The OCZ Vertex 3 Thread

Cosimo · 17 Apr 2011 at 14:41

Craig321 said:
Is there any way to disable the Marvell controller if I'm not using it? So it doesn't post?

You should be able to do it in the bios. On the R3E its Advanced/Onboard Devices Config/ Marvell9xxx Controller then disable.

dfarrall · 17 Apr 2011 at 15:37

Just installed my vertex 3 today, wow impressive stuff , fast as hell!
However occasionally its making my system hang for around 30 secs - 1 min and i have no idea why!

Enabled AHCI in bios then installed windows then drivers for windows and intel RST10, turned off defrag ran windows experiance, did a benchmark with results similar to above!

Any ideas welcome!

1kiwi · 17 Apr 2011 at 15:59

Could be RST10 drivers. I had that board and with these drivers it stalled. Check your event monitor looking for iastor errors. Also check this thread.

dfarrall · 17 Apr 2011 at 16:40

beh* said:
Could be RST10 drivers. I had that board and with these drivers it stalled. Check your event monitor looking for iastor errors. Also check this thread.

Can confirm i was getting the iastor errors, and the exactly symptoms of others. Applied this fix:

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-S...eze-ups-in-Windows-7-solved-for-me/td-p/38766

Bench results have gone up significantly on smaller transfers - Will report back to whether it hangs again or not.

Craig321 · 17 Apr 2011 at 19:39

simulatorman said:
You should be able to do it in the bios. On the R3E its Advanced/Onboard Devices Config/ Marvell9xxx Controller then disable.

I didn't notice any option to disable it, but then I wasn't specifically looking for that. I'll check it out, thanks

Atavist · 18 Apr 2011 at 22:35

dfarrall said:
Can confirm i was getting the iastor errors, and the exactly symptoms of others. Applied this fix:

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-S...eze-ups-in-Windows-7-solved-for-me/td-p/38766

Bench results have gone up significantly on smaller transfers - Will report back to whether it hangs again or not.

Thank you for posting that fix. I had the same issue: 30 sec long lock-up and iaStor error (had it roughly once per evening for a couple of days or so). For info: 240GB Vertex 3 on Intel 6GB/s SATA on P67 MEIV with RS version 10.1.0.1008.

Can also report that the registry entries in the suggested fix seem to have an impact on performance for smaller read/writes. ATTO now reports 24MB/s for 0.5KB whereas before it was around 17MB/s (from memory). No impact for longer segments that I can notice (ATTO maxes out at 560MB/s for 4MB so I can't really ask for more

)

1kiwi · 18 Apr 2011 at 22:47

dfarrall said:
Can confirm i was getting the iastor errors, and the exactly symptoms of others. Applied this fix:

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-S...eze-ups-in-Windows-7-solved-for-me/td-p/38766

Bench results have gone up significantly on smaller transfers - Will report back to whether it hangs again or not.

Nice one. Not had the issue on my UD4, might try the fix though!

Hamster · 19 Apr 2011 at 00:10

I've just bought one of these which will hopefully be here this week but it's going to be another week or two before I'm able to upgrade my ageing 939 system to a new Sandybridge setup. I don't think my current motherboard supports AHCI (DFI RDX2000 CF-DR) though.

I want to make an image of my current system and put it onto the Vertex3.

1) Which imaging software would be a good choice?
2) I read something about needing a 2048 sector aligned partition so how should I prepare the Vertex3?
3) Are there any other setting changes I need to make in Windows? (I'm running Win7 64bit.)

Thanks

lab_rat · 19 Apr 2011 at 10:14

I am after one of these, but seems everywhere is waiting on stock.

My question is: Anyone used one of these on a 890FX AMD board, am wondering what speeds to expect? I have a Gigabyte ud5 board.

SUPERHAPPYRICHM · 19 Apr 2011 at 10:21

Just to recap The OCZ Vertex 3 is fastest SDD drive on market? ta

Craig321 · 19 Apr 2011 at 18:17

Hamster said:
I've just bought one of these which will hopefully be here this week but it's going to be another week or two before I'm able to upgrade my ageing 939 system to a new Sandybridge setup. I don't think my current motherboard supports AHCI (DFI RDX2000 CF-DR) though.

I want to make an image of my current system and put it onto the Vertex3.

1) Which imaging software would be a good choice?
2) I read something about needing a 2048 sector aligned partition so how should I prepare the Vertex3?
3) Are there any other setting changes I need to make in Windows? (I'm running Win7 64bit.)

Thanks

I can't really comment on your questions as I don't know, but I personally would stay away from imaging a mechanical drive to an SSD. Is there any reason why you can't just start fresh and copy over the necessary settings etc. across from AppData on your old drive?

Hamster · 19 Apr 2011 at 19:10

Craig321 said:
I can't really comment on your questions as I don't know, but I personally would stay away from imaging a mechanical drive to an SSD. Is there any reason why you can't just start fresh and copy over the necessary settings etc. across from AppData on your old drive?

I could start afresh but as I'm upgrading my pc soon, and when I do I will definitely be doing a fresh install, I'd prefer not to have to do twice as I have a lot of software installed.

malcolm · 19 Apr 2011 at 20:30

Hamster said:
I've just bought one of these which will hopefully be here this week but it's going to be another week or two before I'm able to upgrade my ageing 939 system to a new Sandybridge setup. I don't think my current motherboard supports AHCI (DFI RDX2000 CF-DR) though.

I want to make an image of my current system and put it onto the Vertex3.

1) Which imaging software would be a good choice?
2) I read something about needing a 2048 sector aligned partition so how should I prepare the Vertex3?
3) Are there any other setting changes I need to make in Windows? (I'm running Win7 64bit.)

Thanks

I did this using Acronis when I first bought an Intel SSD. It worked OK, but when I reloaded to go from Win7 RC to released version a couple of months later it was much better.

lab_rat · 19 Apr 2011 at 20:37

No1 running on amd sata 3?

Hamster · 19 Apr 2011 at 20:59

lab_rat said:
No1 running on amd sata 3?

Bog standard Sata 1 (1.5Gb/s)

lab_rat · 20 Apr 2011 at 18:14

Hamster said:
Bog standard Sata 1 (1.5Gb/s)

haha, I need someone whos got an AMD 890fx board to gimmie a heads up on max speeds plz. I have a drive on pre order.

lab_rat · 20 Apr 2011 at 18:16

My vertex 2 is causing my PSU to whine for some reason I cannot fathom so out of desperation am going to try & upgrade to get rid of the frustration & hopefully a slight improvement on speed.

Craig321 · 20 Apr 2011 at 20:46

lab_rat said:
haha, I need someone whos got an AMD 890fx board to gimmie a heads up on max speeds plz. I have a drive on pre order.

Get a 6Gb/s card ordered!

jimmy321 · 20 Apr 2011 at 20:49

lab_rat said:
My vertex 2 is causing my PSU to whine for some reason I cannot fathom so out of desperation am going to try & upgrade to get rid of the frustration & hopefully a slight improvement on speed.

The SSD or the PSU?

Being semi serious, PSU's can whine when there on the way out or over stressed, not that your SSD will ever stress your PSU.

dfarrall · 20 Apr 2011 at 22:58

lab_rat said:
My vertex 2 is causing my PSU to whine for some reason I cannot fathom so out of desperation am going to try & upgrade to get rid of the frustration & hopefully a slight improvement on speed.

Are you sure its the vertex 2? Obviously the whining is normal in PSU's occasionally so unless your wanting to upgrade anyway you might not see a difference.