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Evening fellas,
Few questions I was hoping you might help me with,
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Those are my test results, on the left the slightly better results are with write back cache enabled, my first question is do I want it enabled. (obviously the performance is a tiny bit better but I do not know how much this increases the risk of problems).
When I bought these drives (Two OCZ Vertex II's Pre-Sandforce) they were supposed to have 250MB/s "sustained" read AND write speed each, so these two in RAID0 in their prime should have been putting down at least 400 Read/Write (maybe??)
My second question is Are my drives performing at their best?, The sequential read looks great to me for two drives that are a few years old 392-395 MB/s but the write speed looks utter rubbish 84-100MB/s.
When I bought these they were the only SSD to advertise a sustained write speed the same as the read speed, From what I see in those tests mine are currently 1/4th (apprx) not equal.
Either they have slowed down a lot over the last couple of years (the write more so than the read) or the advertised speeds are rubbish and the write was never as good as the read. OR I haven't set my hard drives up properly.
Gigabyte EX58-Extreme, AHCI/RAID ENABLED
Updated: SSD firmware, Intel RST Drivers
Is there anything else I should be looking at setting/driver wise?
And finally what is the most current RST driver that is compatible with my X58 system, I read on a forum 11.7 so thats what I currently have installed and I didn't attempt to install the most current one on Intel's site which is 12.9.
Thankyou, sorry for all the questions.
D.
Few questions I was hoping you might help me with,
Those are my test results, on the left the slightly better results are with write back cache enabled, my first question is do I want it enabled. (obviously the performance is a tiny bit better but I do not know how much this increases the risk of problems).
When I bought these drives (Two OCZ Vertex II's Pre-Sandforce) they were supposed to have 250MB/s "sustained" read AND write speed each, so these two in RAID0 in their prime should have been putting down at least 400 Read/Write (maybe??)
My second question is Are my drives performing at their best?, The sequential read looks great to me for two drives that are a few years old 392-395 MB/s but the write speed looks utter rubbish 84-100MB/s.
When I bought these they were the only SSD to advertise a sustained write speed the same as the read speed, From what I see in those tests mine are currently 1/4th (apprx) not equal.
Either they have slowed down a lot over the last couple of years (the write more so than the read) or the advertised speeds are rubbish and the write was never as good as the read. OR I haven't set my hard drives up properly.
Gigabyte EX58-Extreme, AHCI/RAID ENABLED
Updated: SSD firmware, Intel RST Drivers
Is there anything else I should be looking at setting/driver wise?
And finally what is the most current RST driver that is compatible with my X58 system, I read on a forum 11.7 so thats what I currently have installed and I didn't attempt to install the most current one on Intel's site which is 12.9.
Thankyou, sorry for all the questions.
D.
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