Upgraded my Z1290X to dual 256GB Crucial C300, Strange reboot problem

Glad to hear you're ok CC. It's hard to remember you're in Vermont; Texas always comes to mind.

As for your brown and gold Z, be patient; good things come to those who wait.

BTW, I hate to gloat, but I recently did a factory restore on my Z11 (384GB SSD - 128 X3 logical, Intel RST 10.6.0.1002 (if that matters), and have never before gotten more than 350 Mb/s read or 300 Mb/s write on CDM, on 5 different Z's, 128 and 256GB SSDs.

CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 529.985 MB/s
Sequential Write : 355.449 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 235.908 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 216.273 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 13.932 MB/s [ 3401.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 40.551 MB/s [ 9900.2 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 67.648 MB/s [ 16515.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 41.598 MB/s [ 10155.9 IOPS]

Test : 4000 MB [C: 9.5% (33.0/348.8 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2011/08/30 16:04:31
OS : Windows 7 [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)

(I still don't know how to put a jpg or thumbnail inside a post, so help me God!)

I know the 4k numbers are nothing to write home about, and maybe these numbers are meaningless in real life usage - as CC correctly noted with his dual Intel X18s - but it is a bit of a kick to see these numbers pop, for a change.

Amazingly, the WEI for my SDD went down, from 7.7 to 7.6. Go figure.

Ok, over it. No more gloating - certainly not if I can't even get a dam pic into a post!