Corsair Force GT 120 AS SSD Bench score low or normal?

Was wondering if these numbers look normal? The only thing thats off is the 4K64Thrd score. I have a couple old sandforce 60gb in raid 0 that is nearly double that 4k64Thrd score which for some reason gives it a higher overall read score even though the other numbers are higher.

 

Here is my Force GT 120:

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee28/davidm671/as-ssd-benchCorsairForceG21820129-17-41AM.png

 

And here a couple of Adata 60gb sata2 ssds in raid 0:

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee28/davidm671/as-ssd-benchAMD20StripeR21820129-40-01AM.png

 

Using the latest 1.33 firmware on the GT. Windows 7 64. Perhaps because its also benched off the boot drive as opposed to benching it from another windows os install so the drives not in use makes a difference in ssd score?

 

Thanks.

Just installed latest AMD chipset raid and ahci drivers from AMD site and now my SSD AS bench 4k64thrd scores are in the 20s!

 

Got to be a chipset issue. I also checked to make write cache is enabled...

 

Whats with AMD..

Your scores are pretty much spot on for the AS SSD scores. What you might be forgetting is AS SSD uses data that is predominantly incompressible. While the Corsair's SandForce controller uses DuraWrite compression technology.

Which means your ssd will not score good on these benchmarks. You can use ATTO which works fine with the Corsair and you should get the 500/500 advertised speeds then. Thanks

This was yesterdays score:

 

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee28/davidm671/corsairgt1.png

 

This is todays after updating to AMDs latest driver release:

 

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee28/davidm671/corsairgt2.png

 

Its obviously 100mb/sec slower today for some reason. These drives don't degrade this fast??

 

Thanks.

Sounds like the driver did it.

I booted up from my old installation partition which has the original drivers installed and reran the benchmark off of the Force GT SSD. Anyhow the scores are back to normal. If I cant undo the damage I'll have to start over ..

 

Thanks.

Clearly a driver thing. Did you ever use Windows native AHCI driver, msahci? Can't be used for RAID of course, but easily loaded and changed back.

 

Are you sure those AMD drivers are for your chipset? Even though the latest AMD chipsets are supposed to be no different in their SATA implementation and performance, who knows what else was changed for the FX-8000 series CPUs?

Clearly a driver thing. Did you ever use Windows native AHCI driver, msahci? Can't be used for RAID of course, but easily loaded and changed back.

 

Are you sure those AMD drivers are for your chipset? Even though the latest AMD chipsets are supposed to be no different in their SATA implementation and performance, who knows what else was changed for the FX-8000 series CPUs?

 

This is why gentlemen prefer Intel over Amd. As I have an Asus Crosshair Formula IV running in Raid mode mostly except when I switched into AHCI for the firmware update utility (didn't commit to the update as my firmware it reported was already up to date), but I switched back into Raid mode after. Then I ran the AMD SB-8 Series chipset software package and updated the raid drivers. After that the bench results were pathetic. Am I sure they were for my chipset? I assumed they were. Tell you this much I will NEVER buy anything AMD again (except maybe for gpus) but the lack of support, poor driver roll out, and more leaves a bad taste.

 

What ever it did I can't figure it out and will be restoring my backup from yesterday..

 

Thanks.

Only way to fix this was to restore the whole partition fresh all over again. Lost an Antivirus license install in the process. Oh well.

You can either roll back the driver. Or uninstall it and clean out the registry. and the third option would be to do a system restore before you installed the driver that messed it up.

 

Well that sucks. but glad you got it sorted out. Thanks

You can either roll back the driver. Or uninstall it and clean out the registry. and the third option would be to do a system restore before you installed the driver that messed it up. Thanks

 

I did every thing short of cleaning out the registry. Was easier just to restore the old partition. Blogging about it on Asus's site to see if they have any ideas as far as where to go for more current working drivers.

 

Thanks

Hi,

 

I ran the benchmarks again on my other Corsair 120GB non-GT Force 3 drive thats on an Intel Z68 Sata6 controller Windows 7 64 and these are the scores.

Not sure about the ATTO bench but its compressable data like you said so maybe its alright? But its half as much as the GT. Also wondering how this compressable data relates to real world performance?

 

Thanks

 

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee28/davidm671/as-ssd-benchCorsairForce3219201211-19-20AM.png

 

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee28/davidm671/Force3120.png

Files like "media files" {music, movies} are mostly incompressible. Hence since they are already compressed. Files such as a ".exe" really don't compress much. Dealing with large files, a compression method is sometimes used. While AS SSD is a perfect real world test it is close in my opinion. Boils down to your price/performance and what files are you messing with regular I would say. Thanks

Files like "media files" {music, movies} are mostly incompressible. Hence since they are already compressed. Files such as a ".exe" really don't compress much. Dealing with large files, a compression method is sometimes used. While AS SSD is a perfect real world test it is close in my opinion. Boils down to your price/performance and what files are you messing with regular I would say. Thanks

 

I had no idea there was such a wide gap between the standard Force 3 and the GT in regards to compressible data for the $15 dollar price difference you get double performance in favor of the GT. As far as system boot up times and real world performance it may not matter much I guess. Wow!

 

Thanks.