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Hmm, alright. So installed the drivers - does seem to help... Its very strange.


So the first screenshot I posted, the test was run on the 6th. I ran another test about 2 days ago and the score had dropped down to 9xx. I have obviously installed a lot more games and applications and uninstalled some games and applications, changed anti viruses etc. So it was understandable.

Installed the driver, rebooted and got this:

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Then went to shower, came back and ran it again just because I could and got this:
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What exactly do those drivers do? How does it work?
 
I believe the iastor drivers are the proper intel drivers for the intel controller in our motherboards. The msahci are the default windows drivers

The vertex 4 also does a form of garbage collection other than trim which speeds things up after a while when you have copied data over to it. Hard to explain but I read this somewhere. Will try get a link
 
reaper84 said:
I believe the iastor drivers are the proper intel drivers for the intel controller in our motherboards. The msahci are the default windows drivers

The vertex 4 also does a form of garbage collection other than trim which speeds things up after a while when you have copied data over to it. Hard to explain but I read this somewhere. Will try get a link
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What about MACs? lol i wanna use this in my MacBook Pro :O! any ideas for me to speed it up aswell? =]
 
unnamed said:
What about MACs? lol i wanna use this in my MacBook Pro :O! any ideas for me to speed it up aswell? =]
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Get a proper OS? :p
I am sure if you search for it on Intel's site you could find it. Maybe the mac OS doesn't need it? I dunno...
 
PsyCLown said:
Get a proper OS? :p
I am sure if you search for it on Intel's site you could find it. Maybe the mac OS doesn't need it? I dunno...
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LOL! it might be fun for gamers but it sure is fun and easy to use with touchpad with gestures etc :p
 
But you have a 256gb drive and we have 128gb drives so obviously yours will be faster. Nice drive though :D

Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
 
pcjunkie said:
Suck it PsyCLown :p

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There we go, a lot better than the 8xx you had previously :D
It should be faster than mine! Ironically in my test my sequential read / write speeds were higher? lol
But your 4K etc. were better :p

They are KICK ASS SSD'd though! I doubt we would actually notice the speed difference between our drives in real life applications.
 
PsyCLown said:
There we go, a lot better than the 8xx you had previously :D
It should be faster than mine! Ironically in my test my sequential read / write speeds were higher? lol
But your 4K etc. were better :p

They are KICK ASS SSD'd though! I doubt we would actually notice the speed difference between our drives in real life applications.
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Yeah well actually remembering to install the rst drivers helped :p (Told you it wasn't my board XD)
its a bit strange, The tests vary with each run
in one test my sequential speeds were a lot higher,
but the 4k was lower so the total score was a little lower
 
Apparently to get the best results your pc needs to be under load while benching the SSD. Thats what I read somewhere
 
reaper84 said:
Apparently to get the best results your pc needs to be under load while benching the SSD. Thats what I read somewhere
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Tried to do the bench with Heaven benchmark maxed out, windowed at 720p... Didn't work.
Got 1031 :p Was funny watching the interface for AS SSD load like a webpage though.
 
not cool bobbels...

Except for benchmarking, can you see any difference in loading and startup times compared to a single ssd?
 
bobbels_ZA said:
Im still testing, doing a backup and restore from my old hdd to this raid config, its still backing up, will let you know when its done.
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Can you run benchies, fill the drive with stuff and delete and fill etc, then rebench the drives? I wanna know if the Garbage collection works in place of TRIM

Thanks in advance
 
So I did some more testing after putting back all my data from the backup with all my usual goodies running. tested test2, test3, reboot, test4, test5.

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I'm not quite sure what to make of it, but seems like the performance varies quite some bit, possibly cause outlook was like doing a S/R or a gtalk message popped up. Hoping to get some neutron gtx's to test with, but they will probably be 240gb's. Nevertheless, here are the results, will try to do some tests again after a week or month. I know the Agility 3's when in raid0, had quite a performance decrease after a few weeks.
 
Oke i can add to this benchmark , i know its not a legal add so don't try to compare it , also i can't display much information on the setup used aside from the controllers witch where Areca ARC-1880i PCI-Express 2.0 8x RAID Controller Cards . :)

but hey its nice to see that suck scores exit ,, now if only i had the cash for it lol

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After struggling to get my ssd into ahci mode for an hour(damn gd-70 MB)
i finally succeed and get these puny results!...wtf!?!
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It could be due to drive age, clutter, bad drivers or wrong windows setup.

As you can see my 2 year old Adata S511 suffers from many of these issues.

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Both drives less than a year old.
One of them is empty, nada on it.
Am running windows 8. Thought windows 8 is optimized out of the box for ssd's?
And drivers? I never knew one can download drivers for ssd's. Yiu don't mean firmware perhaps?
 
Windows will never be truly optimized for a SSD, there are still a few optimizations you can do in Windows 8. Win8 SSD Guide

I literally mean drivers. If you're using any controller that windows doesn't understand 100% then it could have a significant impact on your drive's performance. These drivers are usually supplied with your motherboard or any raid card you may be using.
 
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