wlfng2005 Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Hello, I just bought a new Corsair Force F-80 and put it in my laptop after I yanked out the OEM HDD (seagate 500GB 7200RPM) I did a clean windows 7 ultimate 64bit install with proper drivers and all. I am installing this F80 to my laptop-which is a Dell Studio XPS 1645. Here is the specs of my system: Intel core i7 720QM (1.6Ghz) 4GB DDR3 1333MHz RAM ATI radeon 5730 video card up-to-date BIOS intel PM55 chipset (up-to-date) Yet I am still getting Minimum read=96MB/s, Maximum read=174mb/s and average read = 160mb/s (please see attachment--I used HD tune pro 4.6 to do the benchmark). I also ran a test using Windows 7's WEI and got a score of 5.9, this is unacceptable because my old HDD (seagate 500GB 7200RPM) already achieves this score and it is not acceptable for an ssd to get the same score. The device was advertised to run upto 285MB/sec read and 275MB/sec write. Though the term "up to" is there, but I still think that the difference should not be that huge (>100MB/s). My system enables AHCI by default, and I also turned on TRIM support via CMD. By the way, my F80 has firmware of 1.1, I am unable to upgrade it to 1.1a since I do not have the cable to use the F80 as 2nd drive. Please let me know if my F80 is defective or not. I am located in San Jose, CA, so hopefully this issue can be resolved in a timely manner? I hope to optimize my drive and get it to perform at its intended speed and performance. Thank you for reading, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Test with ATTO. Also, don't worry about upgrading the firmware. FIRMWARE 1.1 CANNOT BE UPDATED USING THIS TOOL . Force Series firmware 1.1 is the same as the 1.1A firmware on Force Series drives that we are currently shipping. The only difference is that Firmware 1.1 was done at the factory and firmware 1.1a was completed with this utility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlfng2005 Posted October 31, 2010 Author Share Posted October 31, 2010 Wired: I went ahead and do 2 more benchmark(Atto and crystalDisk) and 1 info retrieving (please see attachments) I notice the "health" indicator shows that my drive is 91% in good health, shouldn't this number be close to 100% since I just bought it ? Please advise and let me know how I can get my drive to perform at maximum speed, wlfng2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heintz.G Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 First don't worry about the health report there is a bug in the firmware that doesn't report correctly. Your atto scores look spot on for the drive you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burebista Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 This is my brand new F80 with latest RST drivers and I'm VERY happy with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 ATTO scores look just fine. You're good to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlfng2005 Posted October 31, 2010 Author Share Posted October 31, 2010 thank you for the help/comment everyone, I appreciate you all as my main goal was to find out if the device is defective or not. Also, does anyone know any tool/program that can check to see if my F80 has any bad block/sector in it or not? Thanks in advance! you guys rock! p/s: funny, I just ran the WEI again and got a score of 7.7! wow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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