I ran Crystal mark test and it showed following results: read write seq 415 409 512K 353 54 4K 31 38 4k qd32 33 59 I think those speeds are not how its supposed to be. My ssd is plugged in sata3 6gbps port. I have Asus b75 motherboard.
So I made a firmware upgrade and the results are now much better but its still not what I expected. Sequential Read : 449.261 MB/s Sequential Write : 441.878 MB/s Random Read 512KB : 380.792 MB/s Random Write 512KB : 345.703 MB/s Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 31.556 MB/s [ 7704.1 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 60.013 MB/s [ 14651.6 IOPS] Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 34.214 MB/s [ 8353.1 IOPS] Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 85.871 MB/s [ 20964.7 IOPS] Test : 1000 MB [C: 79.5% (185.0/232.8 GB)] (x5) Date : 2014/11/06 14:04:12 OS : Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64) My boot time went from 15 to 8 seconds. I wonder why my qd32 read so low is.
Also remember to run the Optimization ;-) my speed wass also abit low after update, but then i run Opti... Bingo 552/540
Scroll down here. http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/us/html/support/downloads.html Grab the software/guide
As long as you are running Win 7, 8 or 8-.1 you should NOT run any optimization. Check out the Restoration tool, after that everything is fine. If you cloned your system on to the SSD and you are running Win7, run the Performance Index thing from Win7, otherwise do nothing, just enjoy your SSD. Any so called optimization is just tweaking into the blue and is increasing your source of errors... You may check some power management settings like C-States, LPM and your driver. Beside that I do not recommend any tweaking.
