TRIM firmware is starting to show up for certain SSD drives. I believe OCZ Vertex and Agility is available as well as Crucial M225.
I have a Crucial M225 128GB, and I have flashed to the latest firmware (1819), but I have noticed that over time I start to lose write performance. If I do a full wipe using Sanitary Erase and reinstall the OS, everything is great. However after some time and installing applications (30 mins to 1 hour or so) the write performance seems to drop. I start at 180-190 MBps write speed, but it starts to drop down to 150, then 120, and settles in around 90 MBps. The read speed seems perfectly fine, but the write speed definitely seems affected. Anyone else see this issue?
If I Sanitary Erase and start over, it's back to max speeds. Seems there's an issue in the write performance after the system is used for a while. I find that ironic as the new firmware with TRIM support was suppose to increase write performance over time not decrease it.
I am using the following:
Asus P6T with BIOS version 0801
Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping
6GB of Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600
ASUS Geforce GTX 260
Windows 7 64bit RTM with TRIM enabled
I have a Crucial M225 128GB, and I have flashed to the latest firmware (1819), but I have noticed that over time I start to lose write performance. If I do a full wipe using Sanitary Erase and reinstall the OS, everything is great. However after some time and installing applications (30 mins to 1 hour or so) the write performance seems to drop. I start at 180-190 MBps write speed, but it starts to drop down to 150, then 120, and settles in around 90 MBps. The read speed seems perfectly fine, but the write speed definitely seems affected. Anyone else see this issue?
If I Sanitary Erase and start over, it's back to max speeds. Seems there's an issue in the write performance after the system is used for a while. I find that ironic as the new firmware with TRIM support was suppose to increase write performance over time not decrease it.
I am using the following:
Asus P6T with BIOS version 0801
Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping
6GB of Corsair XMS3 DDR3-1600
ASUS Geforce GTX 260
Windows 7 64bit RTM with TRIM enabled
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