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    Intel 520 poor benchmarks

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by taxmantoo, Sep 6, 2012.

  1. taxmantoo

    taxmantoo Notebook Evangelist

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    Upgrading from a 64GB Crucial C300 to a 240GB Intel 520.

    Did a fresh WIN 7 install, installed SP1, installed all the drivers that came with the notebook (Intel Rapid Storage, video, LAN, etc), and got these results for compressible and uncompressible data. I bought the Intel 520 mainly for the 4k random performance, and these numbers are about half what I expected.

    I've checked the alignment and it's good.

    I've installed about 25GB to the drive so far, does the Intel only run fast before you use it?

    In WEI, the drive gets a 7.8. I don't have full benchmarks for the 64GB C300 that I just took out of the system, but I do remember that it had a WEI of 7.9 in this same notebook (Two year old HP DV7t, 6xxx model series, 8GB ram, 2630QM processor)

    CrystalDiskMark:
    random data
    Seq read 451 write 296
    512k read 388 write 281
    4k read 22 write 47
    qd32 read 235 write 256

    compressible data
    seq 452 453
    512k 404 419
    4k 20 40
    QD32 182 189
     
    taxmantoo, Sep 6, 2012
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    Don't trust WEI, those speeds seem fine to me at first glance albeit i would have expected a tad faster, but nothing deal breaking.
     
    tijo, Sep 7, 2012
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    The big numbers are fine, but I was expecting more like 40s and 80s for the 4k instead of 20s and 40s.
    I did get 45/87 once last night in 32 bit crystaldiskmark after the computer had been idle for a while.

    So after downloading updates all night, I installed Intel SSD toolkit and ran an optimization (TRIM I assume) to recover my speed today. Got 23/45 in 4k random access after optimization.

    BTW, the drive was getting 7.9s in WEI this morning, don't know why it got a 7.8 yesterday.
     
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    Shmaddy, Sep 7, 2012
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    taxmantoo Notebook Evangelist

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    Ah, another of those wonderful guides telling us how to disable System Restore.

    OTOH, it may have a point when it suggests using MSAHCI instead of Intel RST. I think I'll try that next time I have my hands on the laptop. (it belongs to a friend)
     
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    Yup another guide suggesting both viable and unnecessary tweaks at the same time. Never follow those kind of guides blindly.
     
    tijo, Sep 8, 2012
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