Results look right ?

[mshack102]

I RMA'd my P128 and just got it back today. I asked for a firmware update, but they sent a new drive. I tried to check the firmware with CrystalDiskInfo, but it reports firmware 0956 , which doesn't even exist.

 

Anyway, I installed the drive on my current system, just as a storage drive to test and check firmware. I ran ATTO on my current Raid system, comprising of 4 1TB WD in Raid 0/1 , and then on the P-128 , no OS installed or any data.

 

The results look very poor imo. My specs are under my name above. I have the latest bios for my MB, and all the latest drivers for my controllers.....I think. Here are the results.

 

This is the ATTO results of the P-128 taken running from my Raid, using the SSD as storage.

 

http://nitrografixx.com/ssd.png

 

 

This is the results of my current 4HDD Raid 0/1

 

http://nitrografixx.com/raid.png

 

 

What do you make of it ? TIA

[Synbios]

I don't know much about the P series but they do look a little slow. Why did you get a Performance series for your desktop?

 

You should use CrystalDiskInfo to check the firmware revision.

 

Even though the HDD in RAID has better sustained transfer rates their random seek times and random transfer rates are still going to be worse than an SSD. ATTO completely blinds those results because it uses sequential reads and writes for benchmarking. The HDD may be better for storage especially if you're transferring huge files and the SSD may be better for OS. Just my two cents, it's all about preference as to where you put the SSD in your system (OS vs. storage)

[RAM GUY]

The tested performance of our Performance series SSD should be about 220 MB/s sequential read and 180 MB/s sequential write. What O.S. are you using and what did you set the allocation size to when you formatted the drive? And what controller on the MB is it connected to?

[mshack102]

The tested performance of our Performance series SSD should be about 220 MB/s sequential read and 180 MB/s sequential write. What O.S. are you using and what did you set the allocation size to when you formatted the drive? And what controller on the MB is it connected to?

 

 

Windows 7 64bit OS

I formatted the SSD under windows using the default setting. The options were

512 bytes

1028 bytes

2048 bytes

4096 bytes

8192 bytes

16 kilobytes

32 kilobytes

64 kilobytes

 

Which one should I choose, if not default ?

 

I have the SSD connected to Port 0 - the top slot of the Orange in this image

http://media.bestofmicro.com/,7-1-192061-3.jpg

 

I don't know if that is the JMB322 or Intel ICH10R to be honest.

[Synbios]

The orange port is the Jmicron on the Asus boards usually. It is usually used for EZ-RAID or something like that.

 

The red one is probably the ICH10R but you should check with your motherboard manual or diagram to make sure. The ICH10R will definitely have better performance even if the Jmicron is SATA III since the P series is a SATA II drive.

 

4k allocation is correct.

[mshack102]

The orange port is the Jmicron on the Asus boards usually. It is usually used for EZ-RAID or something like that.

 

The red one is probably the ICH10R but you should check with your motherboard manual or diagram to make sure. The ICH10R will definitely have better performance even if the Jmicron is SATA III since the P series is a SATA II drive.

 

4k allocation is correct.

 

 

placed the SSD on the ICH10R and my read and write speeds nearly doubled. Thanks ;)

[Synbios]

placed the SSD on the ICH10R and my read and write speeds nearly doubled. Thanks ;)

 

That's awesome, glad it worked. ;):