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    Whats a good ssd read/write speed test prog?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by westerf4, Jul 31, 2011.

  1. westerf4

    westerf4 Notebook Enthusiast

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    So what is a good program to test my Crucial m4 ssd's read/write speeds? I am not sure it is performing up to the speeds that it is advertised at.

    Thanks
     
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    pmassey31545 Whats the mission sir?

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    Here ya go! Everybody's doin' it. OK. It's what I use and I have seen several others use it.
     
    pmassey31545, Jul 31, 2011
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    Awesome, so I ran the test on both my drives and here is what I came up with. My Crucial m4 is running significantly slower than advertised, unless I somehow ran and/or interpreted the test incorrectly. They advertise the read:415MB/s and write:175MB/s. Here is the link to the SSD, Newegg.com - Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD2 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
    Combine all this with the fact that the SSD will not cold boot without entering bios & exiting and this little ssd is becoming a pain in the butt.

    Crucial m4 SSD:
    [​IMG]


    7200rpm 500gb HDD that came with laptop:
    [​IMG]
     
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    THat is a big improvment
     
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    pmassey31545 Whats the mission sir?

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    Does your laptop support SATA III (6Gbps)? If it only supports SATA II (3Gbps) then that may be the problem. Of course I am just 'ballparking' here.
     
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    What firmware version is your SSD at? LPM could be causing performance issues.
     
    LaptopNut, Jul 31, 2011
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    I am running firmware 0001 on the crucial so I will work on upgrading it to 0002 today.
    As far as it being SATA III compatible... I was told by asus tech support that it both was and wasnt so... Perhaps that may be my handicap. I am running a G53SW-XN1, is there a way to physically check and see if it supports SATA III?
     
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    Be cautious when upgrading the firmware, I heard some lost their data. Firmware 0002 modifies power management but you can always do the same tweak by editing the registry if you wish.
     
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    It is SATA III. But even looking that up, I saw someone complaining about their ssd stuck in SATAII mode. Perhaps an indication of the issue.
     
    clone63, Aug 2, 2011
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    So any idea on how I can change my Intel storage device manager to something that will allow for SATA 3 speeds? I am using the mobile express RST driver
     
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    So I found the previous thread that addresses the same problem and ended up updating my Intel driver to to the mobile 6 series chipset.

    Here are the results.
    [​IMG]

    Significant increase, thanks for the help guys.
    I will still work on that Firmware update, maybe it will resolve my ssd's random 30-45second freezes...
     
    westerf4, Aug 2, 2011
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    Though Windows 7 is supposed to align SSD's properly when formatting, something may have gone wrong with yours, if the firmware does not fix its hanging. Perhaps format the partition table manually.
    Not a likely case but its all I can think of. A driver issue sounds more like the culprit.
     
    clone63, Aug 3, 2011
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    The firmware update fixed my freezing issue and it has been fine ever since (few weeks).
     
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    Well here is what I'm getting after switching to the Standard MS AHCI driver and updating the firmware to 0002. Hopefully it resolves the freezing issue.

    [​IMG]





    Thanks for the info!
     
    westerf4, Aug 4, 2011
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