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    OCZ Agility 3 120gb

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by steve1ddd, Jul 16, 2011.

  1. steve1ddd

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    I just picked up this drive yesterday for about $185 and installed with no issues. Brought the firmware up to 2.09 first of course. Installed in port 1 and left the bios in Ahci and put in my secondary 750gb drive after the install was over, just to ensure no drive letter wierdness occured. I verified that i am getting 6Gbps via crystaldiskinfo. my speeds are abit slow however..no where near the rated 525/500 more like 200/140. i have followed most of the reg hacks and disable indexing and even tried turning off write caching on that drive... anyone got any ideas
     
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    OCZs drives do poorly on Crystal due to the Sandforce controllers. Open Crystal disk, select File (top left), then Test Data, then change it from Random to either 0 or 1. This will change the data to compressible data (which is what Sandforce excels at). Your numbers should go up (a lot). You can also use ATTO benchmark. When I used ATTO on my G Skill sandforce drive, the numbers were almost identical to spec (275 actual vs 285 spec).

    On another note my C300 gets almost identical to spec on the standard Crystal, this is due to the C300s emphasis on Random reading. I got 341 read/74 write when the published specs are 355read/75 write. So I'm right where I should be.

    Try those solutions and let us know what happens.

    Hope this helps.

    C300 Crystal
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    Here is my old SF-1222 drive on ATTO. 273mpbs reads.
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    wow, that mad a difference for sure...thanks man....my boot time is about 16 seconds so i really wasnt too concerned but it wasn kinda nagging me lol
     
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    Out of curiousity, what did the numbers change to? What is your Win7 index on the HDD?

    I may look at one of those drives so I'm curious how they do.
     
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    index is 7.9 the numbers were 485 on read and write.....not too shabby
     
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    Impressive. Was that on ATTO or Crystal?
     
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    crystal /10char
     
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