I got my SSD, derp.

New to this SSD thing, without any changes it's pretty ridiculously fast. Boot times are unreal but I feel like it could be better. I ran CrystalDiskMark and got this:



Is it normal for the 4K reads and writes to be that slow? Anybody with the C300 get better results?

 

You should read this
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol...et-can-not-take-full-advantage-fast-ssds.html

Profile-Tweak
CPU-Tweak

With it, you will get a little faster response and feels faster. But all SSDs are fast, even on stock settings.

 

I only did the tweaks in the thread:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol...-intel-series-4-5-965-chipsets-jjb-tweak.html

You can see the improvements in the post 198 in the same thread on page 20

EDIT: I didnt want to change the registry settings for intelppm and processor... seemed a little too much tbh.

 

I have the same drive and you're drive beats mine in every category by a little. Plus it beats me by .1 in the windows subscore for hard disk. I am officially jealous.

 

I don't have the same drive but my 4k spress are similar. Yours looks good. Run ATTO, it will give higher #s and make you feel better.

 

Kuro, we have the same SSD, those are my results:

Noticed that I had those tweaks applyed,

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol...-intel-series-4-5-965-chipsets-jjb-tweak.html
Core parking disabled and some other tweaks which is suggested around the forum




as you see they are pretty similar (even if I have some more 4k read speed and 66% of usage already...)


NOW I got this tweak as well

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sol...-series-4-5-965-chipsets-stamatisx-tweak.html

and I got those:



Still similar but with some nice boost I have to say

(PS, what are we going to do with our screens )

EDIT2
ALSO
C300 is well known for FREEZE PROBLEMs, you may recognize them because our HDD blue light will stay still for about 60 seconds, in which period your system will stop reacting (yet you can still do actions like crtl+alt+canc but with no effect)
In order to stop them (lately they had suddendly becomed MORE and MORE frequents I applyed this solution and I never got a single freeze since then!

 

I've got a sandforce drive too. Same deal. Like I've been saying ... it's a big bag of "Ehhhhh". Though if you change the data type from random to 0000 or 1111, it'll get a HUGE speed boost.

 

Thanks for the help guys, here are my results:



My original post was just on the Microsoft default drivers with no tweaks or nothing. The first one here is with the RST drivers and nothing else, the second one is with the JJB tweak, the third is the JJB + Stamatisx tweak. Unfortunately the last tweak completely turned off my Turbo Boost so I had to revert it plus it increased my temps a whopping 5-10C . I could live with the temps but the turbo boost is a big no, unless somebody knows how to have the tweak and the turbo boost?

Nice results! Yeah I was having some minor freezing in Firefox whenever I went to a new page, the RST drivers seem to fix it though. No major freezing though, it just hanged for a second going from page to page. I hope I don't experience anymore freezing because I don't have those registry entries, lol...I know that's going to come bite me later.

 

Herp. Congrats on the SSD. How much did you get it for?

 

OMG where were you when I had the problem. I just solved it with a clean install with no drivers added. Plus nice fine I did a ton of searching and never found this.

Link to me and another person having this problem.
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I wouldn't run the test 5 times with 1000MB of data written every run. You literally write over 100GB of data per test, effectively degrading your brand new SSD's lifespan by a few weeks - month.

 

sorry I thought I was like the only one here :X

 

$199 from Newegg. Pretty satisfied so far.

Good to know then.

 

is there any way to know the remainig life of a SSD drive? (or some diagnostic tool?)

 

Don't know, sorry.

But what I do know is that my G73 is now a beast! Bought a 180 GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD, and it is so much faster than the old seagate 7200 RPM HDD that used to be my boot-drive. Starts up and is ready to go in 25 seconds flat! Can't imagine going back to the old HDD, no way.

 

Good to know. I think mine does it in about the same time (sandforce based SSD), but my computer almost never gets restarted, so I couldn't tell ya...

 

If you own a OCZ SSD, their OCZ Toolbox will tell you the SMART statistics, a few of those tell you which blocks are read-only (meaning their write cycles have expired and are now read only), and there's some other useful info it can read. I think Intel also has a similar tool that reads the SMART data. Any other brand, you can try your luck with CrystalDiskInfo and other HDD/SSD tools that can read SMART, but they might not label each attribute properly (or read the proper value off it). It should last long enough for your next SSD update in a few years. (when SSDs cost the same as HDDs now and have over 1TB of capacity).

 

Yeah, I do not fear that the drive will die before I change my laptop was just curious to know, since it seems that their life isn't that long after all...

Ps:
Boot time in 21 seconds here