Show us your SSD performance

[lnav83]

OCZ-Vertex 3 120GB

Just got it, these speeds seem a little slow to me, what do you think?

 

[HugeRaven]

I have 4 SSDs, so not sure which you want. The numbers do come out a little better with iaStor, but can't say that it is noticable. For the sake of discussion, don't get too caught up in ste tests. The more you run, the slower it will get. And, the numbers really have no bearing on real world usage. I have an Intel X25 80GB. I have run AS SSD on it and it was scores as low as 330, have later run the same test and got as high as 440. In actual usage I could tell no difference in how they were performing. I am currently using a 64GB Crucial M4 SSD. Here is the only test I have run on it.
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These are the tests I ran on the Intel and the Vertex2
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I think it good scores that you get. I tried the IRST driver just installing it when i got home and there was no difference and also when i tested in AS SSD Bench i didnt use the right driver, it still used the marvell driver. As i didnt know how och even if i could switch to the other driver i left it alone and just uninstalled the IRST driver and everything whent back to normal.

Any ides why i didnt work for me?

 

[HugeRaven]

Has anyone any ides why i didnt work for me to install IRST or how i change to that driver when its installed so the system doesnt use the Marvell drivers?

Please help....

 

[carwiz]

Msahci is NOT a Marvell driver. That's the stock Microsoft driver. Why would you even load a Marvell driver in the first place?

Did you re-boot after the driver update?

 

[architect]

revodrive-3-x2

hi,
i got my revodrive to work...
not so easy...but it is faaaaast!

 

[whs]

Impressive. My brain would not be able to follow that speed.

 

[HugeRaven]

Msahci is NOT a Marvell driver. That's the stock Microsoft driver. Why would you even load a Marvell driver in the first place?

Did you re-boot after the driver update?

Yes i did a reboot after i installed the driver.

I´m new to this so i just thought that i should install the Marvell driver to get it to work propely.

Do you mean that i didnt have to do that after a clean install of OS and just install IRST instead? Would it then use that driver instead?

 

[carwiz]

NORMALLY, you would use the Marvell driver for one of the Marvell SATA controller(s) on a motherboard. Your board has the Intel controller, specifically the ICH10R. I don't think installing the Marvell driver did any harm since it has no hardware to run and Windows will just park it. It will take up space though.

As far as Intel RST not running, you may have downloaded and installed the wrong version for your board. The X58 series chipset uses a different driver than the current X6 series that current boards use. Windows won't run it either if it can't find the hardware.

This is the INF file. It's not necessary to run but it lets Windows report your hardware correctly.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=20019&lang=eng

This is the Intel RST driver package you should have loaded.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=20215&lang=eng

 

[Hopalong X]

Carwiz

I don't know where your info came from but this is direct from ASUS.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc. - Motherboards- ASUS P6X58D-E

Intel® ICH10R controller :
6 x SATA 3Gb/s port(s), blue
Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10
Marvell® PCIe 9128 controller : *1
2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), gray

Sata 6Gbs is a Marvell controller.


Specs Corsair> http://www.corsair.com/ssd/force-series-gt-ssd.html

Interface: SATA 6Gb/s • Max Sequential Read/Write (using ATTO Disk Benchmark): 555 MB/s sequential read — 515 MB/s sequential write • Max Random 4k Write (using IOMeter 08): 85k IOPS (4k aligned) • SSD Unformatted Capacity: 120 GB

 

[carwiz]

Okay Hap. I was just browsing one of the vendor specs for the board. It only specified the ICH10R. I wasn't aware that it had both. Sorry. If that's the case, perhaps the OP has the drive plugged into the wrong port.

But hey, that's why you experts are here. Right?

Addendum: But.... I would use the Intel ports anyway.

 

[essenbe]

carwiz, you are an expert. Don't try to kid me.

 

[carwiz]

And... I hear the old Marvell controllers will only run at just under 3Gb/s. Better performance has been obtained from the Intel ICH10R with RST. Check out some of the speed tests between Marvell vs. ICH10R. If the motherboard has the new Marvell controller, then ya, use it. Otherwise, Intel-it!

 

[carwiz]

carwiz, you are an expert. Don't try to kid me.

LOL... You sure that's not spelled exspurt?
"Ex" - Has been
"Spurt" - Drip under pressure.

 

[carwiz]

The first thing to do is find out which Marvell controller chip is used on the motherboard.

Anyone know?

 

[essenbe]

I think they are both called 91XX. But the old one and new one is different.

 

[Hopalong X]

Marvell® PCIe 9128 controller

That is one of the newer controllers.

My P55 with the old Marvell controller is still faster than a Intel Sata 3Gbs.

 

[essenbe]

Here is his board. link

 

[essenbe]

It is the Marvell 9128 Asus

My 1155 P67 has the Marvell SE9120

 

[carwiz]

That appears to be the one I was looking at before. The Marvell controller shown there is for the LAN.

 

[Hopalong X]

My P55 has the 2nd Gen.

Essenbe is 3rd Gen.

9128 is one of if not the newest Marvell.