gxb913 Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 Just got an Alienware M11x and placed an F40 drive into it as well as a clean installation of Windows 7 Professional x64. Ran the speed tests on AC power, my BIOS settings are set to AHCI and I have the most recent version of the firmware. Scored a 6.3 on the WEI but I've noticed that benchmark tends to not work so well with some SSD's...even moreso with the Sandforce controller. Any thoughts on what could be going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted January 12, 2011 Corsair Employee Share Posted January 12, 2011 I would suggest making an image of the current install and then use Parted Magic and secure erase the drive then install it as second drive and quick format it with a 4096 Allocation and test the drive with ATTO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxb913 Posted January 12, 2011 Author Share Posted January 12, 2011 Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a shot when I have another computer to reformat the drive. I'm curious if there was a way to avoid this before the installation? Shouldn't the allocation size been taken care of during one of the install steps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted January 18, 2011 Corsair Employee Share Posted January 18, 2011 Yes it should but its Microsoft sometimes it does not always work like it should. But to be sure its not some other problem formatting it as a second HDD and testing the drive will ensure its running properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted January 18, 2011 Share Posted January 18, 2011 See this thread, this guy had the exact same ATTO results as you did: http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=92103 I realize that Alienware is owned by Dell right now so I wouldn't be surprised if the XPS laptops had similar characteristics to the Alienware laptops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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