** SSD MEGA TEST ** Want to know whats best for you? Look inside!! UPDATE 14/02/2012

[ArchAndroid]

your not running in ahci mode

pciide=bad

It's my parents' Dell Inspiron 530 meaning it can't be changed in the BIOS.

 

[IC3]

In my build I have a intel 520 120gb, very fast SSD.

 

[stulid]

In my build I have a intel 520 120gb, very fast SSD.

Get some benches up.

 

[IC3]

Get some benches up.

Here you go

Default settings

 

[dhill]

IC3 those results seem to be a lot slower than my Samsung 840 Pro, although I am running mine in performance mode.

Do you have a performance mode you can change to for your Intel drive? If so, would be helpful to see the results for that.

 

[stulid]

My Intel 520 240GB does this (fresh drive) - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18416484

Cant see a 120GB model being that much worse.

 

[dhill]

My Intel 520 240GB does this (fresh drive) - http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18416484

Cant see a 120GB model being that much worse.

Any idea why there is such a difference with the 4k writes between your Intel 520 and my Samsung 840 Pro?

 

[stulid]

Any idea why there is such a difference with the 4k writes between your Intel 520 and my Samsung 840 Pro?

The SSD isnt as new a design?

let me connect it back up and do a run now ( i recently secure erased it and put it in its box)

Edit, although it will be on a Marvel SATAIII port.

 

[dhill]

I'm having a play with my system as well to see if I can increase my 4k write speeds.

Have just downloaded the most recent Intel RST Drivers and am going to disable Intel Speed Step, C1E, C-States etc in the BIOS and re-run the tests myself to see if I get an improvement.

Be back soon.....

 

[Locky]

Here is some benchmarks of the 480GB M500

 

[dhill]

Ok, I have some interesting results.

All I've changed since my last set of results is that I've installed the latest Intel RST Drivers (11.7.0.1013) and disabled Intel Speed Step, C1E, C-States etc in the BIOS.

Before driver and BIOS changes:


After driver and BIOS changes:


Interesting set of results following the changes I must say.

 

[stulid]

I ran it again the performance is worse as I would have expected using a rubbish Marvel port.

 

[dhill]

So any idea as to why my AS SSD Benchmark results have all improved except for the 4k-64Thrd write test and the CrystalDiskMark 4k QD32 tests?

 

[stulid]

I dont, but I think you will never get the same result twice as the SSD controller does its TRIM/Garbage colection role to try and keep performance high.

 

[dhill]

Ok, seems like I was having a blonde moment for a second there....helps if you remember to turn the Anti-Virus first before running the tests. Doh!

 

[thenewoc]

Here's my Vertex 4 256GB

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18460872

 

[trickynickyuk]

hows these for my SSD

 

[Guest2]

hows these for my SSD

My Crucial M4 gets the following (p55 board)

241/258
630

 

[Locky]

hows these for my SSD

You have the 4k 64thrd problem that Crucial M4's suffer with and Crucial won't admit there is a problem despite a massive thread on their forums about this issue and LOADS Of people moaning about it.



http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/low-4K-64Thrd-with-AS-SSD/td-p/84448/page/40

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-S...ginal-speed/td-p/80100/highlight/false/page/4

 

[Guest2]

My m4 gets 186.30mb/148.89mb on the 4k-64thrd

Do only some suffer or is it a combination of other things? (Drivers, motherboard etc)