Show us your SSD performance 2

[linnemeyerhere]

I just set up a 4gb Ram Disk for free via AMD. I'll use this for awhile and evaluate if the purchase to unlock additional space is deemed worthwhile. The 4gb leaves me with 12gb of 1866 ram and the speed of things has increased.

 

[Dave76]

I've decided to add system spec, I hope we can now lay this to rest and get onto my question at hand.

Nice rig, info does help.

Some SSDs need to be taken care of in different ways, depending on the controller and nand used.
If we knew the brand, we can find the controller type, we could possible help speed it up a bit.
SandForce controllers are different than Intel or JMicron, there are different things that can be done.
Also the age of the SSD, at a certain age, actually number of writes, it might need to be secure erased to re-gain performance.
Another is firmware update, depending on the SSD brand and model.

Let us know.

It's a Patriot Pyro 60 gig SSD.

Before doing anything to your SSD make a full image backup.
You have to decide if you want to try any methods of improving performance to your SSD, there are risks, as with most things done on computers.

Check your firmware version with AS SSD, you don't have to run the benchmark, it will tell you the firmware version in the upper left corner.
Also CrystalDiskInfo will show you the firmware.

First, make sure this is your SSD, installing the wrong firmware may brick the SSD.
Drivers and downloads for Pyro 60GB SATA III 2.5

One option to secure erase: Guide: Secure Erase/Zero Write/Factory Clear a Patriot SSD with Free/OSS software.

 

[JerometheGiraff]

Nice rig, info does help.

Some SSDs need to be taken care of in different ways, depending on the controller and nand used.
If we knew the brand, we can find the controller type, we could possible help speed it up a bit.
SandForce controllers are different than Intel or JMicron, there are different things that can be done.
Also the age of the SSD, at a certain age, actually number of writes, it might need to be secure erased to re-gain performance.
Another is firmware update, depending on the SSD brand and model.

Let us know.

It's a Patriot Pyro 60 gig SSD.

Before doing anything to your SSD make a full image backup.
You have to decide if you want to try any methods of improving performance to your SSD, there are risks, as with most things done on computers.

Check your firmware version with AS SSD, you don't have to run the benchmark, it will tell you the firmware version in the upper left corner.
Also CrystalDiskInfo will show you the firmware.

First, make sure this is your SSD, installing the wrong firmware may brick the SSD.
Drivers and downloads for Pyro 60GB SATA III 2.5

One option to secure erase: Guide: Secure Erase/Zero Write/Factory Clear a Patriot SSD with Free/OSS software.

Those are the right drivers Why do I have to wipe my drive ?

 

[Hopalong X]

My new laptop with a Samsung 840 250GB.

 

[Hopalong X]

Last bench I'm running.

 

[Britton30]

Dang Mike, the 840 series looks good!

 

[Hopalong X]

I like it so far.
This is the standard 840 not the Pro.

 

[essenbe]

Good job Mike. That's very good. The 840 is better than I thought.

 

[whs]

Very nice Mike. They had the 128GB model of the 840 on sale for under $80 - at Newegg.

 

[Hopalong X]

Very nice Mike. They had the 128GB model of the 840 on sale for under $80 - at Newegg.

Yes I saw that.
Mine was already ordered and on the way when that sale appeared.
C'est la vie!

 

[Dave76]

It's a Patriot Pyro 60 gig SSD.

Before doing anything to your SSD make a full image backup.
You have to decide if you want to try any methods of improving performance to your SSD, there are risks, as with most things done on computers.

Check your firmware version with AS SSD, you don't have to run the benchmark, it will tell you the firmware version in the upper left corner.
Also CrystalDiskInfo will show you the firmware.

First, make sure this is your SSD, installing the wrong firmware may brick the SSD.
Drivers and downloads for Pyro 60GB SATA III 2.5

One option to secure erase: Guide: Secure Erase/Zero Write/Factory Clear a Patriot SSD with Free/OSS software.

Those are the right drivers Why do I have to wipe my drive ?

You don't have to, but a secure erase will return performance, depending on the number of writes it has accumulated, it will start to have a diminishing affect as the SSD gets higher number of writes.
If it's still performing well for you, then don't worry about any benchmarks or the WEI score, leave it as it is.

My new laptop with a Samsung 840 250GB.

That is a really nice SSD, that's a great score.
Any noticeable performance increase over the other SSDs you have?

 

[A Guy]

I like it so far.
This is the standard 840 not the Pro.

Good, keeping it's amateur status keeps it's options open Nice numbers. A Guy

 

[JerometheGiraff]

Before doing anything to your SSD make a full image backup.
You have to decide if you want to try any methods of improving performance to your SSD, there are risks, as with most things done on computers.

Check your firmware version with AS SSD, you don't have to run the benchmark, it will tell you the firmware version in the upper left corner.
Also CrystalDiskInfo will show you the firmware.

First, make sure this is your SSD, installing the wrong firmware may brick the SSD.
Drivers and downloads for Pyro 60GB SATA III 2.5

One option to secure erase: Guide: Secure Erase/Zero Write/Factory Clear a Patriot SSD with Free/OSS software.

Those are the right drivers Why do I have to wipe my drive ?

You don't have to, but a secure erase will return performance, depending on the number of writes it has accumulated, it will start to have a diminishing affect as the SSD gets higher number of writes.
If it's still performing well for you, then don't worry about any benchmarks or the WEI score, leave it as it is.

My new laptop with a Samsung 840 250GB.

That is a really nice SSD, that's a great score.
Any noticeable performance increase over the other SSDs you have?

Is there anything else I could try ?

 

[Hopalong X]

My new laptop with a Samsung 840 250GB.

That is a really nice SSD, that's a great score.
Any noticeable performance increase over the other SSDs you have?

Yes but not because of the SSD.
My Samsung 830 in my desktop is on a Marvell 6.0Gbs controller chipset. So it never reaches its full potential.

The 840 is using the Intel 6.0Gbs chipset in the laptop.
A big difference in the Marvell and Intel controller chipsets.

 

[Dave76]

Thanks, agree the Intel controller is much better than the Marvell.

 

[theveterans]

My sister's laptop with 128 GB SSD:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>winsat disk -v
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Command Line 'winsat  disk -v'
> DWM running... leaving it on
> System processor power policy saved and set to 'max performance'
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Gathering System Information
> Operating System                        : 6.1 Build-7601
> Processor                               : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.
20GHz
> TSC Frequency                           : 0
> Number of Processors                    : 1
> Number of Cores                         : 4
> Number of CPUs                          : 8
> Number of Cores per Processor           : 4
> Number of CPUs Per Core                 : 2
> Cores have logical CPUs                 : YES
> L1 Cache and line Size                  : 32768  64
> L2 Cache and line Size                  : 262144  64
> Total physical mem available to the OS  : 7.94 GB (8,531,066,880 bytes)
> Adapter Description                     : Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000
> Adapter Manufacturer                    : NVIDIA
> Adapter Driver Version                  : 9.18.13.697
> Adapter Driver Date (yy/mm/dd)          : 2012\10\2
> Has DX9 or better                       : Yes
> Has Pixel shader 2.0 or better          : Yes
> Has LDDM Driver                         : Yes
> Dedicated (local) video memory          : 64MB
> System memory dedicated as video memory : 0MB
> System memory shared as video memory    : 1632MB
> Primary Monitor Size                    : 1366 X 768  (1049088 total pixels)
> WinSAT is Official                       : Yes
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment '-seq -read -n 0'
Mode Flags = 0x%08x
Disk Number = 0
Iterations = 1
IO Count = 256
Sequential IO Size = 65536
Random IO Size = 16384
Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[0] - 485.738111 MB/s
Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[1] - 511.131829 MB/s
Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[2] - 514.992237 MB/s
Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[3] - 448.251559 MB/s
Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[4] - 446.652099 MB/s
Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[5] - 507.411427 MB/s
Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[6] - 510.545974 MB/s
Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[7] - 512.928171 MB/s
Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[8] - 512.943513 MB/s
Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[9] - 514.590449 MB/s
Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[10] - 517.861513 MB/s
Run[1] Type[0x01080001] Zone[11] - 512.529595 MB/s
> Run Time 00:00:02.43
> Running: Storage Assessment '-ran -read -n 0'
Mode Flags = 0x%08x
Disk Number = 0
Iterations = 1
IO Count = 1000
Sequential IO Size = 65536
Random IO Size = 16384
Run[1] Type[0x01000002] Zone[0] - 210.969240 MB/s
> Run Time 00:00:00.23
> Running: Storage Assessment '-scen 2009 -drive C:'
Mode Flags = 0x%08x
Disk Number = 0
Iterations = 1
IO Count = 9000
Sequential IO Size = 65536
Random IO Size = 16384
        Requesting a file of size 1073741824 located at physical offset 0xeeae00
200.
Expected number of IOs: 9000
Number of IOs in trace file:9223
> Run Time 00:00:51.65
> Running: Storage Assessment '-seq -write -drive C:'
Mode Flags = 0x%08x
Disk Number = 0
Iterations = 8
IO Count = 1000
Sequential IO Size = 65536
Random IO Size = 16384
        Requesting a file of size 65536000 located at physical offset 0x6500200.

Run[1] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 488.467719 MB/s
Run[2] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 489.943199 MB/s
Run[3] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 444.684874 MB/s
Run[4] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 490.477705 MB/s
Run[5] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 493.107927 MB/s
Run[6] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 490.975592 MB/s
Run[7] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 489.654906 MB/s
Run[8] Type[0x02000001] Zone[0] - 490.813713 MB/s
> Run Time 00:00:02.82
> Running: Storage Assessment '-flush -drive C: -seq'
Mode Flags = 0x%08x
Disk Number = 0
Iterations = 1
IO Count = 2501
Sequential IO Size = 65536
Random IO Size = 16384
        Requesting a file of size 67108864 located at physical offset 0xeeae0020
0.
Expected number of IOs: 2501
Number of IOs in trace file:2531
> Run Time 00:00:01.54
> Running: Storage Assessment '-flush -drive C: -ran'
Mode Flags = 0x%08x
Disk Number = 0
Iterations = 1
IO Count = 2501
Sequential IO Size = 65536
Random IO Size = 16384
        Requesting a file of size 67108864 located at physical offset 0xeeae0020
0.
Expected number of IOs: 2501
Number of IOs in trace file:2521
> Run Time 00:00:00.62
> Running: Storage Assessment '-hybrid -ran -read -n 0 -ransize 4096'
Mode Flags = 0x%08x
Disk Number = 0
Iterations = 1
IO Count = 1000
Sequential IO Size = 65536
Random IO Size = 4096
NV Cache not present.
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment '-hybrid -ran -read -n 0 -ransize 16384'
Mode Flags = 0x%08x
Disk Number = 0
Iterations = 1
IO Count = 1000
Sequential IO Size = 65536
Random IO Size = 16384
NV Cache not present.
> Run Time 00:00:00.02
> Disk  Sequential 64.0 Read                   509.20 MB/s          7.9
> Disk  Random 16.0 Read                       253.01 MB/s          7.9
> Responsiveness: Average IO Rate              0.43 ms/IO          7.9
> Responsiveness: Grouped IOs                  6.39 units          7.8
> Responsiveness: Long IOs                     0.82 units          7.9
> Responsiveness: Overall                      5.25 units          7.9
> Responsiveness: PenaltyFactor                0.0
> Disk  Sequential 64.0 Write                  494.49 MB/s          7.9
> Average Read Time with Sequential Writes     0.745 ms          7.8
> Latency: 95th Percentile                     2.067 ms          7.6
> Latency: Maximum                             31.207 ms          7.9
> Average Read Time with Random Writes         0.220 ms          7.9
> Total Run Time 00:01:00.14
> The System processor power policy was restored
C:\Windows\system32>

 

[Ramon Zarat]

Just for fun, this is my new Mushkin 64GB USB3 score! This is the first USB flash drive I ever owned that can slap a traditional hard drive badly! This thing is amazingly fast! It came with FAT 32. Quickly formated to ExFAT and this is the result:

 

[whs]

If you had Atto numbers, it would be interesting to compare. Here is my USB3 stick:

 

[Britton30]

Here's a 64GB USB 3 stick, NTFS.

Wolfgang I was going to get ATTO but they have a long registration form to download it, so I passed.

 

[Hopalong X]

This is where I got my ATTO> ATTO Disk Benchmark Download - Softpedia

US, UK and RO download of free version. Zip file on right side of page.
Just download and unzip.