Anvil Storage Utilities

Sure. Here you go! My SSD is column #2

 

Thanks!

Looks like I had forgotten about memory cards
(was able to reproduce on my W510 w/SD card inserted)

Should have a new beta available later today.

 

Could you (anseio in particular) test the new beta7?

It can be found at Link but will be available at TheSSDReview as well. (it is sent but it will probably take a few hours)

It should fix the issue where it breaks out of detecting storage details prematurely.

 

I'm happy to do that for you. I'm not at home right now, so now power supply. Will run the beta later tonight and post results and that other query.

Edit:
Here are the results. The drive data is now captured. The WMI data did not change. I don't know if it should have. I also did not get the error message upon opening Anvil

 

The goal was to get rid of the error msg and to display the drive details.
(both are now ok )

 

Well, not so impressed, but it's a cheap setup so I shouldn't expect too much. Not so keen on these 0-fill benches, seem so meaningless. I did try writing and reading a 1GB file (non-compressible) and speeds were at somewhere around 120MB/s. I wonder if the SF controller still tries to compress it and ends up using more space while taking longer to do it.

I guess with normal SF compression it might help to increase life as a full disk might only be using say 60% of the available flash.

So, some more testing to do. At least I haven't seen any of these BSOD that a lot of OCZ users seem to be experiencing. Still early days though.

 

What is not so impressive? Compared to what?

120MB/s does seem like HDD territory to me (especially copying one that is 1GB in size).

SF controller claims are marketing (lying...) gimmicks at their best. Too bad.

Good to hear that you are not experiencing BSOD's (yet!) - hope you never see that side of their products.

Good to see you're back and thanks for the updates.

 

I didn't get that "WOW" impression. IDK, maybe I'm hard to impress. I would be interested to see what your results would be with testing throughput with the same test. The strong point with SSD is obviously low access latency but I'd have thought throughput would have been higher than what I have measured with my own test. It's not a copy test BTW, the file is generated in RAM then saved to disk. Time is measured from start of saving to finish for write performance then flush the RAM to remove any cached pages and read it back for read performance.

Booting W7 seems okay.

However W8 sucks at 22seconds although the immersive screen is up long before this. Have to investigate that.

lol, thanks for the vote of confidence.

 

Anvil, would you be able to post the latest link of Anvil Storage Utilities as even Beta 7 has now expired?

Thanks!

 

Beta8 IIRC expires sometime after mid November.

 

Thanks Dufus!

Here are a couple of more ASU (B8) showing an Intel 320 160GB SSD with and without the new PerfectCache 5.0 from Raxco.

Pretty impressive? And I also will compare tomorrow with ASU to the FancyCache results from this post here:

See:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/7817512-post27.html

Just as I mentioned in the FancyCache post above: although the 'score' is so much higher with the PerfectCache turned on - it is nowhere near as noticeable in actual use though (maybe 10-15% faster - not over 6 times faster as the 'score' might suggest).

This is even further proof (for me at least) that a (current/modern) storage subsystem impacts a platform much less than we realize - given a certain level of HDD or SSD, of course.

I'm actually curious to see how PerfectCache compares to FancyCache on the mechanical XT Hybrid (maybe tomorrow).

See:

 

Kinda strange that the read is so high. Would have thought with caching the improvements would have been with the writes.

 

Yeah, but from what I have seen in only a few hours: PerfectCache is much more stable (they do have a reputation to protect) than when FancyCache was on my systems (had to rebuild one from scratch when FancyCache was running and needed rebooting to finish installing Windows updates).

Having said that, there is a price to pay for stability: benchmark 'scores'.


See:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/7817512-post27.html

The link above is the post with the FancyCache ASU benchmark.

Keep in mind that FancyCache was tested with a 105GB partition and Firmware SD25. PerfectCache is presented here with a 35GB partition and SD28 Firmware. Don't know if that will make a difference, but wanted to point it out.

Showing ~45 times the performance of an XT Hybrid (vs. 102x that FancyCache achieved) is still impressive. The 'feel' of this highly increased performance though is still in the low teens, percentage-wise - no matter how much the scores might suggest otherwise (again, ~15% from an already responsive system - in other words; noticeable, but not really needed).

In the end, running PerfectCache on a system with no directly impacted workload for it is just for bragging rights (or 'scores'). Current mechanical storage subsystems (and modern O/S's) are more than adequate and probably much more stable without products like FancyCache or PerfectCache installed.

If you have the available RAM and a workload scenario (database?) that can benefit from a block level caching program like PerfectCache, then not only is PerfectCache superior to any and all SSD's available now, it is also a fraction of their price too.

Here is the PerfectCache ASU benchmark, below:

 

ASU Beta9

Shows Option ROM version.

Expires Jan 27th

 

Dufus, ty!

 

Anvil Storage Utilities v1.0.34 Beta 11 released.

Expires May 2012
Next beta will include more on full-span testing, expected within a few weeks

new download link for Beta11

Anvil's Storage Utilities

 

Anvil Storage Utilities RC1 released

http://www.ssdaddict.com/apps/AnvilBenchmark_RC1.zip

Release Candidate 1 (2012-05-19)
- Expires September 2012

Fixes
-Fixed bug when USB drives are connected
-Fixed bug when there are unpartitioned drives

What's new
-ASU now requires Administrative rights.
-USB drives are now supported
-TRIM can be triggered if TRIM is supported by the OS, will work on most drives that supports TRIM.
-Default Compression is set to 100% (Incompressible)
-New setting for Enabling/Disabling testing with "Write-Cache Buffer Flushing" on the X79 when using the 3 series RSTe driver.

-Endurance : Layout changed

Temporary test folder renamed from _AP_BENCH to _ASU_BENCH, the folder is at the root of the drive.
In case the system shuts down and ASU is not able to clean up the test folder, the contents can be deleted.
Files produced by ASU Benchmark have the following extensions : TRM and TST

Make sure that you don't have any folders that are in conflict with the test folder.

 

Anvil Storage Utilities RC2 released

Fixes

- It now detects OS's using WMI. (it wasn't handling new OS's properly)
- Drive-name is now being displayed top right.
- Changes to colors, more theme friendly.

http://www.ssdaddict.com/apps/AnvilBenchmark_RC2.zip

 

Anvil Storage Utilities RC6 released.

Expires December 31,2013

http://www.ssdaddict.com/apps/AnvilBenchmark_RC6.zip

 

WhatsThePoint,

thanks for the update to the latest release version.

 

Anvil Storage Utilities updated to version 1.1.0 dated 01_03_2014

http://www.ssdaddict.com/apps/AnvilBenchmark_V110_B337.zip

Fixes
- Removed Expiry date
- Minor fixes

IMO,the best synthetic SSD benchmark