Show us your SSD performance 2

That score looks good to me,.....

Here are some numbers for my SSD's. I started with the Crucial C300 when they first came out and still has Firmware 002 in it. Never saw a reason to update the firmware.

I recently bought a single Vertex 3 250G then decided to get another one. to run in Raid 0.
I also got 2 Vertex 4 256G to try them in Raid as well.

Vertex 3 Single 240G with firmware 2.15


Vertex 3 240G in Raid0 with firmware 2.2


Vertex 4 256G in Raid0 with firmware 1.4R


Crucial C300 256G Single with firmware 002
Tested 05/15/2012


Crucial C300 256G Single with firmware 002
Tested 09/13/2010 when first bought.


I am a really dissapointed at the Vertex 4 Raid compared to the Vertex 3 Raid. Besides the numbers, the Vertex 3 seems to have a little better performance.

I am really amazed at the C300 as I have never done a secure erase and it seems to be a little faster now as opposed to when I first bought it.
The only thing I did was to get it to work under Raid in bios. I had originally set the bios to AHCI.
I tried the registry change thing which should have worked as it has worked in the past but for some reason, it didn't work with this one. All I was getting is the Windows logo, then reboot, over and over.

After several days of trying I finally loaded an earlier image, got it to boot, then loaded a differential image to bring it up to the present.

BTW, I am using Intel RSTe drivers for the Raid systems version 3.0.0.2020.

Intel's 11.5 RST drivers that is supposed to pass Trim does not work with the Alpha version from what I have read.
The latest version on Station-Drivers is 11.5.0.1347.
intel drivers pour Raid/Sata/Ata/Ahci

I think I have to wait until Asus releases a chipset driver that will work with the released Intel drivers that pass trim.
Does anyone know about this?

whs said:

This is interesting. The 4K write performance of the Vertex3 single is better than the Vertex3 Raid. I wonder why.

I am not sure either. I did update the firmware on the Vertex 3's before I put it into raid though.

On the OCZ forum and they say that the V4 is a much better drive than the V3.
I think they are a little biased of their new flagship drive.
After I posted my thoughts about the two, I was told I may want to update the firmware to 1.4R and also that the X79 platform is what may be holding it back.
Huh, what?

I guess that is possible but I highly doubt it. I am running the same drivers on the V3 as the V4 and the numbers do not lie. Granted they change with each run but the V4 is consistantly lower than the V3 in Raid. The V3 is a Sandforce controller and the V4 is Indilux Infused (whatever that is).

There are others on that forum who get better scores than mine though.

One thing about the Crucial C300, the first test iin 2010 was on the Marvel ports and the latest is on the Intel ports. I wonder what the test would have been in 2010 if I had used the intel ports. Probably a lot higher than they are now.
Edit: Nevermind. That board was a P6X58D-E and the intel ports were SataII and not SataIII. The board only had two Sata III ports and they are Marvel. I retested it on my new board Sabertooth X79 using the Intel SataIII ports.