Force 3 with no issue?

has anyone here installed a force 3 drive as the primary boot OS drive and not had BSOD's is there anyone that has NO problems ?? seems ALL i find is negative stuff > i just bought one so im really hoping someone can change what ive read.

Mine is running great! I had a few BSODs with the old 1.2 firmware, but issues were solved finally with 1.3.3.

 

seems ALL i find is negative stuff

 

Well, this is a Technical Support Forum, people will most likely post when they have issues, and not when everything is running fine.

 

Btw: it could be helpful to know your system specs, you can add them in User CP.

I dont want to be negative everytime, but so far the only one with no problems is Madnisman and Corsair.

Don`t take me wrong Madnisman i`m happy for you :) you have the golden one.

in another post someone wrote -- Also keep in mind that Marvell cannot deliver the full speed of the drives.

 

what motherboard can i get that doesnt have marvell that is either 1155/1366 format ? thanks.

 

so sick and tired of buying nice boards and them having restrictions - such crap :eek:

I dont want to be negative everytime, but so far the only one with no problems is Madnisman and Corsair.

Don`t take me wrong Madnisman i`m happy for you :) you have the golden one.

 

Wrong. :roll:

what motherboard can i get that doesnt have marvell that is either 1155/1366 format ?

 

I would recommend 1155 mobo with P67 or Z68 chipset - besides the Marvell controller both chipsets support native Intel SATA3 controller which is what you want for full SATA3 performance.

1.3.3 has fixed all of my issues. System is 100% rock solid.

Yes I have also had no problems since firmware 1.3.3. I did have issues upgrading but following the FAQ's got around that. The PC being used is a Samsung Netbook N130. Completely transforms the machine.

I have problem with the system running overnight. Performance wise it is great.

i like to leave my pc on ALL the time - this sounds bad? i already have power saving disabled in windows options so stuf "should be on all the time"

I dont want to be negative everytime, but so far the only one with no problems is Madnisman and Corsair.

Don`t take me wrong Madnisman i`m happy for you :) you have the golden one.

 

So Wrong i used a force 3 in my x58 system for 6 months i brought a 2nd force 3 when i upgraded to x79 and i've been running them in RAID0 for a month now.

i like to leave my pc on ALL the time - this sounds bad?

 

No, this should work very well. After applying the 1.3.3 firmware, I wanted to verify that issues are solved and left the pc on for 14 days and nights - never had any issues in this time.

just wanted to add soem positivity!! last night I installed / replace my c:\ 1.5tb seagate with a force series 3 180gb ssd - plugged into an sata2 port - almost maxed the port speed out with atto benchmark program :) got img to prove it - works great - no errors or BSOD so far - left it on over night in sleep mode wokeup no problem - and that was when i left it to install starcraft II :) so far so good made a backup today of the image in case anything should go wrong :) HOORAY FOR success - (drive purchased came with 1.3.3 on it )

been about a week so far on a clean install - havent got one BSOD yet :)

I installed mine the day it came in the mail. Friday the 13, January 2012. Didn't realize it was "That day". LOL

Anyway, its been 4 days and no problems. Have moved users folders to HDD, installed STEAM and video drivers etc. so far runs like a champ.

This is replacing a failed RMA'ed 115GB SATA 2.

Hope it lasts. Lots of extra work. If this one dies I will charge Corsair for my time.

I have a number of Corsair drives to include a 120G F3 and have not had a problem with any of them.

 

The computer I am on right now has 3 of the older 40G drives in raid 0 and they have worked from day 1.

0 issues after 2 weeks of use.

I installed corsair force 3 120GB ssd 45 days ago on sata2 mobo,win 7 sp1 x64. The ssd still has FW 1.3.2. Atto benchmarks gave R/W 275/250 GB/s as specified. This ssd is working flawlessly since install. No bsod/freeze.

I've had my 60gb Force3 installed as my primary drive for 3 weeks now with the system getting plenty of use encoding/editing video. Zero issues so far.

My first SSD - This post describes the observations so far. My eventual goal to to end up with the Cosair as my boot device, preferably running on ESATA III, with my Caviar black 1TB sata 6 as data storage. This is stage I of the project migration. I expect I may need help and/or advice either now or along the way.

 

First and pnly problem so far: There was no way to easily mount the corsair in the drive tray of mu computer, but was able to use one of my ESATA enclosures.

Plugged it into the running computer: PNP message popped up with the correct ID of the device (Hot plug worked) with the obligatory installing device drivers message.

Computer recognized it, after inilization and formatting with Acronis (disk manager would also have worked) I had another external drive of 111 GB

 

Ran a couple of rudementary"use tests"

 

1) Straight Copy 424 GB mixed file/folders from Data partition on Boot Drive (6.0 Gb/s) to ESATA2 3.0 Gb/s - WD2001FASS 3.0 Gb/s

Speed

started @ ~45 Mb/sec - reached ~78 Mb/sec at end (This is about the max typically attained transferring between these 2 drives)

 

2) Straight copy 90 GB from same source (Boot Data Partition) to Corsair SSD

Started @ 34 Mb/s reached 97 Mb/s at end

 

2a) Copied back

Started @ 60Mb/s - reached 70 Mb/s at end

 

Observations

 

1) It was observed that the transfer slowed while Movie clips (AVI) were being transferred

2) HD to SSD was slower that the converse.

3) Ready Boost light only occasionally showed activity during transfers

 

Other tests

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All the drives except the SSD were set to use no page file. Several sizes of page file were tested on the SSD, about 25000Mb appeared to be the best for this computer.

The boot time into windows and shutdown was somewhat faster.using the SSD for the page file than using the defaults.

Some of the applications loaded a lot quicker, others not so much. But overall the computer became much "quicker".

Populating the task bar was very slow – I suspect leaving some cache on the boot drive is needed.

 

Next step. (have to wait for a 2 port SATAIII card to arrive).-

"StarTech.com 2 Port SATA 6 Gbps PCI Express eSATA Controller Card (PEXESAT32)"

I bought this card because I wanted port multiplier capabilities, which the onboard SATA controllers do not.

I may try the Corsair external drive on this controller/card (But I think it has a Marvel controller so who knows) Otherwise I will leave the "ECorsair" (new technical term) on the Intel ports on the MOBO.

 

So Far, so Good.

 

Any comments, warnings, or other advice will be appreciated.

 

Cheers

'Warren

I've had a Force 3 60GB for about 4 months now. Apart from a few problems when I first built my system, since updating the firmware, I've had very few problems.