OCZ Agility 4 128 GB speed??

Adeks · *Last edited by Adeks; 07-30-2012 at 23:03.*

Hello i test my SDD and i have strange results:

Its connect as AHCI to SATA 6GB/s TRIM enabled SSD updated to 1.5 firemware my motherboard is ASUS P8P67 LE

So it is good??

MfA · **Memory**: 4GB DDR2 1000MHz 5-5-5-15

looks like you have plugged your ssd into a third party sata3 controller (marvell or asmedia that kind of sh#t), make sure it's hooked intel port.. some drives needs couple of reallocations to settle in in first few days of usage.. loading the initial data on the drive may cause a couple of bad blocks to appear.. Your drive must have escaped the factory before it's bad blocks where fully found..

Adeks · 07-30-2012, 23:52 | posts: 30

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Originally Posted by MfA

looks like you have plugged your ssd into a third party sata3 controller (marvell or asmedia that kind of sh#t), make sure it's hooked intel port..

Its pluged in to gray port not marvell

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Originally Posted by MfA

some drives needs couple of reallocations to settle in in first few days of usage.. loading the initial data on the drive may cause a couple of bad blocks to appear.. Your drive must have escaped the factory before it's bad blocks where fully found..

So RMA it??

clawhamer · 07-31-2012, 01:10 | posts: 1,545 | Location: eastcoast.ca

I’m not really sure about the HD Tune Pro Health read out, but it looks like it may need an update before it can be properly read the Agility 4 status.

There may not be anything wrong with the drive so I wouldn’t RMA it just yet. Give us some more information and I’m sure someone on here can help sort it for you.

When you first setup the drive, was it cloned or fresh install?
Does your alignment check out OK?
What storage driver are you using?

Brendruis · 07-31-2012, 04:27 | posts: 1,242 | Location: Melbourne, FL

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Originally Posted by Adeks

So it is good??

Doesn't look good. Secure erase using a program like Parted Magic and then fresh install.. run ATTO then would be interesting to see your results.

Adeks · 07-31-2012, 10:41 | posts: 30

this is read from ocz toolbox :

SMART READ DATA

Revision: 18
Attributes List
1: SSD Raw Read Error Rate 6
3: SSD Spin Up Time 0
4: SSD Start Stop Count 0
5: SSD Reallocated Sector Count 2
9: SSD Power-On Hours 44
12: SSD Power Cycle Count 24
232: SSD Total Count of Write Sectors 46233
233: SSD Remaining Life (%) 100

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Originally Posted by clawhamer

When you first setup the drive, was it cloned or fresh install?
Does your alignment check out OK?
What storage driver are you using?

Fresh install W7 x64 was from beginning on this SSD and i use now only this storage. Intel Rapid Storage driver didnt help with anything..

Adeks · 07-31-2012, 11:39 | posts: 30

And second benchmark..

Pill Monster · 07-31-2012, 12:00 | posts: 20,487 | Location: NZ

^That looks better.

The strange HDTune score may be to do with the firmware, Hilbert noticed something similar here:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/ocz-ve...15-firmware/12

Above Vertex 4 1.5 Firmware a dip in the 256 / 512 ranges.

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We tried this test multiple times even after a secure erase this would show up again and again.
Overall though we reach higher peak performance though moving from the 450MB/sec range into the 500 Mb/sec ranges.