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[dajogejr]

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I have the M series Intel drive myself and have no complaints or concerns with it.

Thank you kind sir. Just let a 160GB Intel M get away on ebay for under 300 shipped...

 

[nate42nd]

I thought you SSD guys would be interested in this. I just updated my WEI and my SSD is now my "choke point" It does not seem right to me. It should be the video card or maybe RAM....but not the SSD.

 

[whs]

Not that the WEI means much, but mine is only 7.1 too.

 

[pparks1]

I thought you SSD guys would be interested in this. I just updated my WEI and my SSD is now my "choke point" It does not seem right to me. It should be the video card or maybe RAM....but not the SSD.

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Which SSD drive? 6.8 is not bad by any means...I think my best score with the Intel was 7.4

 

[nate42nd]

I thought you SSD guys would be interested in this. I just updated my WEI and my SSD is now my "choke point" It does not seem right to me. It should be the video card or maybe RAM....but not the SSD.

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Which SSD drive? 6.8 is not bad by any means...I think my best score with the Intel was 7.4

This is on the one in my system specs. Patriot Torqx indilinx with the latest 1881 FW and everything updated. It's fast and has zero problems. I think it's wrong....but I may be wrong....I just can't imagine that SSD is my "bottleneck"

 

[whs]

nate, I think you worry too much and give the WEI more credit than it deserves.

 

[Pichu]

nate, I think you worry too much and give the WEI more credit than it deserves.

Isn't the wei score based on the "winsat disk" in command prompt if you run it elevated? :huh:

 

[pparks1]

This is on the one in my system specs. Patriot Torqx indilinx with the latest 1881 FW and everything updated. It's fast and has zero problems. I think it's wrong....but I may be wrong....I just can't imagine that SSD is my "bottleneck"

That score is not indicating a bottleneck on your system. People spend way too much time on that number I'm afraid. You can clearly see the MASSIVE difference between a mechanical drive (which would score a 5.9) and this SSD (which your case is a 6.8). Your drive is not bottlenecking your computer.

 

[nate42nd]

nate, I think you worry too much and give the WEI more credit than it deserves.

You are right.

nate, I think you worry too much and give the WEI more credit than it deserves.

Isn't the wei score based on the "winsat disk" in command prompt if you run it elevated? :huh:

Yes, it IS based on the WinSAT disk tool.

This is on the one in my system specs. Patriot Torqx indilinx with the latest 1881 FW and everything updated. It's fast and has zero problems. I think it's wrong....but I may be wrong....I just can't imagine that SSD is my "bottleneck"

That score is not indicating a bottleneck on your system. People spend way too much time on that number I'm afraid. You can clearly see the MASSIVE difference between a mechanical drive (which would score a 5.9) and this SSD (which your case is a 6.8). Your drive is not bottlenecking your computer.

I think in SOME cases the WinSAT disk tool is finding problems I am not seeing in everyday use. I just thought it was interesting.

 

[Zahl]

ahci makes quite the difference so make sure you are using it. It bumped mine from 7.4 to 7.8 (6.6 to 6.9 on my old adata s596). Also I have noticed that if I set the drives to sleep my score drops over time (down to 7.6). With drive sleep disabled my score returns to normal after a day or two and stays there. Weird but thought it might help

 

[pparks1]

ahci makes quite the difference so make sure you are using it. It bumped mine from 7.4 to 7.8 (6.6 to 6.9 on my old adata s596). Also I have noticed that if I set the drives to sleep my score drops over time (down to 7.6). With drive sleep disabled my score returns to normal after a day or two and stays there. Weird but thought it might help

Well, AHCI is a mixed bag. When I had AHCI enabled, my WEI score was higher, but all of the benchmarks tools showed a 2-5MB/s drop on average. Plus, when AHCI is on, my mobo has an extra 8 second delay while it initializes the AHCI controller. Thus, it slows every single boot down by 8 seconds. At the end of the day, I couldn't measure enough tangible performance benefit to earn those 8 seconds back that I would lose on each and every boot.

Therefore, I leave AHCI off on my box. My WEI might be lower, but real world performance is the same and it shaves 8 seconds off my boot times.

 

[Zahl]

Yup I remember my ud3p adding an extra boot screen with ahci too but eight secs seems like a lot. I have noticed the opposite with benches though; AS ssd bench 408 vs. 421. Probably depends on the board/bios a little even if on the same controller

 

[pparks1]

Yup I remember my ud3p adding an extra boot screen with ahci too but eight secs seems like a lot.

I have the UD3R...and with a stopwatch, having AHCI enabled extended my post by 8 seconds.

 

[Zahl]

I believe you, just saying it seems like a really long wait

 

[pparks1]

I believe you, just saying it seems like a really long wait

It is a long wait and that is why I leave AHCI disabled. Any performance benefits gained are offset by 8 seconds at boot. So, in the course or 2-3 hours of heavy computer use, I'm not getting those 8 seconds back. And if I am applying patches and rebooting a fair number of times, it starts to add up.

 

[JohnPC]

I believe you, just saying it seems like a really long wait

It is a long wait and that is why I leave AHCI disabled. Any performance benefits gained are offset by 8 seconds at boot. So, in the course or 2-3 hours of heavy computer use, I'm not getting those 8 seconds back. And if I am applying patches and rebooting a fair number of times, it starts to add up.

I noticed this issue when I tried to switch from IDE to AHCI through the REGEDIT OS fix. I lost about 20 seconds of boot time, going from about 35 sec. to 55 sec. When I did a reinstall using the AHCI drivers from the "get go," I got that wait time cut back pretty close to original time, about ~35. It also helps to disable SATA3, IDE, etc. from the BIOS, so that the AHCI gets noticed right away.

 

[MSAKSA]

hi there
I got Patriot Warp PE64GS25SSDR 2.5" 64GB SATA II Internal Solid State Drive a while ago
I installed windows 7 on it , my computer spec :
pentum D 3.2GHz
MB: Intel(R) 975X Express Chipset (Asus)
Ram 4 GB (2 x 1 GB corsair , 1 x 2 GB Kingstone)
Video Card nVedia 1GB DDRAM2
My computer is so slow
I changed the controller on the BIOS to AHCI , then reformated my computer again , installed win 7 and still to slow

also my computer is not loading windows 7 animation at the startup on the SSD ; (loads on HDD)
the restart time average is more than 100 Seconds

I reformated my computer again today
this is HD Tune score after the format

is this score acceptable on SSD? also it is not stable at all
is there any way to make it faser or I should buy a new INTEL X25 2G

 

[whs]

I have never seen a performance graph like this. Besides the slow average, the ups and downs are not normal. Maybe it is an alignment problem. Check the alignment (in msinfo32 > Components > Storage > Disks > Partition Starting Offset - for the first partition).

 

[MSAKSA]

I have never seen a performance graph like this. Besides the slow average, the ups and downs are not normal. Maybe it is an alignment problem. Check the alignment (in msinfo32 > Components > Storage > Disks > Partition Starting Offset - for the first partition).

here is the info

Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model Patriot Warp V2 64GB SSD ATA Device
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 2
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 2
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 19
Size 60.16 GB (64,592,052,224 bytes)
Total Cylinders 29,642
Total Sectors 126,156,352
Total Tracks 6,639,808
Tracks/Cylinder 224
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 100.00 MB (104,857,600 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 1,048,576 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 60.06 GB (64,485,326,848 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 105,906,176 bytes

 

[Smithk1]

Intel X-25M 80GB Low 4K Benchmark

Model: INTEL SSDSA2M080G2GC X-25M 80GB
Firmware: 2CV102HD

New drive, updated firmware, installed Win 7 Pro x64. AHCI was enabled in the BIOS.

Is this a sign that the partition was not aligned? I let Windows do everything.

Is there a way to confirm that it is aligned correctly?

I did install Intel Matrix Storage Manager, could this be the problem?