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This is on Win 7 x64, P35 chipset, ICH9, Intel 9.6.0.1014 (AHCI & Trim-enabled, 3 Mar 2010) driver. The SSD is a Patriot Torqx M28 with the new VBM19C1Q firmware. After the firmware update, the drive was completely zeroed-out with a secure erase tool. The system image was restored using Windows Image Backup.
This is on Win 7 x32, P45G chipset, ICH10, Intel 9.6.0.1014 (AHCI & Trim-enabled, 3 Mar 2010) driver. The SSD is a Patriot Torqx M28 with the new VBM19C1Q firmware. After the firmware update, the drive was restored using Windows Image Backup (IOW, it wasn't deliberately erased).
Please don't take this wrong, but I know how to load the RAID driver during installation. If you read the posts, tw33k stated he had the same motherboard but was using the Windows driver. I wanted to know how he installed Windows using a Windows driver--which he responded by stating that he wasn't running RAID.
Curious...
What is the preferred way in which everyone benches their SSD's using the HD Tune app? After I set my RAID up, I posted a screen-shot showing a "roller coaster." Today, I was playing with the app, and went into the options. On the left, I selected Benchmark. On the right, i moved the slider to Accurate and for block size I selected 512KB. Afterward, of course, I ran a bench and was somewhat surprised by the result. No longer a "roller coaster," but rather a fairly straight line as I have had previous to setting up the array and similar to screen-shots I've seen of others.
AS SSD IMHO is the best test for a SSD.
Alex Intelligent Software - Downloads: AS SSD Benchmark
Although many use HD Tune, and like it, its not really intended for SSDs where-as AS SSD is.
I have heard tell, that HD Tune is really not good for a SSD because it can actually cause them to loose performance.
I honestly do not know if this is true in any form, but I I like to use AS SSD just because its designed specifically for SSD benchmarking.