new X25-M huge spike in HD-tune

Hi I'm trying to enjoy my new intel X25-m but hd-tune shows a lot of spike for a 6 hour old SSD I was wondering if it is normal

 

How filled is the drive? Because if I understand the X25-M correctly, the read speed is reduced when there is actual data on it.

 

57% is used

 

G1 Version

I bought this drive used from someone, had no active partitions, just installed vista to test the drive, i'm guessing my lack of speed has to do with my sata setting i'm obviously saturating something, it was tested on the ICH7M chipset. Either way if all i can get out of it is 100mbps its just crazy how much of a difference in speed these drives are

 

At least yours is consistant and has half the access time.

Just wondering if I image my drive, zero it out with hdderase then put back the image on it will it help for long-term or it will be back to it's current state in a week

 

My suggestion: HD Tune isn't a very good test. Since that test is old it was made specifically for mechanical hard drives and seems to get confused with SSDs.

CrystalDiskMark 2.2 is popular with the SSD testers, and there are others. Look at the AnandTech articles.

 

I'd love to believe you but did you read anywhere reliable that HD Tune isn't very. I already red all anandtech article but such a erratic HD-Tune result was kinda worrying me anyway nothing like comparing random 4k read/write with my 7200rpm to put a smile on my face

Still is initial vista and software software enough to justify ghosting and erase the drive (performance wise)

 

Sorry for the confusion. Here's what I was thinking when I said that HDTune wasn't the best test. HDTune looks at (a) sequential transfers and (b) how sequential transfer speed changes across the drive platter. The industry (and testers, journalists and enthusiasts) have been learning that (a) sequential transfer speeds don't mean much and (b) SSDs don't have platters so a test across the platter doesn't mean much.

 

Go test the drive in about a week and it should stabilize if it would comfort you for HDTune. 6 hours is pretty early for testing.

I didn't even bother with HD benchmarks on the SSD until like a month after I bought it.

 

Just retested in a different system, Geforce 6150 with MCP 430 chipset, performs as it should, a bit of a spike initially but after that its smooth sailing, from my earlier results i was probably running at sata 1 speeds.