Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
I've been playing around with this thing for a few
days now and its finally running great. I've still got
some tweaking to do speed up writes but overall
I'm very happy with it. I got the 32gb because it
was only $100 with the $10 mail in rebate and I'm
going to want a new faster one in a few months so
I didnt see the point of getting a larger drive. I'm
running Windows XP Pro on a Dell M1330 with 4gb
of 4-4-4-12 RAM and a T9300 processor.
Current Atto benchmarks for 128k through 8192k are:
Write:
80MB/sec to 98MB/sec with the average being
around 85MB/sec. Hitting 92MB/sec to 96MB/s
on a very regular basis.
Read:
161MB/sec to 162MB/sec with the average being
161.7MB/sec. I can't seem to get it over 162.7 but
I'm still tweaking.
Reads are super consistent and writes are good but
still jumpy. From 128k on up, they don't drop below
80MB/sec
If you're getting low speeds, go to your power options
and select "Always On", it made a huge difference on
my M1330. I'm not sure why it makes such a HUGE difference
but it does. Perhaps something to do with SpeedStep?
Write cache should be off and I prefer advanced system
settings to favor performance, not cache.
Indexing is disabled and I stripped a lot of stuff out with Nlite.
AHCI is off too.
I'm using NTFS. The drive is not partitioned (all I have for
hd is C: ) and I have 64K clusters. Getting the whole C:
drive to work with 64K clusters was a pain. When I formatted
to 64k with the command line using BartPe, I got an error
every I tried to boot into C:. Next I tried Partition Magic. The
drive was formatted to default clusters in NTFS (4k) and XP
Pro was installed. Than Partition Magic was used to change
the cluster size to 64k. It changed the cluster size but wouldnt
boot aftewards. Last (it always seems like the last method works)
I reformatted again and installed XP Pro with default NTFS. I than
used Acronis Disk Director Suite V10 to make a bootable cd. Only
the "Safe" bootable version would work properly for me. I selected
drive C: to change cluster size from 4k to 64k and it worked. I
booted back into Windows with no problems and the speed increase
was noticeable.
I still think Patriot was being pretty liberal on the "up 175+MB/s"
claim. I've tried a ton of cluster sizes and settings on FAT32 and
NTFS and still only max out at almost 163MB/s.
Hiram
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You got a huge different when you turn your battery option to Always on cause your system will run at full speed mean (full cpu, graphic card, hardriver speed) insteed of using half the real power of your laptop to save some battery. So when you'r on an AC adapter you better turn it to Always on
Finally Got My Patriot Warp V2 Running Fast With No Stuttering (M1330 XP Pro)
Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by hiram, Oct 17, 2008.
