fabzster Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Hi I just purchased the above mention drive, I installed WIN 8 on it and then decided to go back to WIN 7. when installing WIN7 I decided to format from within the WIN 7 setup. Everything is up and running, but When using ATTO my speeds dont seem to be on par with what the drive is capable of. I was getting around 250 Mb/sec Write and 350 Mb/sec Read using the following settings: Transfer Size: 1024.0Overlapped I/OQue Depth: 4Total Length: 256 Mb My motherboard is a Gigabyte Z68XP-UD4 with the Latest F6 BIOS, the drive is plugged into one of the SATA3 GSATA ports and AHCI has been set on this controller before WIN 7 Install. I would love to know what to check or try to get this drive to perform like it should, as currently I am not really that impressed with it and I paid a premium for it. Is there also a way to verify that the drive is using SATA3 (I would suppose it is indicated in the speed) ? and ACHI is functioning properly? What should I do? I would really appreciate the assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Is it in one of the Intel SATA III ports? SATA3_0, SATA3_1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabzster Posted September 21, 2012 Author Share Posted September 21, 2012 Many thanks for the reply, Nope. I think that these GSATA3_6 and GSATA3_7 ports are the Marvell 88SE9172 ports The Intel ones are the SATA3_0 and SATA3_1 I have added a pic :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I think Wired means is the SSD plugged into the Intel SATA III 6.0Gb/s SATA Port? Which is labelled SATA3_0 and SATA3_1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabzster Posted September 21, 2012 Author Share Posted September 21, 2012 LOL Yeah thats what I was replying to... the answer is no its plugged into the marvell SATA controller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Plug the drive into the Intel SATA III 6.0Gb/s SATA port. This should give you the performance you want to see and reliability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabzster Posted September 21, 2012 Author Share Posted September 21, 2012 Kewl, will give it a bash and let u guy's know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 24, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted September 24, 2012 We test all our SSDs on an Intel Controller. The Marvell Controllers are usually slower than the native controller so wipe the drive clean, and run your tests again on the Intel port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..AlLkNoWinG.. Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 Ram Guy is correct. Marvell, ASMedia controllers give a much lower performance #'s vs. Intel Chipset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mik101 Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 Even on the Intel controller the 120GB GTX I have shows the same quirk at various queue depths, and it's always with 1024kb transfer sizes, all the ones around it are fine. It makes for some interesting ATTO graphs on occasion. I suspect the firmware just isn't optimized for that transfer size. (Just like those below 4K) Edit: On the new M310 firmware 1024kb transfers are fixed for me. Use the new SSD Tool to update your drives firmware and give it another try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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