- Dec 13, 2000
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Do benchmark programs such as AS SSD benchmark degrade perfomance of the drive they are testing by the act of executing their write tests?
I was reading another thread in this forum and it mentioned the AS SSD benchmark program, and how it checked drive alignment.
So I installed it. I ran the benckmark and got a final result of 148. It also said my drive was not aligned on a 4K boundry (actually, none of my drives/partitions were).
I went out and got this Paragon Partition Alignment Tool and ran it. Re-run the benchmark. The offset is now good. But now my benchmark result is 108. Down by a third.
(I can't provide any benchmark screen results until tonight at the earliest)
So, what wrecked my performance? Running the benchmark tool twice, or running the Paragon Partition Alignment Tool?
I was thinking maybe making a backup, re-initialize the drive with HDDErase, then reload from the backup? Using Macrium Reflect (free)? Would this preserve the correct disk alignment? Would it "straighten out" the disk similar to a defrag or restore it sector by sector, restoring any disarray existing on the disk?
My SSD is a Kingston 64GB SSDNow V Series. It is less than half full.
My motherboard, an abit ip35e, does not support AHCI.
I'm running Win 7 x64. I checked early on and it said TRIM was enabled.
Thanks for any feed back you might have.
I was reading another thread in this forum and it mentioned the AS SSD benchmark program, and how it checked drive alignment.
So I installed it. I ran the benckmark and got a final result of 148. It also said my drive was not aligned on a 4K boundry (actually, none of my drives/partitions were).
I went out and got this Paragon Partition Alignment Tool and ran it. Re-run the benchmark. The offset is now good. But now my benchmark result is 108. Down by a third.
So, what wrecked my performance? Running the benchmark tool twice, or running the Paragon Partition Alignment Tool?
I was thinking maybe making a backup, re-initialize the drive with HDDErase, then reload from the backup? Using Macrium Reflect (free)? Would this preserve the correct disk alignment? Would it "straighten out" the disk similar to a defrag or restore it sector by sector, restoring any disarray existing on the disk?
My SSD is a Kingston 64GB SSDNow V Series. It is less than half full.
My motherboard, an abit ip35e, does not support AHCI.
I'm running Win 7 x64. I checked early on and it said TRIM was enabled.
Thanks for any feed back you might have.
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