Slafes Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Got a 60 gig Corsair Nova read: 270MB / s write 240MB / s, on a Gigabyte p67A-UD3-B3 I have a test done with AS SSD as the system is not moving forward, constantly waiting at typing and surfing and very slow ... Seq: 227MB / s read, 30.85 MB / s write 4k: 10.91 MB / s read, 3.70 MB / s write The other tests I skipped because it would take more than 5 hours. AHCI used in the bios, with a clean install of windows it runs very smoothly. After a few days it ran very slow. Because I thought windows was broken I had done a fresh install again but again the same results after a few days. I have used SSD tweaker and have read every possible course on setting up an SSD but can't find the problem. The disc also has 20 gig free space I've already changed from SATA3 to SATA2. There is no new firmware available. Does anyone have an idea, or else it goes out of the system and buy me a raptor or something because this is not working for me. Kind regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 Test with ATTO, as that's how they got the rated benchmarks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slafes Posted December 28, 2011 Author Share Posted December 28, 2011 Tested it with atto... Write speed about 190 MB/s and read about 270 MB/s. Still does not explain why my system is so slow and browsing showing lot's of hickups... When I type characters appaer seconds after... New browser screens take 10 seconds to open... Same system with a normal HD works fine. Second question, why are the AS SSD results so low and the ATTO results high? Different type of testing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mocchan Posted December 28, 2011 Share Posted December 28, 2011 I'm having the same problem. Bought this SSD to use as a boot drive...but well, bad idea. Windows updates takes AGES (lousy 200mb download took 5 hours last night), issues with multitasking, and well everything else Slafes has said. The read speeds are decent, but the write speeds are pathetic. Copying a file on my SSD to another folder ON the SSD took 1 hour (1 gig file). I think I'll end up using this SSD as a storage drive for games or something...Since I live 7 hours away from the place I bought it. --I've tried Parted Magic, and everything else people have recommended as I've looked EVERYWHERE for a solution for this POS drive, but so far nothing. I'm open to anymore recommendations, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted December 30, 2011 Share Posted December 30, 2011 -Post a screenshot of ATTO. ATTO uses incompressible. AS SSD uses compressible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mocchan Posted January 6, 2012 Share Posted January 6, 2012 Sorry for the late reply, and Happy New Years to everyone. http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc370/wakaranai1432/ATTO.png These benchmarks are looking more like the advertised speeds. Though, I'm still a bit confused on why this SSD performs so poorly as an OS drive. I've now resorted to using this SSD for my games, and works perfectly for that task. However, I was looking forward to using this as a OS drive for better experience within windows. Has anyone figured out a solution? Or am I doomed with this SSD and better off exchanging for another SSD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ugnius40 Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Hi, My 2 pence: I have lived with Nova 2 as my system drive for several months now, I now regret I've spent money on this. It has been no improvement in speed over convantional drive, as time passes my system gets slower and slower. I'm not sure what ATTO disk benchmark displays but this drive is failing real life test. There has not been much info from Corsair about particular drive, no firmware updates or any solution to make it usable. It seems to me that Nova 2 drives are faulty in design, but nobody wants to admit that. I'm planing to get another ssd of different brand and sell this Corsair product for cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mocchan Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 Hi, My 2 pence: I have lived with Nova 2 as my system drive for several months now, I now regret I've spent money on this. It has been no improvement in speed over convantional drive, as time passes my system gets slower and slower. I'm not sure what ATTO disk benchmark displays but this drive is failing real life test. There has not been much info from Corsair about particular drive, no firmware updates or any solution to make it usable. It seems to me that Nova 2 drives are faulty in design, but nobody wants to admit that. I'm planing to get another ssd of different brand and sell this Corsair product for cheap. Thanks for this post, I've been DYING to get at least some sort of response that would confirm my theory. Seems they don't want to answer questions or simply give a yes/no answer to the question "Will I need a new ssd or be stuck with this POS?". I'll most likely get another SSD from a different brand as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanutz94 Posted January 10, 2012 Share Posted January 10, 2012 You always have the option of an RMA. If thats what you want to do just use the link on the left side and request one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slafes Posted January 12, 2012 Author Share Posted January 12, 2012 Still the same over here, but why request an RMA? What will we or I get in return? Any official answers on this topic? Now I see I'm not the only one with identical problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlaydeRunner Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I just RMA'd my 60gb (that replaced another defective 32gb), for the same issue. Unfortunately it hasn't made any difference... I've heard this is a common issue with the Nova 60. And it seems like we're being ignored by Corsair on this issue.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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