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    OCZ Vertex 2 60GB What the heck?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by SillyHoney, Oct 23, 2010.

  1. SillyHoney

    SillyHoney Headphone Enthusiast

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    My WEI score under fresh Windows 7 (around 60% free space) was 7.7 out of 7.9

    Now I'm having ME2, BFBC2 and Crysis installed which leave 17% free space. And my CrystalDiskMark is WAY TO LOW for a SandForce2 controller bragging 280MB/s read and 275MB/s write.

    My HDD Test Suite in PCMark Vantage when free space was around 23% is ridiculously high: 25507. That's a day ago.

    My CDI Health Status few days ago was 93%? What? It dropped 7% in just over ten days since I bought the SSD? What does that 93% mean actually?
    I cannot uninstall my games to get free disk space just to run this stupid test for a minutes. My question is: Is there definitely something wrong with my SSD or 17% causes that much of performance impact?
    Thanks and cheers :)

    PS: Oh yes! I did ALL the optimizations an SSD could have from day one, already.
     

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  2. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    Sandisk controllers compress the data, the default CrystalDiskMark test does not show this, go to the file tab in CrystalDiskMark and change the test to All 00x0 , then test it again.
     
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  3. faiz23

    faiz23 Macbook FTW

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    also run a benchmark using ATTO and see how your results are OCZ uses ATTO rates as their marketed rates.
     
    faiz23, Oct 23, 2010
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  4. SillyHoney

    SillyHoney Headphone Enthusiast

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    First, +reps for both of you :D

    Second, I guess my SSD is fine. Here is the new result. Thanks again!
     

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  5. PanamaMike

    PanamaMike Notebook Evangelist

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    Did you make any changes? Maybe in the process of TRIMing?

    Mike
     
    PanamaMike, Oct 23, 2010
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  6. SillyHoney

    SillyHoney Headphone Enthusiast

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    Nope! I just followed those two great guys above advices :D
     
    SillyHoney, Oct 23, 2010
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