SSD Issue

Installed Crucial m4 to MoBo with SATA 2 capabilities. Went through an IOCREST Asmedia(ASM1061) Controller...SATA 3... plugged into PCIx4. Read: 193.32 MB/s Write: 172.81 MB/s. Really bad. Used AS SSD Benchmark 1.6.4237.30508
I used SATA 3 cables. Had to turn off Defrag and a few other things manually that I felt Windows 7 should have turned off. MAYBE an issue with M4 itself. AHCI enabled. Plugged into MoBo SATA port 1/0. I probably need an updated driver for the Controller Card. Any links anyone? Widows loaded a generic driver. Some corruption now in registry. Any way to correct corruption in an SSD, as I am thinking the HD windows tools will probably make it worse.

 

Rainwalker,

http://www.overclock.net/t/1179518/seans-ssd-buyers-guide-information-thread

 

Thanks Brian...Yes, dropping the the PCIe controller/marvel driver improved things. Had to also uninstall Marvel driver as just sitting there stopped Windows from loading. I am now showing Read: 267 Write: 233 Total 545. I feel I could do better yet. Any thoughts?

 

Rainwalker,

I was considering buying a PCIe card until I saw that web page. I have an Intel 520 Series 120 GB SSD plugged into a SATA II motherboard. My ATTO benchmarks are Read 284, Write 268. So they are much the same as yours.

From what I've read, plugging into a SATA III motherboard gives you better benchmarks but subjectively you don't notice any difference.

 

Yup...there is a bit of a learning curve when moving to SSD. For one thing a few old habits have to be dropped. No problem though. Nature abhors a vacuum

 

I've dropped defragging. What else have you dropped?

 

First update the firmware

http://www.crucial.com/support/firmware.aspx

What motherboard do you have? usually they will have 1 Intel & 1 marvel SATA3 slot. You must use the Intel one to get good read/write performance.

Third you need to do a fresh ionstall of Windows on the SSD if you want TRIM enabled by default + other performance enhancements.

 

ComputerSaysNo,

I just restored my old HD images to the SSD. TRIM was already enabled when I checked to see if it was ON.

 

Intel RSTL driver is must and not the Microsoft ACHI driver.

Best regards,

 

Cannot use Sleep Mode
Privazer screwed things up so no longer use. Uptight about trying BleachBit
Superfetch on full(3)
Pagefile off( have 8 gigs memory)...might change later. We'll see
Indexing off(don't really need it)
Win Defrag on...for now

@ComputerSaysNo Thanks, but all is cool there.
@aladdin Hmmm...seems once upon a time I saw something about that, but paid little attention. Would you please send a good link or two explaining.

 

Bleechbit is good software. I use it daily and wipe my SSD hard drive space with it with no noticible impact.