In-Fluence Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Hi people. After having my 90Gb SSD for a few weeks, I got around to installing it. Performance was poor unfortunately, and it wouldn't go above 150MB/s sequential read, even on the marvell SATA3 connector on my Gigabyte X58a-UD3r, but that did provide the best performance. Anyway, I had an issue with my Raid1 HDD array at the same time and went to update the firmware on a pair of 'different brand' drives to resolve known issues. It turned out one of the drives was on its way out anyway, but then I noticed this after booting: http://ridestoriches.freshsyntax.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/SSD-Issue.jpg I admit it was probably very foolish of me to leave the drive connected, but as this firmware update utility ran immediately after the next reboot the update went ahead on my array before I could do anything. The updater itself reported the Force 3 drive was connected, and also said it did not attempt any update on it. Is there a way to reset this drive's size? I'm still new to SSD but know my way around bios etc. I've tried different drivers, reflashing the 1.3.3 firmware, AHCI windows drivers. Tried in Jmicron, Marvell and ICH10R controllers and no change! The 'fitness' and 'performance' levels are getting lower on speedfan's SMART rating system too. LBA Written attribute is at 63h and Read is at 8Fh (raw) which appear as something to watch, along with a load of unrecognised attributes. I'm worried I've ruined it! Can you help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 -Did you use the correct firmware file? -You can try secure erasing the SSD with Parted Magic, But it may not work. -Try get it replaced by your seller, If your seller does not want to, Submit an RMA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 Was it showing up as 33.8 GB when you initially installed it, or did the size change occur after you attempted to update the firmware on the other drive? What's the size of the other drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In-Fluence Posted January 31, 2012 Author Share Posted January 31, 2012 No it was the right amount at 90Gb when first installed but performed poorly with AHCI drivers as well as SATA/IDE modes. The 2 drives I updated were both 750Gb which were both 'unraided' to prevent any issues updating them. I think this needs an RMA sadly as even in bios it's showing up as ~33gigs and I can't even adjust any higher using manual lba/block settings etc. Unless any more suggestions come to light? I guess now that SMART attributes are being affected I should RMA... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In-Fluence Posted January 31, 2012 Author Share Posted January 31, 2012 Ah, I sussed it out, must have inadvertently set the 'max size to 32gb' option, thanks for the help anyway guys. Performance is still poor though :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted February 1, 2012 Share Posted February 1, 2012 -Test the SSD, using ATTO -The benchmark scores should be around 250MB/S (SATAII). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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