Our 910 SSD performance is low.

idata — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:43:13 GMT

We are using two of the Intel 910 SSD PCIe drives in a Dell 810 server and getting about 25% of the performance that we would expect. What are we missing? I have used the SSD data center tool and turned up the power, but that only helped a little with write performance. Here is some info on our config;

OS Name Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter

Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601

Other OS Description Not Available

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Name BIDB1

System Manufacturer Dell Inc.

System Model PowerEdge R810

System Type x64-based PC

Processor Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7- 8837 @ 2.67GHz, 2660 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. 2.4.4, 8/12/2011

SMBIOS Version 2.6

Windows Directory C:\Windows

System Directory C:\Windows\system32

Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1

Locale United States

Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"

User Name Not Available

Time Zone Pacific Daylight Time

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 256 GB

Total Physical Memory 256 GB

Available Physical Memory 4.66 GB

Total Virtual Memory 264 GB

Available Virtual Memory 12.2 GB

Page File Space 8.00 GB

Page File E:\pagefile.sys

Drive info;

Description Disk drive

Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)

Model INTEL(R) SSD 910 200GB SCSI Disk Device

Bytes/Sector 512

Media Loaded Yes

Media Type Fixed hard disk

Partitions 2

SCSI Bus 0

SCSI Logical Unit 0

SCSI Port 2

SCSI Target ID 0

Sectors/Track 63

Size 186.31 GB (200,047,034,880 bytes)

Total Cylinders 24,321

Total Sectors 390,716,865

Total Tracks 6,201,855

Tracks/Cylinder 255

Partition Disk # 0, Partition # 0

Partition Size 1.00 MB (1,048,576 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 17,408 bytes

Partition Disk # 0, Partition # 1

Partition Size 186.19 GB (199,915,395,584 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 134,235,136 bytes

Description Disk drive

Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)

Model INTEL(R) SSD 910 200GB SCSI Disk Device

Bytes/Sector 512

Media Loaded Yes

Media Type Fixed hard disk

Partitions 2

SCSI Bus 0

SCSI Logical Unit 0

SCSI Port 2

SCSI Target ID 1

Sectors/Track 63

Size 186.31 GB (200,047,034,880 bytes)

Total Cylinders 24,321

Total Sectors 390,716,865

Total Tracks 6,201,855

Tracks/Cylinder 255

Partition Disk # 1, Partition # 0

Partition Size 1.00 MB (1,048,576 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 17,408 bytes

Partition Disk # 1, Partition # 1

Partition Size 186.19 GB (199,915,395,584 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 134,235,136 bytes

Description Disk drive

Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)

Model INTEL(R) SSD 910 200GB SCSI Disk Device

Bytes/Sector 512

Media Loaded Yes

Media Type Fixed hard disk

Partitions 2

SCSI Bus 0

SCSI Logical Unit 0

SCSI Port 2

SCSI Target ID 2

Sectors/Track 63

Size 186.31 GB (200,047,034,880 bytes)

Total Cylinders 24,321

Total Sectors 390,716,865

Total Tracks 6,201,855

Tracks/Cylinder 255

Partition Disk # 2, Partition # 0

Partition Size 1.00 MB (1,048,576 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 17,408 bytes

Partition Disk # 2, Partition # 1

Partition Size 186.19 GB (199,915,395,584 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 134,235,136 bytes

Description Disk drive

Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)

Model INTEL(R) SSD 910 200GB SCSI Disk Device

Bytes/Sector 512

Media Loaded Yes

Media Type Fixed hard disk

Partitions 2

SCSI Bus 0

SCSI Logical Unit 0

SCSI Port 2

SCSI Target ID 3

Sectors/Track 63

Size 186.31 GB (200,047,034,880 bytes)

Total Cylinders 24,321

Total Sectors 390,716,865

Total Tracks 6,201,855

Tracks/Cylinder 255

Partition Disk # 3, Partition # 0

Partition Size 1.00 MB (1,048,576 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 17,408 bytes

Partition Disk # 3, Partition # 1

Partition Size 186.19 GB (199,915,395,584 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 134,235,136 bytes

Description Disk drive

Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)

Model INTEL(R) SSD 910 200GB SCSI Disk Device

Bytes/Sector 512

Media Loaded Yes

Media Type Fixed hard disk

Partitions 1

SCSI Bus 0

SCSI Logical Unit 0

SCSI Port 3

SCSI Target ID 0

Sectors/Track 63

Size 186.31 GB (200,047,034,880 bytes)

Total Cylinders 24,321

Total Sectors 390,716,865

Total Tracks 6,201,855

Tracks/Cylinder 255

Partition Disk # 4, Partition # 0

Partition Size 186.31 GB (200,048,566,784 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes

Description Disk drive

Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)

Model INTEL(R) SSD 910 200GB SCSI Disk Device

Bytes/Sector 512

Media Loaded Yes

Media Type Fixed hard disk

Partitions 1

SCSI Bus 0

SCSI Logical Unit 0

SCSI Port 3

SCSI Target ID 1

Sectors/Track 63

Size 186.31 GB (200,047,034,880 bytes)

Total Cylinders 24,321

Total Sectors 390,716,865

Total Tracks 6,201,855

Tracks/Cylinder 255

Partition Disk # 5, Partition # 0

Partition Size 186.31 GB (200,048,566,784 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes

Description Disk drive

Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)

Model INTEL(R) SSD 910 200GB SCSI Disk Device

Bytes/Sector 512

Media Loaded Yes

Media Type Fixed hard disk

Partitions 1

SCSI Bus 0

SCSI Logical Unit 0

SCSI Port 3

SCSI Target ID 2

Sectors/Track 63

Size 186.31 GB (200,047,034,880 bytes)

Total Cylinders 24,321

Total Sectors 390,716,865

Total Tracks 6,201,855

Tracks/Cylinder 255

Partition Disk # 6, Partition # 0

Partition Size 186.31 GB (200,048,566,784 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes

Description Disk drive

Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)

Model INTEL(R) SSD 910 200GB SCSI Disk Device

Bytes/S...

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