pindakoek Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Hi, I bought a X-32 just a few weeks ago and i already did a secure-erase with hdparm but the testresults with crystaldiskmark are still not good. And if i try to switch in the motherboards bios to AHCI my computer crashes before it comes onto the logon screen. Sorry for my bad english. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoek Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 Someone who knows how to resolve this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athar Posted December 21, 2009 Share Posted December 21, 2009 EDIT: Do what RAM GUY say in the next post, If no changes: Did you disable the cache write for yours SSD? if yes, re-enable it, and test again, if not, disable it and test again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 21, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 21, 2009 Please run ATTO Disk Bench and post the results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoek Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 Here are the results of the ATTO benchmark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 21, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 21, 2009 I would suggest you image the drive to another drive then wipe it with Gparted or parted Magic and then Quick format it with 32k Allocation and test it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoek Posted December 21, 2009 Author Share Posted December 21, 2009 okey i'll try that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wagnard Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 If you change the option in the bios to AHCI you have to reinstall windows. You cannot switch from ide to AHCI or vice-versa. It require a complete re-install. That is why you crash with AHCI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoek Posted December 22, 2009 Author Share Posted December 22, 2009 does ahci-mode produce much performance profit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoek Posted December 22, 2009 Author Share Posted December 22, 2009 @ RAMGUY What to do with the system reserved partition? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athar Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 For me, this partition (100Mb) is on my raid0 of SSD... and I have some good benchmarks. But, if I disable the "enable write cache", I lost all the perf in write, if I re-enable, the perf is greater (look my post (The erase has permit to gain some speed, but not very much better)). EDIT: Look that post too: About slow write perf too, like me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 22, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 22, 2009 There is little difference in AHCI Mode and IDE mode and AHCI will have some advantages. However the controller the MB is using will really be the biggest factor in any performance gains if any. pindakoek, I am not sure what you are asking about the reserved partition can you be more specific. And did you get the performance back up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoek Posted December 22, 2009 Author Share Posted December 22, 2009 I'm going to plan a reinstall because of ahci-mode but if I delete the partition on my ssd with gparted and I create a new one with gparted(because I need to format it with 32k allocation) there's no system reserved partition, how am I going to do this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 22, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 22, 2009 I would image the Boot drive to another Drive and use that drive to boot the system then you just use disk manager create and format the partition with 32 K allocation and test the performance. The you can just image it back with Accronis Disk Image or if you want to do a fresh install just delete the partition and Windows 7 will create it automatically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boerenlater Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Actually you can change within Windows from IDE to AHCI. http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;922976&x=5&y=8 Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 322756 How to back up and restore the registry in Windows To resolve this issue, enable the AHCI driver in the registry before you change the SATA mode of the boot drive. To do this, follow these steps: Exit all Windows-based programs. Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER. If you receive the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue. Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci In the right pane, right-click Start in the Name column, and then click Modify. In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK. On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor. After that, reboot, go into your bios and turn AHCI on. Windows asks for new drivers to install, after that reboot. And you´re done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoek Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 thank you, i'll try that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boerenlater Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 Keep us posted Koekje ::pirate:: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sehe Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Actually you can change within Windows from IDE to AHCI. http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;922976&x=5&y=8 Now _that_ is useful info! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 24, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 24, 2009 I think this whole thread is loaded with useful information if you take it all in the right context. But please let us know how you make out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoek Posted December 24, 2009 Author Share Posted December 24, 2009 The AHCI-thing worked:biggrin: And in one of the following days I am going to image my ssd to my raptor and then format the ssd with 32k allocation. Does someone knows a good and easy program to image my ssd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 24, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 24, 2009 I would suggest Acconis Disk Image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoek Posted December 25, 2009 Author Share Posted December 25, 2009 With 32k you mean 32kb right? And someone in this topic said to turn off and on the cache, how do I do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoek Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 I'm a bit disappointed now, I tried many things and it still doesn't work like it should must work. I spend so much money for a not good working 32 gb ssd.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoek Posted December 27, 2009 Author Share Posted December 27, 2009 and now my ssd is frozen, a week ago it wasn't.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoek Posted December 28, 2009 Author Share Posted December 28, 2009 This is what I get with 4 kb allocation, at 16kb or higher I can't use the partition to install windows, the install denies it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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