Show us your SSD performance

[Hopalong X]

I'll repost the specs, prices and model #'s link from my earlier post at the Crucial web site.> SSD upgrades from Crucial.com

3 options. 500 Mb/s. The difference in price is accessories with or without them. It is the same SSD.

1- No accessories
2- Transfer cable and CD/DVD only
3- Mounting hardware only

All three available at Newegg as I posted the third option in my previous post.

 

[AwsedreswA]

RAID0 with 2x SSD Benchmark

WEI gave primary disk a 7.9. My computer specs are listed in forum profile. The Benchmark results are attached, 961 final score. Don't know if this is good or not, but don't care. I'm never going back to OS on HDD.

 

[A Guy]

WEI gave primary disk a 7.9. My computer specs are listed in forum profile. The Benchmark results are attached, 961 final score. Don't know if this is good or not, but don't care. I'm never going back to OS on HDD.

Those numbers are beyond good...incredible

A Guy

 

[Dave76]

Very nice scores AwsedreswA, Nice rig

 

[whs]

Those nums are impressive. But what does the setup yield in real life. The access times did not change from a single 2nd generation SSD. So for the OS, I do not really see a big benefit. Or am I wrong.

 

[Britton30]

Wolfgang with a SSD do you leave Write Caching enabled or not?

 

[whs]

Wolfgang with a SSD do you leave Write Caching enabled or not?

Yes, it is enabled.

 

[Britton30]

Wolfgang with a SSD do you leave Write Caching enabled or not?

Yes, it is enabled.

Thanks sir! While the SSD performs flawlessly thus far, I'm trying to figure out why the re-boot time is comparatively longer, over 55 seconds.

 

[whs]

If you are talking 'reboot', you have to also consider the time the BIOS takes to get going. On my HP box, the BIOS phase was longer than the time it took to boot Windows. Take a stopwatch and see how much time it takes from 'Starting Windows' to when you have internet connection. That is the timeframe where the SSD plays a role. But during the BIOS phase your SSD is dormant.

There are also a variety of programs which will measure your boot time in a more exact way. I have used Soluto at one time. What is nice about it, it tells you which processes are active during boot and how much time they take. You would be amazed - I had 60 processes only at boot. With Soluto you can also manage certain processes, meaning you can kick them out. This was the result I got at the time on a laptop. The 0.27 min is about 16 sec which I thought was pretty good for a lappy.

 

[Britton30]

Wolfgang I must be really dumb. I downloaded, installed Soluto. All that happens when I click the shortcut to it is a big Soluto icon which says "loading" and then it disappears. I rebooted and the lower left of the desktop "peeled" up and said learning first boot. I can't find anyway to get info from Soluto at all.

EDIT: Same on 2nd and 3rd reboot, "Learning first boot".

 

[essenbe]

It takes it a short while to "Learn" your computer.

 

[whs]

Gary, I do not quite remember how that worked. Let me download it and try myself. I am sure it will come back. Will let you know asap.

 

[whs]

Steve is right. It takes a while before it has collected the data. I had to uninstall mine again because it was a bit of a pain. Norton kept blocking it and I did not want to muck around with that.

 

[Britton30]

Thanks, I uninstalled it too due to it doing nothing. I have Norton too but it made no complaint about Soluto tho.
I would like to get it to work to see what is going on at boot.

 

[AwsedreswA]

Access time most likely remained unchanged from the .2ms, and if anything, boots became longer when compared to a single SSD because there is an extra RAID BIOS screen to get through. My goal in RAID0 was to increase the efficiency with large file reads, i.e. game load screens in SC2 and BF3.

Thanks for response, good to know my numbers are good.

 

[essenbe]

Thanks, I uninstalled it too due to it doing nothing. I have Norton too but it made no complaint about Soluto tho.
I would like to get it to work to see what is going on at boot.

Gary, the old version usually takes a few reboots to work. This is the new version, the older version was useful, but if you uninstall it, all the changes you made go with it. So, I tried the old fashioned way. But, while I had it, it was useful and helped.

 

[oofc]

I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but if not please let me know where.

I recently bought an Intel 320 SSD (128GB) to place on my mobile system (ASUS G73JH / HM55 Chipset). Once the clean copy of Windows 7 was done, I downloaded and installed the Intel SSD Toolbox.

When I checked the System Tuner panel, the DIPM setting was disabled. After I enabled it, it's status changed to "Feature is optimized". Note that at this time, the Intel RST drivers were not installed.

Later, after I downloaded and installed the latest Intel RST drivers, the DIPM status have changed to "Current storage driver does not support DIPM settings. Consider changing to another storage driver compatible with your system".

I also checked the storage driver details using Device Manager and it's using the "iaStor.sys" file.

Basically, IRST = DIPM disabled; Default Microsoft AHCI drivers = DIPM enabled.

Any thoughts? Does anyone else have/had this issue too?

Thanks in advance.

 

[FliGi7]

Found this for you. It may or may not help.

TIP: how to enable DIPM for SSDs on Windows 7 - ABXZone Computer Forums

 

[oofc]

Found this for you. It may or may not help.

TIP: how to enable DIPM for SSDs on Windows 7 - ABXZone Computer Forums

Not really. That guide is intended to enable DIPM when using Microsoft's AHCI default driver.

In my case, I'm trying to enable DIPM feature with Intel RST drivers, since I have no problems with the Microsoft ones.

Thanks, tho.

 

[FliGi7]

Found this for you. It may or may not help.

TIP: how to enable DIPM for SSDs on Windows 7 - ABXZone Computer Forums

Not really. That guide is intended to enable DIPM when using Microsoft's AHCI default driver.

In my case, I'm trying to enable DIPM feature with Intel RST drivers, since I have no problems with the Microsoft ones.

Thanks, tho.

I was about to say "Huh?" but I see the last post of the page states that it's specific to the MS ACHI driver. Sorry about that.