chrishathaway Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 About a year ago I put together a new build and bought a Corsair Performance 3 Series 128GB SATA III SSD. Things were great, till I recently started noticing very slow boot up times, like 5 or 6 minutes. I tried out a few things, like switching the cable and port of the drive, running standard diagnostic tests, but nothing seemed to help. Then I ran ATTO and found this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2386855/ATTO-Screenshot.png I'm only getting 15 mb/s write speeds and less than 10 mb/s reads. I ran CrystalDiskInfo, and everything seemed to be in order: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2386855/CrystalDisk-Screenshot.png Am I missing something obvious here? It's not like I just need to adjust or upgrade something to get an extra 10% boost, I should be getting at least 20 times these numbers. Is my SSD just dying? Thank you ahead of time for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowbeard Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 How much space is used on the disk and how much free space is there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrishathaway Posted February 19, 2012 Author Share Posted February 19, 2012 It's only about half full: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2386855/space-screen.png Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhenry0302 Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Has there been any followup on this issue? I am experiencing very similar performance discrepancies with my Performance 3 128GB SSD as illustrated with CrystalDiskMark's results below. When I first installed the SSD, boot times were anywhere between 25-45 seconds. Now I am seeing at least 6-7 minutes to hit the desktop and another few minutes for services and resources to load into RAM. Note that my drive is about 50% full/free as well. Also note that over the last five months that I have been using this drive, it has crashed at least six times. Please advise. CORSAIR PERFORMANCE 3 SSD SATA III 128GB ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 © 2007-2010 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [sATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 6.779 MB/s Sequential Write : 10.080 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 6.937 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 9.956 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.218 MB/s [ 53.2 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.320 MB/s [ 78.1 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.225 MB/s [ 54.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.327 MB/s [ 79.8 IOPS] Test : 1000 MB [C: 38.1% (45.4/119.2 GB)] (x5) Date : 2012/05/29 14:51:28 OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64) Compare to WD3200AAJS (on SATA II Raid-0 Array) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 © 2007-2010 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [sATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 101.675 MB/s Sequential Write : 97.998 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 21.511 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 28.468 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.275 MB/s [ 67.0 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 1.947 MB/s [ 475.3 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 1.209 MB/s [ 295.2 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 2.003 MB/s [ 488.9 IOPS] Test : 1000 MB [D: 59.4% (354.0/596.2 GB)] (x5) Date : 2012/05/29 14:58:34 OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64) Thank you for your input, -jhenry0302 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted May 29, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted May 29, 2012 I would suggest you create an image of the drive with a program like Accronis and then use Parted Magic to secure erase the drive then quick format it with a 4096 Allocation added as a second drive then run ATTO on the drive to see if can restore the performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhenry0302 Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Thank you so much for the quick response, I am reading that Partition Magic is not natively supported in a Windows 7 x64 environment. Will I be able to accomplish my task if I run it in compatibility mode, or do you have any other suggestions for workable software to format my drive as per your suggestions above? Thank you, -jhenry0302 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhenry0302 Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Oh! My apologies. You said Parted Magic, not Partition Magic. I will try the method you suggest and will post the results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 I'm not too familiar with the SMART data from that drive series/controller. Are there any other values from CrystalDiskInfo that you are not showing? It surprises me there is no indication of lifetime writes to host. That would indicate to us if the drive is dying or not. You can try SSDLife and see if that reads the writes to host. I would try the secure erase anyway and see if the performance is restored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhenry0302 Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 @Synbios I did include everything that CrystalDiskInfo generated. Here is what SSDLife provided before the secure erase procedure. http://www.jeremiahhenry.com/_images/ssdlife_v1.png http://www.jeremiahhenry.com/_images/ssdlife_smart_v1.png I will post additional results after the secure erase procedure. Cheers, -jhenry0302 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhenry0302 Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Well, the procedure has been completed, and the data is in. CrystalDiskMark's benchmark says it all. The secure erase procedure absolutely worked. CORSAIR PERFORMANCE 3 SSD SATA III 128GB after secure erase ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 © 2007-2010 hiyohiyo Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [sATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s] Sequential Read : 334.848 MB/s Sequential Write : 200.646 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 251.198 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 186.844 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 14.716 MB/s [ 3592.8 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 33.994 MB/s [ 8299.3 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 78.119 MB/s [ 19071.9 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 59.223 MB/s [ 14458.8 IOPS] Test : 1000 MB [C: 38.8% (46.2/119.2 GB)] (x5) Date : 2012/05/29 23:43:24 OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64) ___ So is this something that SSD owners should expect to have to do as routine maintenance? Thank you both Synbios and RAM GUY; I hope others will be able to benefit from this as much as I have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrishathaway Posted May 30, 2012 Author Share Posted May 30, 2012 Well, I guess I'll have to try it now... I was planning on sending back in my SSD, but this sounds like a good option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Yes it appears that your drive is virtually not reporting any SMART data. I don't know if it is because of that model or if you have SMART disabled in your BIOS. Anyway I'm glad you got the performance back. I would check some of the guides for performance on these forums to delay the next time you have to do a secure erase. For example, make sure TRIM is enabled (it probably is but no harm in checking). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrishathaway Posted May 31, 2012 Author Share Posted May 31, 2012 So, I used Parted Magic to secure Erase my SSD last night, but after it was all finished, it asked me to Initialize the Disk, and when I tried to do that, I get the following error: "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error" Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richardd43 Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 Give diskpart a try, it is already installed on your computer. Run diskpart.exe 1 list disk 2 select disk x with x being the number given for your ssd 3 clean (this destroys all partition/volume data on the disk) 4 create partition primary align=1024 5 active 6 format fs=ntfs quick 7 exit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrishathaway Posted June 1, 2012 Author Share Posted June 1, 2012 After step 4, I get the following DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. See the System Event Log for more information. The System Event Log says: VDS fails to write boot code on a disk during clean operation. Error code: 8007045D@02070008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted June 2, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted June 2, 2012 I would just use Windows 7 Disk Manager to create and format the partition as a second drive then just select 4096 Allocation. Windows 7 will detect it is an SSD and format it properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrishathaway Posted June 5, 2012 Author Share Posted June 5, 2012 As soon as I open the Disk Manager, I get the following: So I click okay, and the following error comes up: It doesn't let me create any partitions after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Try a different SATA data cable/motherboard port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted June 6, 2012 Corsair Employee Share Posted June 6, 2012 And if that continues then please use the link on the left and request an RMA and we can replace it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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