Weird problem with X-25m G2

[idata]

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]

I'm thinking about reinstalling my system ( win7). Yes I'm on a desktop.

Well maybe u say my results are good but how the hell did this other guy get so much more? And I've checked his system its not that so much better than mine..

Anyway, about AHCI: I'm a noob at BIOS and I dont really know where to change the SATA to AHCI.

In my BIOS there is something called "Integrated Peripherals".

Then, there are 2 other things: Sata raid/achi mode - where I can choose Disable/RAID/AHCI

Is this where I change to AHCI?

Or is it on "Onboard SATA/IDA CTRL Mode" - IDE/AHCI/RAID-IDE ?

Please help!

[idata]

Yeah, You should be getting little better results in 512 and 4K reads.

As for the bios settings I'd say its the 2nd one:

"Onboard SATA/IDA CTRL Mode" - IDE/AHCI/RAID-IDE --> set to AHCI

But perhaps u could switch both of them settings to AHCI?

Let us know if reinstalling with AHCI worked and whats your results after reinstall.

[idata]

Kaleido,

Your bios setting is enable raid/achi mode.

Success,

Roland

[idata]

Okey so now I reinstalled Win7 with AHCI. I've also installed the chipset drivers.

This is my current result, you can compare it with my eirlier one...

I've somehow even LOST points in the most of the tests... What?!

As before, compare this to a guy who is also running Win7. I'm using an icore 5 and he icore 7, but that shouldn't make THIS big of difference:

Look at the results to the right.

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/1037/ssdchart.jpg http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/1037/ssdchart.jpg

I would like someone to explain this!

[idata]

I was getting numbers similar but somewhat lower than yours, although I have a Toshiba A210 laptop with a weak AMD processor. However, the real world performance was so terrible that I pulled it out and put in a generic 5400 RPM fujitsu hdd and reimaged it with a fresh Windows 7 install. With the x-25m, every click of a folder took at least 4 seconds to open, sometimes up to 10 seconds. The amazing boot times and responsiveness I read about simply never existed; I read tons of optimization websites and have tried everything short of re-imaging, which I'll do IF we ever see a firmware update. I'm extremely disappointed with this drive, I'm holding out hope that a firmware update and a clean install will make the drive useable again.