New SSD: are these performance #'s on par?

[Comdrpopnfresh]

OCZ Agility 3, running on nforce 750i. This drive only has 28 hours of running time, according to crystaldiskinfo. And, after performing a 1000mb 5-pass test using crystaldiskmark, these are the performance numbers I have:

Seq. Read: 121.4MB/s Seq. Write: 107.7MB/s
512K Read: 116.9MB/s 512K Write: 106.3MB/s
4K Read: 14.95MB/s 4K Write: 31.26MB/s
4K QD32 Read: 13MB/s 4K QD32 Write: 45.18 MB/s

any confirmation/input is much appreciated! thanks.

 

[Sunburn74]

Nope. That is significantly low performannce for the ocz drive. You should have sequential reads in the 400s and writes I believe in the 250s.

Do some trouble shooting. Are you running sata 3? Do you have AHCI on? And do you have the latest firmware (2.22 I believe)? Do you have the latest bios on your motherboard (mobo makers frequently release bios updates improving sata performance with SSDs)?

 

[Coup27]

those figures are shockingly bad

 

[BFG10K]

That motherboard chipset is like five years old. You might need to update your BIOS and/or chipset drivers.

 

[dmoney1980]

the 750i chipset used SATA I connectivity, so 150 mb read/write sounds correct.

 

[ShintaiDK]

Looks fine for the hardware in question.

 

[wirednuts]

what do you mean hardware... he only needs 386Kb of ram

 

[philipma1957]

the mobo connects in sata I.

so 150 mb/s is max . the ssd is fine the mobo is fine.

the op just put lipstick on a pig. or to put it a nicer way he is driving a nice porsche on a very narrow street (sata I) thus the porsche (ssd) is forced to run much slower then it can on a nice wide road( sata III). I supposed by repaving the street ( new bios ) he can speed up closer to the max number of 150mbs that the road will allowd. If he wants real speed he needs to widen the road and make it safe(new mobo new cpu new ram)

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

Nope. That is significantly low performannce for the ocz drive. You should have sequential reads in the 400s and writes I believe in the 250s.

Do some trouble shooting. Are you running sata 3? Do you have AHCI on? And do you have the latest firmware (2.22 I believe)? Do you have the latest bios on your motherboard (mobo makers frequently release bios updates improving sata performance with SSDs)?

So sorry- I neglected to mention this mobo only has SATA-II (300) capabilities; I'm not running the drive on a controller card- it's right off of the mobo. ASUS stopped BIOS updates for the series some time ago- I have the latest BIOS, and crystaldiskinfo reports the drive has FW ver2.22.

This system is running win8rp, with 6gb of ram. I let win8 install the drivers is saw fit (aside from the AMD gfx driver)- so no NVidia ahci/raid drivers were downloaded and installed. At this point in time, so long after the 750i release, would those nv drivers for the storage controller even be better optimized than the ms win8rp ones?

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

the 750i chipset used SATA I connectivity, so 150 mb read/write sounds correct.

That was my first thought when numbers under 150 showed up. Someone invested in the development of the chipset for this board- it has 3Gb/s SATA (while many of the same time still has 150mbps I guess). Native too, I would assume.

 

[Schmide]

the 750i chipset used SATA I connectivity, so 150 mb read/write sounds correct.

nForce 750i is sata II. (300mb/s) The transition to sata 1-2 was made in the nforce4 era.

There is something else going on with his system.

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

nForce 750i is sata II. (300mb/s) The transition to sata 1-2 was made in the nforce4 era.

There is something else going on with his system.

Just pulled out my HDD I save images on, and found a family member connected the ssd on a BLUE cable.... which I believe is a remnant from an old DELL space heater that ran a P4, sata-I, and came with the 160gb Seagate this SSD replaced. Gonna reboot, get a cable I know is sata-2 cert. and rebench. Sry for lapsing on this so much ppls- I feel like I called tech support with the cord unplugged...

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

Swapped out the blue sata cable for a red one (assume it is sata 300). Three sata ports are populated: the ssd is on port 1, a 1TB HDD on port 2, and on port 4 is a BD-RE. I figured 1&2 might be shared, and 3&4, based on the pairs being enabled/disabled in BIOS.

Seq. Read: 122.1MB/s Seq. Write: 108.1MB/s
512K Read: 117.8MB/s 512K Write: 107.2MB/s
4K Read: 15.24MB/s 4K Write: 33.77MB/s
4K QD32 Read: 45.59MB/s 4K QD32 Write: 45.76 MB/s

So, not much changed... I'm wondering if I should enable/disable cache flushing in windows. Some other weird stuff: the 350MB system reserved partition win8 makes (instead of the 100mb win7 used to)- could that affect alignment? I downloaded the nv controller/ nforce driver package, but I'm thinking drivers from may of 2011 (which can only be had WHQL for win7x64) aren't worth the trouble they may cause. But I'm wondering if having the NVidia SMbus driver, at least, would be a good idea. Thoughts?

 

[fuzzymath10]

You should still feel a significant performance boost since your random reads and writes are no longer 1MB/sec like you'd see with a mechanical hard drive. If its running well I wouldn't let benckmarks get in the way. You could always get a dedicated SATA card too instead of using the onboard ports.

Is this a fresh installation?

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

All sata cables work at sata 3 speeds, you don't need special cables.

 

[mikeymikec]

What OS? I'm wondering whether reverting to the standard Windows driver if possible might help (there may be a weird limitation in an old pre-SSD NVIDIA driver).

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

Fresh install of windows 8 release preview (x64). The first time data was written to the drive was the install. I never installed the nv driver- so the best driver windows has is what is running.