Show us your SSD performance

[jimhem]

I currently have the OCZ Agility 2 128g ssd, faily new to the ssd's. I just purchased and installed mine within the last month. I am running windows 7 Premium 64x, how can i tell which version of the firmware i have and if i need to upgrade/flash newer version of firmware?

also, what software or application should i use to benchmark my drive?

Thank you in advance

 

[sygnus21]

See this post..... http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/18229-show-us-your-ssd-performance-95.html#post1157711

 

[essenbe]

DEVICE MANAGER-DISK DRIVES=YOUR DISK DRIVE-PROPERTIES-DETAILS- FROM DROPDOWN BOX, 2ND ITEM IS HARDWARE ID IT WILL SHOW YOU THE FIRMWARE ON RIGHT SIDE. mINE IS fw 1.24.


ps sorry about the caps.

 

[jimhem]

I have determined that my ozc agility 2 is on firmware 1.27. Ran the as ssd benchmark program listed in this post at the top and got what i feel are some real low numbers. When using the pc and gaming it feels failry quick, much quicker than with my previous hdd which i also believe has failed as of last night.

here is the screenshot from as ssd


and the screenshot from hd tune (write speed only due to trial version limitation)


i feel i may have something configured incorrectly. I also went into the bios to verify the achi was enabled as i thought it was and i do not have an option to set it.
i am using GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 / nForce 430 ATX AMD Motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Windsor 2.4GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Processor, 8G G.Skill gaming ram ( 2G x 4 chips) and my bios if i wrote it down correctly is M61P-S3 F5 v6.00P6

anyone have any tips or ideas???

 

[diehrd]

It would be nice if everyone stuck to one set of bench test software ... I have the Kingston SSDNOW 64gb drive and after setting everything up correctly ACHI ect ,ect I just tested it and for a low cost drive it works well.

ATTO I get 122/225 Not bad for a budget drive at all..

 

[whs]

I have determined that my ozc agility 2 is on firmware 1.27. Ran the as ssd benchmark program listed in this post at the top and got what i feel are some real low numbers. When using the pc and gaming it feels failry quick, much quicker than with my previous hdd which i also believe has failed as of last night.

here is the screenshot from as ssd
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and the screenshot from hd tune (write speed only due to trial version limitation)
View attachment 137552

i feel i may have something configured incorrectly. I also went into the bios to verify the achi was enabled as i thought it was and i do not have an option to set it.
i am using GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 6100 / nForce 430 ATX AMD Motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Windsor 2.4GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Processor, 8G G.Skill gaming ram ( 2G x 4 chips) and my bios if i wrote it down correctly is M61P-S3 F5 v6.00P6

anyone have any tips or ideas???

I noticed that HD Tune does funny things with the OCZ tests. I had a similarly dismal picture from my brand new Vertex 2 - but when I ran Atto, I got great numbers. And the SSD runs great anyhow.I suggest you run Atto and compare. I use HD Tune only for HDDs and sticks from now on.

 

[essenbe]

If it helps, here is the link to download your motherboard manual. I am not familar with Gigabyte MBs but in mine I have to enable raid then go to on chip devices, under that sub menu it lists raid mode, if you click that it will enable you to select ahci. This enables the ahci drivers for all sata controllers even if you do not use raid.

 

[pxsalmers]

Here's mine:

 

[jimhem]

I will check the sub menus in the bios when i get home again and see if i overlooked something. I will also take your tip on trying the ATTO benchmark and will post the results for benchmark and bios options once i get home from work this evening and look at them.

Thank you

 

[Dave76]

I will check the sub menus in the bios when i get home again and see if i overlooked something. I will also take your tip on trying the ATTO benchmark and will post the results for benchmark and bios options once i get home from work this evening and look at them.

Thank you

When did you buy it?

Might want to check this out: 25nm NAND Transition Causing Problems for OCZ Vertex 2 E SSDs

 

[BishBashBosh]

here's my results :- Kingston 128GB SSDNow V100 and my 2xSamsung F1's in raid 0












but seems somethings not right low burst speeds and not sure if my ssd is set up right

 

[jimhem]

I will check the sub menus in the bios when i get home again and see if i overlooked something. I will also take your tip on trying the ATTO benchmark and will post the results for benchmark and bios options once i get home from work this evening and look at them.

Thank you

When did you buy it?

Might want to check this out: 25nm NAND Transition Causing Problems for OCZ Vertex 2 E SSDs

The motherboard was purchased 10/19/2007 and installed about a week later. I did check the bios version from the manufacturer and was able to find out that there have been 3 updates to the bios since my existing one. One of the updates is even from within the past month. The ssd was purchased and installed in January of this year, about 4-6 weeks ago.

 

[jimhem]

It would be nice if everyone stuck to one set of bench test software ... I have the Kingston SSDNOW 64gb drive and after setting everything up correctly ACHI ect ,ect I just tested it and for a low cost drive it works well.

ATTO I get 122/225 Not bad for a budget drive at all..

I used the 2 that i did because someone posted a reply to my question on what benchmark software everyone was using to test their ssd's. Thanks for the tip though, i will try the ATTO benchmark when i get home this evening.

 

[jimhem]

OK, home now and trying new things. First i installed the latest bios from Gigabyte for my mb version F7I released 08/30/2010. Flashed bios and configured before booting into win7. Downloaded and ran the ATTO benchmark and got this (which i believe looks much better than the others

i also reran the as ssd benchmark to compare and the score seems a little higher this time around so apparently the bios did play a little factor in it. However, i still can not find anything in the bios setting to enable the achi

 

[Anusha]

i would only run ATTO on SSDs. others will help degrade the performance.

 

[society misfit]

Nice. Almost identical.
http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/18229-show-us-your-ssd-performance-103.html#post1213203

 

[Dave76]

This is post #1, the thread starter, He is using HD Tune and posted a link to AS SSD.
This thread, since it's beginning has been for all SSDs and all benchmarks as many people have there own preferences.

I'm interested to see what others are getting out of their SSD or SSDs in RAID. It's cool to look through the "Show us your hard drive performance" thread but here's a place for just SSD performance. I have a 128GB Patriot Torqx. (F/W v1881) Please post your benchmarks.

Edit: I now have 2 Patriot Torqx drives (Indilinx controlled) and am running v1881 F/W and LOVE them both like my own kids. haha They are great drives but there are better ones out there and even better ones coming out soon. Thanks to whoever made this a "sticky" It's a good thread.

Benchmark Program Links:

• AS SSD Benchmark
• HD Tune trial

There are a lot of forums that prefer one SSD benchmark over others, you can find diverse reasons on any forum for their choice.

Some say there are benchmarks for HDDs and benchmarks for SSD and they aren't very accurate for the device that they weren't designed for.

It would be nice if everyone stuck to one set of bench test software ... I have the Kingston SSDNOW 64gb drive and after setting everything up correctly ACHI ect ,ect I just tested it and for a low cost drive it works well.

ATTO I get 122/225 Not bad for a budget drive at all..

Some forums have threads for specific SSD benchmarks.
Here is one:
AS SSD Benchmark thread

If you would like to see a specific SSD benchmark thread, you can start one.
It is interesting to see the same benchmark for different SSDs.

I have read that ATTO started as a HDD benchmark, AS SSD was made specifically for SSDs, but that is just my preference and everyone is entitled to theirs.
ATTO uses compressible data for the benchmark which makes the OCZ SF controllers look good because they compress data.
AS SSD uses un-compressible data so will give the SF controllers much lower read/write rates and scores.
Neither of these benchmarks are good indications of normal usage.
One gives you high numbers that you won't see in actual usage, the other gives low numbers that you will exceed in normal usage.


On a slightly different topic, OCZ has published AS SSD benchmarks for their SSDs.

OCZ SSD benchmarks using AS SSD from the OCZ website.


Not quite their published numbers.
Have to give them some credit for posting these benchmark results that are different from their published numbers.

Also have been reading posts from some very disgruntled customers that have received the new Gen3 25nm SSDs with no notification, change in model name or part number.
Evidently the Gen3 speeds are a bit slower than the Gen2 models and the expected life is lower.
Doesn't sound good.

 

[sygnus21]

Also have been reading posts from some very disgruntled customers that have received the new Gen3 25nm SSDs with no notification, change in model name or part number.
Evidently the Gen3 speeds are a bit slower than the Gen2 models and the expected life is lower.
Doesn't sound good.

Is this from OCZ?

Great post BTW +1

I posted something about using the correct measuring tool for OCZ drives and that testing too much may degrade the drive - http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/18229-show-us-your-ssd-performance-100.html#post1166247

 

[whs]

I only like to add that something is strange when you run the OCZs thru HD Tune. My own OCZs and those of others showed very strange results (low and erratic numbers) that were not confirmed by e.g. Atto.

 

[Dave76]

Yes, the above issues are on the OCZ forum.

Drives Shipping With 25nm NAND. Q & A

Vertex 2 60GB (25nm) slow benchmark results and load times?

complaint about 25nm SSD drives


The OCZ staff are saying they use ATTO benchmarks because it gives them good numbers on compressible data, their tests are done on un-used drives.
They admit that customers won't get the same read/write speeds.
The 25nm nand needs more OP so the available space is going to be less, basically that you just have to accept it.

The worst thing is they just started shipping 25nm drives with no indication of the change from 34nm, same models and part numbers. Makes it look like they are trying to hide something.

Doesn't sound good at all.