

Does anybody have any thoughts on this or experienced anything similar? I'd rather not have to RMA my motherboard because i have a watercooled system and it is a slight pain in the a**e to take it all out.

Thoughts much appreciated on this as i think i've exhausted my own brain on this one.

Thanks all.

 

[Bane]

Did you perform the new benchmark on a fresh Windows only install? Or after you installed applications?

You could try a different S-ATA cable I suppose to rule out that.

Something to consider, if you are using a newer version of AS SSD benchmark, is may be the benchmark has changed thus resulting in lower reported results.

 

[Roverno]

Did you perform the new benchmark on a fresh Windows only install? Or after you installed applications?

You could try a different S-ATA cable I suppose to rule out that.

Something to consider, if you are using a newer version of AS SSD benchmark, is may be the benchmark has changed thus resulting in lower reported results.

I performed the benchmark with the SSD as a secondary drive with the os installed on a different SSD. both plugged into sata 3. The drive has not even had a single file onto it yet.

I will try a couple of cables but cant see it changing much.

i hadn't thought about the benchmark changing. I suppose this is highly possible but surely they would aim to get the scores to match? otherwise even on the same piece of software all old benchmarks would be redundant... hummm...

Wish i had a bunch of hardware so i could test everything :-/