Show us your SSD performance 2

[Bongo]

Where whs said, I have a early one of 15.8

 

[Britton30]

I looked, there are a 100 or so lines of times. If it's the front data list I have something wrong with my SSD. Still 30+ seconds.

 

[Dwarf]

Seriously, having seen the figures that Wolfgang posted of a friend's machine, I'm considering another upgrade and going for a pair of OCZ Vertex 4 SATA III 256GB drives in a RAID0 configuration. My other SSDs (the ones I currently have installed) will go into my other computer that I have built using the components from my previous system.

Was unable to get the Vertex 4 drives I was thinking about, but got a new pair of OCZ Agility 3 SATA III 120GB drives instead. Configured as RAID 0, here is my ATTO benchmark result.

 

[whs]

Mine also. Same event 100. I have a Crucial M4 - I think Steve has the same. Maybe you have 31 sec because of a different SSD and system. My laptop with an OCZ Vertex is 29 to 35 sec which is strange in itself. I wonder why the times vary.

 

[Britton30]

Guy, those look like a good and speedy set.

Wolfgang I also have a m4 128GB SSD.

Also Crucial released a new firmware a few weeks ago, 040H. http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-S...-040H-04MH-firmware-available-now/td-p/114274

 

[Dwarf]

Thanks Gary. I must say that I wasn't expecting to break the 1000MB/s barrier for either Read or Write, never mind both.

 

[Britton30]

Thanks Gary. I must say that I wasn't expecting to break the 1000MB/s barrier for either Read or Write, never mind both.

Do you notice a performance increase at all?

 

[kbrady1979]

Gary, my boot time is between 22-26 seconds according to this, and I believe it is because we may have some drivers that slow down the restart process such as a third party SATA driver and USB 3.0 driver. I know for a fact my ASMedia drivers slow things down. Just a thought, might not have anything to do with it.

 

[Dwarf]

The system seems far more responsive, although I haven't installed any apps yet as I've only just done the installs. As I'm doing this from Windows 8 (just happens to be the one I've got updated, the others will have to wait till another time), I'll install Office 2013 and see what happens. Back shortly.

 

[Britton30]

You may be correct Kelly, long ago I did a boot trace that Cluberti said a USB, something, was taking a long time to load. Well long as in 8-10 seconds. I do have Asmedia USB 3 and I think Steve may too.

 

[whs]

Unnessary startup programs can definitely slow the boot process. I always try to disable all that are not absolutely needed.

Gary, For a test, disable all startup programs and see what that yields. I use WinPatrol to manage the startups. A lot easier than msconfig.

 

[kbrady1979]

I know during my Windows installs that the Windows flag would rotate about 30% while restarting(during all of the driver installations) until it hit the ASMedia controller and from that point on, the flag would rotate all the way. I know it's not very scientific, but I did 4 installs and it happened at the same place, every time. It still boots up fast enough that I don't worry about it though

 

[essenbe]

My times are 31 seconds using a Samsung 830 256GB SSD. But, Gary is right, I have AS Media USB 3.0 plus, if you have the SATA 3 AS Media, it has it's own boot screen that will add 5 seconds to startup times. I know because I tested it with it enabled and disabled. I guess that's the problem with having a board like mine with everything in the world on it. Everything takes time to load, but because of it, you get all the extra goodies. I think I would rather have the extra goodies than save 10 seconds on boot times which I do about once a day, sometimes.

 

[theveterans]

My times are 31 seconds using a Samsung 830 256GB SSD. But, Gary is right, I have AS Media USB 3.0 plus, if you have the SATA 3 AS Media, it has it's own boot screen that will add 5 seconds to startup times. I know because I tested it with it enabled and disabled. I guess that's the problem with having a board like mine with everything in the world on it. Everything takes time to load, but because of it, you get all the extra goodies. I think I would rather have the extra goodies than save 10 seconds on boot times which I do about once a day, sometimes.

I agree too. I think that's the real benefit of SSDs IMO. You don't have to sacrifice very long boot times in order to run all the startup programs that you want, and you also get the snappiness from ssd right after cold boot. I would just set msconfig to run on normal startup on an ssd.

 

[kbrady1979]

My times are 31 seconds using a Samsung 830 256GB SSD. But, Gary is right, I have AS Media USB 3.0 plus, if you have the SATA 3 AS Media, it has it's own boot screen that will add 5 seconds to startup times. I know because I tested it with it enabled and disabled. I guess that's the problem with having a board like mine with everything in the world on it. Everything takes time to load, but because of it, you get all the extra goodies. I think I would rather have the extra goodies than save 10 seconds on boot times which I do about once a day, sometimes.

Exactly! That's what I was getting at, but said much better lol

 

[Britton30]

Unnecessary startup programs can definitely slow the boot process. I always try to disable all that are not absolutely needed.

Gary, For a test, disable all startup programs and see what that yields. I use WinPatrol to manage the startups. A lot easier than msconfig.

I had Weatherbug, in Startup, aside from Security, I got it down to 24.6 seconds. These ASUS boards are long winded in their POSTing too.
Thanks Wolfgang and company for your thoughts. My total reboot time was 44 seconds this last time, down from 60-ish. Good for me.

 

[Dwarf]

I've installed Office 2013, and it sure is speedy opening. About the same time as a blink to open any of the component apps.

 

[Snakeyeskm]

Based on advice I reverted to Intel RST 11.2 with considerable improvement in my benches. Unfortunately I don't have a copy of my earlier actual runs using 11.6 and 11.7, but they were definitely not at the same level.

 

[Britton30]

Looks like you have a winner Guy!
Here's mine, 1/2 the performance.

 

[whs]

Based on advice I reverted to Intel RST 11.2 with considerable improvement in my benches. Unfortunately I don't have a copy of my earlier actual runs using 11.6 and 11.7, but they were definitely not at the same level.

Your 4K times are fantastic - and that is really all that counts for the OS.