What's going on with my Vertex 2?!

morguk · 14 Mar 2011 at 18:08

Hi guys. New build, using my new Vertex 2e SSD and it's very fast. Decided to run a bench and the write speeds don't look too good

Thng is, I did everything right? Set up as ACHI. Install Win 64. TRIM is enabled. Ran SSD Tweeker. Disabled system restore, hibernation and sleep.

Here is what I got..

BTW firmware is 127, I see the latest is 129 but I can't update as it's my primary drive.

matthab · 14 Mar 2011 at 18:29

What speed is the SATA port?

How much have you got running in the back ground?

morguk · 14 Mar 2011 at 18:36

It's SATA 3gbps. I do have a 6gbps board (AMD) but I left it at auto in the BIOS as these drives are only sata 3gbps. Nothing else running

Metalface Mark · 14 Mar 2011 at 18:40

Doesnt look that slow, i just ran mine (playing poker, listening to music, few other things in background)

I get

Seq - 208.9 - write - 88.58
512k - 200.1 - write 86.50
4k - 20.32 - write 72.45
4k qd32 - 114.0 write 86.86

120gb version

morguk · 14 Mar 2011 at 18:59

Yeah that's quite a bit more though, especially the write. Also my system was doing nothing while yours wasn doing other stuff

Does anyone think it's because I've got an AMD board or because I used that SSD Tweeker program?

Metalface Mark · 14 Mar 2011 at 19:40

Have you tried a different sata port? I know i had slow bench speed initially and turned out having it in a different port increased the speed by quite a bit. Bit of trial an error on my boards part. (not amd btw)

ewarwoowar · 14 Mar 2011 at 19:47

I think the 3 things to disable used to be: Superfetch, windows indexing service and windows search. As they increase constant writes on your drive which could wear it a little.

Try disable them ( Do a bit of googling) And then leave your SSD idle for a little while for TRIM to kick in then give it another go

morguk · 14 Mar 2011 at 19:54

Cheers guys. Will try that and report back!

jimmy321 · 14 Mar 2011 at 19:59

Use ATTO Disk Benchmark for OCZ Vertex 2

Crystal Disk gives different readings

5er driver · 15 Mar 2011 at 09:13

OCZ's published read/write specs are based on ATTO as are most manufacturers SSDs.

Supernaut91 · 15 Mar 2011 at 10:02

if you want to update you can, although you will most likely not see a difference since there are no official changes from your version to 1.29.
Anyhow I developed a more simplistic guide on how to do this using linux(one from OCZ site.)
I also made a video showing the step by step procedure.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18236428&highlight=Bunyan

ewarwoowar · 15 Mar 2011 at 10:22

I always bench with ATTO. The most accuracte Benchy there is for SSDs. Shows me my speeds that it says in for the drive spec even after gaming, itunes + more.

Corsair Force 160gb here

pepp77 · 15 Mar 2011 at 10:25

Use Atto - http://www.attotech.com/products/product.php?sku=Disk_Benchmark

The reason being that Atto is the only tester currently that can benchmark Sandforce drives properly due to the way they compress stored data.

morguk · 15 Mar 2011 at 17:29

OK guys I added an IDE HD and even though my SATA ports are set to ACHI, in the hard disk manager it said my vertex was IDE??

Here's my ATTO. Does it look OK?

Also here's my bootspeed results.

pepp77 · 15 Mar 2011 at 18:33

Thats fine.

morguk · 15 Mar 2011 at 19:04

Cool cheers