Very slow SSD in certain situations
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Crystaldiskmark is another good bench that you could use to crossreference the results with.
Unfortunately I don't know this particular SSD. Have you checked on google for benchmarks of it?
I had a slowness problem previously and it was due to me having SATA configured as IDE and not as AHCI in the mobo BIOS. Could that be it?
Unfortunately I don't know this particular SSD. Have you checked on google for benchmarks of it?
I had a slowness problem previously and it was due to me having SATA configured as IDE and not as AHCI in the mobo BIOS. Could that be it?
Quoted from the Patriot site http://www.patriotmemory.com/produc...ne=8&group=PS-100 Solid State Drives&catid=21 :
Looking at your board, it uses Marvell SATA 3 ports, and honestly it's a load of crap. So make sure you're using the black SATA ports which are wired up to the native Intel controller. Your SSD only runs at SATA 2 speeds anyway.
Also make sure your SATA mode is running in AHCI mode and not IDE. If it is, you need to run this first, restart into BIOS then change to AHCI, and boot up to Windows again.
This benchmark is better to test SSDs: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1749/ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.46.html
Looking at your board, it uses Marvell SATA 3 ports, and honestly it's a load of crap. So make sure you're using the black SATA ports which are wired up to the native Intel controller. Your SSD only runs at SATA 2 speeds anyway.
Also make sure your SATA mode is running in AHCI mode and not IDE. If it is, you need to run this first, restart into BIOS then change to AHCI, and boot up to Windows again.
This benchmark is better to test SSDs: http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1749/ATTO Disk Benchmark v2.46.html
You could check what firmware it uses, as 3.011 is the most recent.
When you ran AS SSD benchmark did it list the partition alignment in green (this is in the top left and is visible as soon as open program without having to perform benchmark).
AS SSD will also report what SATA controller driver is install, e.g. msahci, iastore.
And have you got drive connected to Intel SATA port zero instead of other brands (not checked motherboard specs).
When you ran AS SSD benchmark did it list the partition alignment in green (this is in the top left and is visible as soon as open program without having to perform benchmark).
AS SSD will also report what SATA controller driver is install, e.g. msahci, iastore.
And have you got drive connected to Intel SATA port zero instead of other brands (not checked motherboard specs).