OCZ Vertex 2 60gb seems slow...

[Nebor]

Most of my scores seem to be less than half of what other people with the same drive are getting. You can tell it's in ACHI mode by the iaStore driver. Also the intel rapid store software says the drive is able to take advantage of advanced management features....

Also my overall windows performance scores seem pretty low. My laptop seems to have similar scores...

It's an i7 2600k, msi p67a-g45, 8gb of corsair 1333mhz memory, gtx 295, and ocz vertex 2 60gb ssd.

My laptop with an intel x25 80gb seems a lot faster.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Hm yours does seem slower than mine although my 4K scores are slower than yours. I have no idea what these mean. I barely installed my drive and just started loading apps on it.

 

[Nebor]

What bothers me is that there are people with the same drive who have access times that start with .0xx. So ours are way slower....

I ran the benchmarks that they told me to at the OCZ forum and it looks alright, so whatever, I guess I shouldn't worry about it. I should have gotten another intel...

 

[fffblackmage]

That write speed looks kinda low... that can't be right.

 

[Nebor]

That write speed looks kinda low... that can't be right.

Yeah most people with the same drive are getting just under 100 MB\s

 

[Nebor]

Now that I think about it, I plugged it into one of the SATA 3.0 ports assuming that all SSDs were SATA 3.0 compatible. Maybe that's the problem.

 

[lowlymarine]

I'm in the same boat. For comparison's sake, I ran (or started to run, rather) the same benchmark on my 1TB SpinPoint, and I think the difference in sequential write performance speaks for itself. (Though it's somewhat comforting to see that the SSD is at least running circles around the HDD in random writes.)

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Now that I think about it, I plugged it into one of the SATA 3.0 ports assuming that all SSDs were SATA 3.0 compatible. Maybe that's the problem.

Don't think it would be that but try it and lmk. I only have 1 port on my laptop

 

[Nebor]

I'm in the same boat. For comparison's sake, I ran (or started to run, rather) the same benchmark on my 1TB SpinPoint, and I think the difference in sequential write performance speaks for itself. (Though it's somewhat comforting to see that the SSD is at least running circles around the HDD in random writes.)

Yeah that just has to be wrong.... My intel SSD is so much faster in every category on my laptop...

 

[perdomot]

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This is my first gen Agility ssd and my 4K read has dropped 30% from its original 24 MB/s but I wanted to ask what the 31k-BAD message in the top left corner refers to.

 

[XLNC]

Did you do a fresh install or a clone of your previous HDD? Seems like cloning could cause improper partition alignment, which degrades performance.

See this thread if that's the case:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2088155&highlight=hdd+ssd+clone

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I feel sad about my SSD now =(

 

[AznAnarchy99]

So I found this..

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...-results-quot-PLEASE-HELP-CONTRIBUTE-MATERIAL

 

[Nebor]

Did you do a fresh install or a clone of your previous HDD? Seems like cloning could cause improper partition alignment, which degrades performance.

See this thread if that's the case:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2088155&highlight=hdd+ssd+clone

I did a fresh install.

It starts windows fast so I guess it's fine. In the future I'm only buying Intel SSDs though.

 

[Emulex]

31K is a bad alignment. (xp or vista upgraded to 7) or clone.

for sure.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

So what? No help for our slowness problem?

 

[Obsoleet]

Sell it and buy an Intel drive, damn..as you noted with the 80gb intel they are the best on the market..

 

[thescreensavers]

I dont like contantly doing bench marks, so I stopped it. I got 11mb/s avg on Read for 4k

ICH8M laptop chipset

 

[lowlymarine]

So what? No help for our slowness problem?

Personally I'm going to wait a couple of weeks and let the SandForce controller do whatever magical garbage collection it's supposed to do and see if performance improves. Either way, it's still a TON faster than even my 1TB SpinPoint F3 at random read/write performance and seeking, and that's 90% of usage anyways. Will probably stick to Corsair or Intel in the future, though.

 

[zip1385]

I think you have something setup wrong... Below is my Intel SSD drive.

 

[Old Hippie]

I wanted to ask what the 31k-BAD message in the top left corner refers to.

Bad alignment.

Not only will it lower your specs but will also cause excessive reads/writes degrading the drive quicker.

 

[perdomot]

Bad alignment.

Not only will it lower your specs but will also cause excessive reads/writes degrading the drive quicker.

Thanks, fixed it with Paragon Alignment tool. Also saw one of my hdds was out of aligment too.

 

[Nebor]

I think you have something setup wrong... Below is my Intel SSD drive.

Unless you have an idea of what's set incorrectly, that's not very helpful. I have an Intel SSD in my laptop that performs like yours.

I guess we're just chalking this up to OCZ quality? Clearly my drive isn't out of alignment, it's a clean install.

 

[razel]

My laptop with an intel x25 80gb seems a lot faster.

It clear that your writes are capped at 37MB. You will need to determine whether the issue is the drive, drive controller or even SATA cable. What I would do is run the bench Seq and 4k bench in safe mode. If it's the same result, then I take your Intel SSD off your laptop and plug it in the same controller that your OCZ SSD is running on.

Becareful when doing write benches on SSDs, especially AS SSD. There is nothing wrong with AS SSD, it's just each time you run it you are writing about 8GB of data and you cannot change that. I suggest you use CrystalMark with a smaller dataset (512MB) for now since all you really want to do is quickly find out what's wrong. There is another annoyance with benching SSD, but it won't matter for your situation. You just need to release it's write performance Kraken. Best of luck.

 

[zip1385]

Update to the latest bios and do a clean install. Make sure in bios it is set to AHCI before installing windows. Install the latest chipset driver. Disable Prefetch and Superfetch.

What Sata controller is it plugged into on your motherboard? Try another one. Try another Sata cable.