The OCZ Vertex 3 Thread

beh* said:
Your using ATTO? Crystal etc gives me 170 write but it's BS.
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Yeah I just realised. It was strange though. I kept getting 170MB on the writes, even after different drivers and restarts. Now it just won't get there.
 
Oh I don't bloody believe it! Just spent about 6 hours getting it to work and now I'm greeted with 'BOOTMGR is missing'! I have never had so much trouble with a drive!

EDIT: great. Windows disk fails to repair it as well. This is te 4th installation of Windows now! I am going to try one last time using the SATA II controller.

EDIT2: nope, it repaired it second time around. What a fiasco.
 
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After pretty much a full day of testing/troubleshooting/benching, I think I can safely say that 1034 drivers are the best. I tried the 1051 again but I kept having random drops in speed, Windows would hang etc. 1034 doesn't give me any problems and the results appear to be consistant. I also found the stock Windows AHCI drivers to be very good too.
 
I'm looking at getting a V3. Could someone tell me which port I should use on my Asus P7P55D Intel P55 Motherboard.

StorageIntel® P55 Express Chipset
- 6 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports

JMicron® JMB363 SATA & PATA controller:
- 1 x SATA 3Gb/s port
 
pinkpound said:
Hello

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heres mine on a Giga X58 UD5 on the intel sataII port
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Looking at those results I'm considering plugging mine into the SATA II even more. Everything is the same apart from my sequential reads are around 100MB faster but I doubt that makes any real world difference tbh. The bonus would be getting rid of the controller at post and having good drivers.. Hmmm :(
 
Br4d said:
How Many people suffer from this so Called "Hang" its putting me off buying one...
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Depends what hangs you are on about? Usage hangs, Windows installation hangs, or complete system freezes?

I personally have only experienced usage hangs although that seems to be driver dependant.

On another note, does this screenshot indicate that TRIM is not working? The drive speeds drop at the beginning of the drive yet the rest is flat?

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Well here are some final benchmarks. The 1034 are pretty stable and I haven't had a single hang since using them.

The ATTO benchmarks seem fine. As for AS SSD, very disappointing tbh. Not sure TRIM is working properly, when I first ran AS SSD I got around 170MB/s write, now it's struggling to hit 135MB/s regardless of what driver I use.

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This was the first time I benched the drive using the same drivers:

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VortX, the amount of benchmarking you're doing with incompressible data has put the drive into a "settled" or "throttled" state, reducing performance. After a secure erase and install of Windows, you should just do one AS-SSD or CDM benchmark to check it's OK. After that, do ATTO only.
 
DragonQ said:
VortX, the amount of benchmarking you're doing with incompressible data has put the drive into a "settled" or "throttled" state, reducing performance. After a secure erase and install of Windows, you should just do one AS-SSD or CDM benchmark to check it's OK. After that, do ATTO only.
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That was running through my mind. Do you know if it will recover over time or is it now going to sit a fat dull and happy at these speeds?

I can't run secure erase due to my BIOS, and I'm sure as hell not going to hot plug it :(.
 
It will recover somewhat but it'll never return to "new" speeds without a secure erase.

The work-around for motherboards locking drives (whereby you unplug the power cable and plug it back in whilst the machine is running, obviously not when booting from the SSD) is supported by OCZ and as far as I know there haven't been any topics about drives dying this way. After all, hot-plugging is supported by SATA in AHCI mode.
 
Hello all!

Just finished my new build, Overclocked 2600K bundle, with 16G of ram(!!!!), and a Vertex 3... yeah, I'll be the coolest kid on the block for about 2 weeks until the new stuff comes out :D Anyway, this thing is totally SMOKING, here's a screenshot of my benchmarks on the shiny new win7 installation.

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I think it's hitting a hard limit on the atto benchmark on 559 M/s for the last few - it's on the Intel Sata 6G interface. This thing seriously just installed firefox 4 in under a second. Wow! Seriously impressed. rjkoneill, as I know you built this one, thanks SO MUCH and wow, your work is awesome :)
 
DragonQ said:
It will recover somewhat but it'll never return to "new" speeds without a secure erase.

The work-around for motherboards locking drives (whereby you unplug the power cable and plug it back in whilst the machine is running, obviously not when booting from the SSD) is supported by OCZ and as far as I know there haven't been any topics about drives dying this way. After all, hot-plugging is supported by SATA in AHCI mode.
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It may be supported but I don't fully trust it. Plugging in a live cable into any electronic device is never safe. USB-type drives support it but a SATA power cable packs a bit more punch in terms of electricity. Also, you plug a USB drive into a power regulated motherboard. Power cable > SSD is a direct AC connection. Personally I can't see how it is safe directly plugging in a highly sensitive NAND flash device into a live 1050W PSU lol.

Taken directly from OCZ's site:
Q: How can I bypass the Security Lock?
A: You can try the following:
1. Boot your SSD to another computer.
2. Switch your SSD to another SATA channel.
3. Hot Plug your SSD (Dangerous):
Turn your PC off.
Unplug your SSD power cable but leave signal cable in.
Power back on your system, complete boot, re-attach your SSD power.
4. Set a password for your SSD in your BIOS.
 
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