Weird problem with X-25m G2

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Does anyone know why my 4k read/write is so much slower than other people with the same drive??? Its a brand new X-25m G2 drive.

I even used HHDErase 3.3 to secure erase the drive when i first benchmarked it. I thought something was wrong with it. But even after a second secure erase, i am still having the same problem.

I have attached two different benchmarks. Everything is normal for the SEQUENTIAL read/write and RANDOM 512K Read/Write

Problem is with my 4K scores. It seems as tho they are cut in half than what they are supposed to be. AHCI is enabled. CrystalDiskMark 2.2 -------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (C) 2007-2008 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ http://crystalmark.info/ -------------------------------------------------- Sequential Read : 258.695 MB/s Sequential Write : 87.820 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 198.667 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 85.654 MB/s Random Read 4KB : 17.172 MB/s Random Write 4KB : 32.277 MB/s Test Size : 100 MB Date : 2009/09/20 23:38:05

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Attachment is the "AS http://forum.notebookreview.com/autolink.php?id=2987&script=showthread&forumid=27 SSD Benchmark Software"

[idata]

For a Laptop I think it is a pretty good prformance. All the screenshots I posted are taken from Desktops. However, I have something in my mind that some energy saving option may slow down the SSD.

Im not 100% sure but I think this was written in a Toms Hardware Guide article.

[idata]

I have the exact same problem, and it's really annoying to see that my 80go postville has is main advantage over OCZ vertex (4k writes) divided by 2.

Would be nice to have an other explanation that "you ve got a laptop, it's ok", yes i've got a laptop, but it has Intel proc / Intel chipset / Intel ..., so it would be quite annoying if you couldn't answer us.

Thx to people who will help especially if their' not paid to do it.

A half Happy / half Frustrated customer that bought Intel product thinking it would mean serenity.

[idata]

I do have same problem as well. I do expect something better from this drive, aspecially on Intel platform as Aznox stated.

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Bunta,

Did you benchmark this from a laptop or desktop - if from a laptop your sata port's bandwidth is 1.5 Gb/s - newer generation desktop boards have sata 3 Gb/s - if you indeed did that benchmark from your laptop I would say amazing result.

Roland

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I knew about the 1.5 gb/s vs 3.0 Gb/s issues before i purchased the Intel SSD. I verified i have 3.0 GB/s. And this is indeed on a laptop.