PNutts Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 For fun I captured benchmark performance results at 4K allocation and then after an increase to 32K allocation. Why? I'm not sure other than "I can". To be honest it was more of a test to potentially restore the latest backup if I accidently/intentionally erased the disk. Once I start poking around anything goes. Acronis and Carbonite are my friends. Anyway, attached are benchmarks before and after. Again, I have no expectations for analysis but welcome all comments including the confirmation I wasted my time. :biggrin: Also, sorry for the craptacular "screen shots". I didn't intend to post the results and had only printed them for reference, but I also think it's kind of funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citabria Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 From the specs of the ssd, it appears something is not right with your setup. The read and writes appear too slow. Have you read the faq's or searched the forums about the X series? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joytech22 Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 citabria is definately right, your SSD speeds are very low. 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 erase the drive with Parted Magic and then quick format it with 32k Allocation and test it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNutts Posted December 22, 2009 Author Share Posted December 22, 2009 Thx for the feedback. I agree the numbers are low and that was the motivation for my partial disk tuning. Based on the advice in this forum I had a Parted Magic CD burned and ready to go in case the allocation adjustment went south and I had to recover from scratch. When I'm able to do the erase I'll post back with the new benchmarks. I expect after doing so the numbers will be spectacular like everyone else's! 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 NP Please let us know if you have any more questions and how it turns out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNutts Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 Thx. I've learned a lot here and I have a long way to go... I just stuffed everything into a new case and took advantage of some of its built in cable management. I'm going to be lazy and see if I can do the tasks without using a USB adapter. Also, I've got a clean Windows 7 install so I have the 100MB boot partition. I've done a tiny bit of research and it sounds like I'll be OK recreating both and doing the format/restore. If the partition is indeed just for booting I may leave it alone unless anyone has a horror story they want to share. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted December 23, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted December 23, 2009 NP Please keep us updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PNutts Posted December 26, 2009 Author Share Posted December 26, 2009 Wow. It's hard time of year to get quality keyboard time, not to mention a new case and failed power supply. BTW: If you get the urge to buy a Xion power supply I recommend that you choose a company with a good RMA policy. My SSD has two partitions: The Windows7 hidden boot partition and the Windows7 partition. I used a Parted Magic CD to delete and recreate the partitions and format them NTFS (GParted). In Acronis I restored the entire drive (2 partitions) instead of retoring files. I then ran the benchmark utilities (see attached screenshots). It looks like there was a marginal increase... I remember seeing a great set of screenshots for this process and will continue looking for them. My concern is that Acronis deleted and recreated the partitions. The allocation stayed at 32K so it may be a moot point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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