2 year old SSD, is something wrong?

Hello guys.

I have been using this OCZ Agility II 60gb for over 2 years, now rocking my desktop for OS installation.

Stats are as follows:

Max Read: up to 285MB/s
Max Write: up to 275MB/s
Sustained Write: up to 250MB/s
Random Write 4KB (Aligned): 10,000 IOPS

Never done a benchmark since I bought until today.

I used AS SSD benchmark.



And results are funky though I fell my computer is still blazing fast.

Any thoughts? Am I doing something wrong or is this the "SSD wear"?

Have a good day.

 

Your sequential read speeds look like they're super high for some reason, but the write speeds seem reasonable for such a drive.

You can always do a secure erase and see what results you get afterwards. You will want to backup/image your drive first though, because secure erase will completely wipe your drive, but it should refresh performance. But with that drive I doubt it will do much better. 60GB over 2 years can be a lot of wear, and they were never that fast to begin with.

You can compare results with this review of the drive from 2010: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3667/oczs-agility-2-reviewed-the-first-sf1200-with-mp-firmware/4

 

The results are wrong - no SATA SSD can have a read speed of 3818MB/s since this is higher than SATA 3 interface max speed. Try running ATTO benchmark to and post the result here please.

 

I would redownload and re run that AS SSD benchmark... I think something is wrong there!

 

Hi again guys sorry for the late reply.

I did another benchmark with ATTO, definately something is going on:



Any advice is appreciated.

What can be the cause?

Have a good day all.

 

You have a caching software installed and operating on that drive. Or something like eBoostr (with a USB drive attached).

See:
How to Make Your Computer Faster | eBoostr


Either way, those are not your real drive speeds. First; because it is an O/S drive (correct?) and second, because as stated above, even if some results are above the SATA3 standards; caching is involved.

 

Make sure that NTFS compression is not enabled for the entire drive.

 

namaiki,

That is a good suggestion and I did 'like' your post. However, thinking a little bit about it... it would probably slow it down overall (and the OP hasn't noticed that) if everything that could be compressed is compressed on a SF drive, no?

 

Thanks for the answers.

I think I should detail the topic further.

This disk is an OS disk, my windows 8.1 Update 1 resides there and I am doing benchmarks through this OS.

I don't have any caching software, no RAID, no NTFS compression.

At the second time I posted the bechmarks, there was a 16 gb usb pen drive and e-sata hdd was plugged in. I removed them and did the benchmark again; same results.



Is there a benchmark software that you can recommend through linux?

I was thinking about booting a liveCD and doing the benchmarks from there.

 

Is this a clean Win8.1 Update 1 install to a formatted drive? Or was it cloned from an image?

What notebook/platform are we talking about? How much RAM? Any additional drivers installed?

There is nothing right about your benchmarks; either the O/S, the drive or both are hosed.

 

Yes.

It's a desktop with Intel Z77 Express chipset.

8 gigs of RAM, another 500 gb platter hard drive is installed. AHCI.

I'm planning on doing a Secure Erase via OCZ Toolbox. It is written all around the web that secure erase can restore performance of old drivers. Any thoughts on that?

Thanks.

 

Do you have any Windows tweaks going on?

A SE should bring back the performance to 'like new', but it also has a chance to kill the drive too.


Good luck.