Stuza Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Hey Guys i've installed my Corsair Force GT 240GB and can't get it to register above 100MB/S write speed with Novabench. I've tried it on a Transcend PDC3 (Sata 3) and the internal Marvel cards (both set to AHCI and SATA 3 in BIOS where applicable) on SATA 3 ports. I guess I have a few questions: Is Novabench sufficient or is it out of date/not suitable?Can you recommend a Benchmarking tool?Is it possible it's also taking into account my spinning disks in the test *I'm only pointing the test at the GT drive?Are there any possible drivers I need for the GT? *Mobo and Transcend are up to date? Info from Toolbox 1.0 Model Number - Corsair Force GT SCSI Fixed Disk Serial Number - 1309791300009815002E Firmware Version - 5.06 Drive Size - 240gb ATA Version - ACS2 Revision 3 (ATA8-ACS) Features - LBA, DMA TRIM, SMART, Security, NCQ, APM Temperature - 28 C Total Host Reads - 203 GB Total Host Writes -171 GB System specs were filled in as part of forum profile. Thanks in advance!!! Edit: I *THINK* I've made the registry changes in Windows to turn on AHCI and upon a reboot it also said it was installing drivers but, I'm not 100% sure they are being used for THIS drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 1. Corsair does not use Novabench to benchmark their drives. 2. Run a ATTO benchmark and post a screenshot. Advertised speeds for your drive. Max Sequential R/W (ATTO) 555 MB/s sequential read — 525 MB/s sequential write Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuza Posted May 31, 2013 Author Share Posted May 31, 2013 See attached. Read speed is OK but Write speed is half.disk.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incriminated Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Im confused by the "Transcend" You motherboard has a secondary Marvell (6Gbps) and a primary: Intel® ICH10R controller: 6 x SATA 3Gb/s Can you please verify you installed marvell's latest SATA-Controller driver and/or provide a ASSSD screenshot to make us check your driver-name :): P.S.: why dont you just attach images.jpg and insert them as image. That way we can instantly see your pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuza Posted May 31, 2013 Author Share Posted May 31, 2013 Im confused by the "Transcend" You motherboard has a secondary Marvell (6Gbps) and a primary: Intel® ICH10R controller: 6 x SATA 3Gb/s Can you please verify you installed marvell's latest SATA-Controller driver and/or provide a ASSSD screenshot to make us check your driver-name :): P.S.: why dont you just attach images.jpg and insert them as image. That way we can instantly see your pics. 1 - it was spare and the onboard wasn't performing so I tried the SPARE transcend that I had. 2 - I did attach a report FROM the program itself (See the zip file which is a direct output from the program) 3 - don't ask me why "Controlled by" is blank. It is blank during program startup, execution and completion - when using either controller edit: and yes, I was plugged in to the Marvel ports when using onboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incriminated Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 1. You will only be able to max out speeds for your system through ther marvel-controler with latest drivers. 2. It was ATTO, i asked you to please provide an ASSSD-screenshot as an image (please not again as a zip, use the Print key, paste in MSPAINT and cut the window-area out, paste it again and crop the image fanatic, than save as jpg). 3. Not of relevance, please ensure benching Force GT plugged in port 1 of the Marvell-Controller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuza Posted May 31, 2013 Author Share Posted May 31, 2013 1 - Plugged in (and nothing in slot 2) in to Port 1 2 - Sorry my bad, must have done something stupid - well was only one letter of the alphabet out! - anyway, thanks for your patience! 3 - Attached bitmap. Showing pretty much the same results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incriminated Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 BTW: If you copy the link to your attachment, then in your post click on the yellow picture frame-button (the one with the mountain and the sun) and paste that link in, you directly show that pictures. Tops my Force 3 on AMD-SATA3-6Ggps tremendously (yours is far better) and Im really satisfied with mine. Seq read/write is what you most likely do in real-life. Still it's synthetical and real-transfers will be lower, due to that you need a source/target to read/write as fast. Under "Tools > Copy-Benchmark" you will find some synthetical Seq-Copy tests to evalute speed for Iso/Game/App-to-RAM what show the best what your SSD is capable of (beside ultra-fast-booting your pc). Even other systems with better Controller ONLY get better ATTO-benchmark results what is ONLY synthetic data for testing that is very highly compressable. Im very sure, that when you go to another mashine with AMD or INTEL controller your ATTO results will be better. Despite that the "feeling" and measures for real-life matter will absolutely be the same. I think your drive is really fine and ATTO shows odd because of the "mid-range" Northbridge/Marvell-Controller. I believe attaching spare controllers are not able to do it better on that mashine because they are linkes through the same Northbridge. P.S.: My sig-pic is NOT the SSD, its a propriety ram-cache software, when I turn it off it looks like this :D: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuza Posted May 31, 2013 Author Share Posted May 31, 2013 Thank you for your advice! So it appears i'm aiming for published speeds which I'll never achieve in real life situations. Understood. I always go for onboard for the very same reasons you say, it's direct to memory rather than any extra bridge (PCI) in the middle. I must admit, it didn't seem slow when doing "stuff" but I was concerned with the speed but.... guess thats a closed issue now. Thank you again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incriminated Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 The best benchmark IMHO is to create ram-disk, pick a Video an ISO and a Game-Folder of a size of your likeness and copy it from SSD to RAM-Drive to measure reads and copy it back from RAM-Drive to SSD to measure writes. Yup the 3rd gen. SF (Force 3) are @ ~100MB/s seq-write.., i was mad first day i saw that wanting 505MB/s like the specs advertised ;P Even the best SSD (Vector256/840pro) doesnt beat 500MB/s in any task except ATTO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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