Is this benchmark right, or do I have issues...

The 300mb/s is nice, then it falls to 120mb/s

 

Have you tried other benchmarking programs like CrystalDiskMark, AS SSD and Atto?

 

well, put it simply, the score isn't right, but it may not be ssd's fault.

what controller do you have it connected to? what os are you using and how full is your disk?

 

Its in my m6600, SATA3, at that time it was 50%ish full



After a few games it's 85% full, but this doesn't seem right...

 

Honestly, this seems ok to me for an agility 3 drive. The agility 3 was never the best performer and the drive is a bit full as well so that probably impacts performance a little as well.

EDIT: After checking my benchmarks again, those indeed seem a bit slow, but this isn't the first time i've seen such scores for an agility 3. I mean even my M4 on SATA II gets higher scores for the most part. The SF controllers really excel at compressible data, but not that much for incompressible data, could you post an Atto benchmark? The fact that the Agility 3 uses asynchronous NAND doesn't help either.
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Similar scores to yours: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/638916-agility-3-slow-g53sw-a1.html

 

While this is not an apples to apples comparison - here's my C300 on SATA II if you want to use that for comparison.

Are you sure the SSD is plugged into a SATA III port? Perhaps you have more than one supported SATA type.

 

Yup, those scores seem OK. Atleast for the CrystalDiskMark. The HD Tune I really don`t know. Try running 1 read benchmark and 1 write benchmark with HD Tune and compare with these results:



Here are some other results to compare with



You may have fallen for the bull propaganda OCZ have been telling you about:
Max Read: up to 525MB/s
Max Write: up to 500MB/s

That is only for compressed data. Incompressible data however is hard for any Sandforce SSD, because of the Duraclass technology, which means the drive operates under a lot lower speed with those data.
But you have to look in the PDF-file @ OCZ homepage to see the whole picture:
Max Read: 195MB/s
Max Write: 130MB/s
http://www.ocztechnology.com/res/manuals/OCZ_Agility3_Product_sheet.pdf

 

he was testing with vanilla hdtune, so no writing, and also writing would require removing any partitions from it.

I've tested both my ssd's the other day, and there is linear read on both of them, both are about 50% full , though none of them is using SF controller (m4 and 830).

I currently don't have enough experience with SF drives to make a definite judgement though.
But, if you say there was only 50% data on the disk, there should not be such large area of slow read if it was compressible data that bothers that drive.. 75-80% od disk space was affected by the problem.

could you post screenshot of initial screen of as-ssd (just run it and select ssd, no need for running tests)?

 

100% certain that its on a sata3 port.



The overall speed wasn't what worried me, it was the fact that the graph was all over the place...

 

CDM3 look right but AS shouldn't be so far away.

Try intel driver instead of MS?

 

comparing those to my benchmarks... ugg I don't think TRIM works in bootcamp.

I have a macbook air. I checked and it said TRIM is working but with these benchmarks I doubt it.

 

as baiii sugested already, do try installing latest intel rst drivers and run hdtach again.

alignment is ok, but ms drivers have lower performance than intels, also could be reasons behind these slowdowns.