PM800 ssd drives on m17x

hi all

i have the new alienware m17x and i refuse to say dell lol.

is there anyway to make these drives faster ?

i ask this cos my AS SSD BENCHMARK shows my write speeds as low at 60mb/s when it should be hitting 200 mb/s.
my read speeds are fantastic my benchmark hit it at 335mb/s.

i have gone resource monitor and i dont see anything using 160mb/s

i cannot figure it out and i hope someone out there can help me.

thank you
mike

 

Have you written to the drive a lot? How much space free do you have?

It might need cleaning, but that is a subject for another thread....

 

I have 367GB left and its been defraged etc, and my 3DMARK06 score was lol ready ?? 13564 with 1280 rez

ive been reading other ppls post and their hitting 16k

 

ive heard defragging a ssd causes more harm than good

 

Do you have 2 of those drives in a RAID 0 setup?

 

yeah and yeah, ive only defraged once this morning

(just made sig to show my setup)

 

Well, write performance will deteriorate very quickly with these drives once they start filling up.

This is an inherent problem with all current-gen SSD's. Until firmware gets released to have a garbage-collecting feature than your going to have to use something like secure erase to get it back to stock speeds.

 

secure erase, dont normal recycle bin remove garbage ?

 

I am not going to do a whole write-up here, so I'd suggest you post in the SSD thread or google "SSD write performance"...

 

thanks sleey0, i have done nothing but spend alot of time on google trying to make it quicker and there is f all,
only info about now faster ssd drives etc

p.s i didnt know there was a ssd thread am kinda new and there is alot of info on here.
thank you and ill go find it and read

 

Here is a good article to get you started

 

SSDs sound like more trouble than they are worth, honestly.

 

a beast
I have a simlar set up as your machine, 2X256 gig SSD's in raid 0.
My hd tune score was 147 min, 291 max, and average 221. I have 377 gig free. After researching about the drives, you'll find alot of different opinions.
For me, I would next to never defrag these drives. Also, I have turned off the auto defrag feature in Vista 64.
I hoping that new firmware will be available soon to help increase the efficiency.
rj

 

thanks vtrick for the tips, ive turned off auto defrag and windows defender.

 

Yup never defrag an SSD there just no pointm the whole defrang is meant for traditional HDD where access time deteriorates with multiple different files having to be accessed from all over the disk.... on SSD acces times are <0.2 MS vs 8.0 on HDD so clearly this is not an issue ever.

That said, you still need to maintail the drives instead of defrag you need to Trim, unfortunately there isnt anything in Vista/XP to support this however Windows 7 will have native SSD support.

The good news is that you can maintain this with other tools. Diskkeeper does a great job (I hear)

Check HyperFast Technology on this link:

http://www.diskeeper.com/diskeeper/home/home.aspx

Also SSD is a new technology so there isn't a ton of expertise, but this forum has a ton of resources (may not be Samsung but an SSD is an SSD )

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=186

 

Can you check the actual transfer rates with HD Tune?

 

hey that was a great article! Confirms everything I thought about SSDs, and why I was right to not go with them for now.