Very bad score in AS SSD. The disk feels slow too

You cant just switch ACHI on in the bios OS will not boot if it it was not installed with ACHI enabled you have to either do the ACHI switch in registry first or install the OS that way Same goes for IDE you cant switch between the 2 freely once installed

Nor are the Sata III on the X58 native Intel controller they where marvel i think and they where terrible last i checked, Sata II is native though.

Also if you have no problems with your SSD you should not change the firmware at that is my believe my 830 has never had Firmware update and i never had problems with it either.


AS SSD Benchmark 1.7.4739.38088
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Name: ATA SAMSUNG SSD 830 SCSI Disk Device
Firmware: 3B1Q
Controller: iaStorA
Offset: 1024 K - OK
Size: 119.24 GB
Date: 9/3/2014 2:26:43 PM
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Sequential:
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Read: 262.32 MB/s
Write: 226.14 MB/s
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4K:
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Read: 21.12 MB/s
Write: 58.51 MB/s
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4K-64Threads:
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Read: 172.26 MB/s
Write: 95.42 MB/s
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Access Times:
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Read: 0.098 ms
Write: 0.055 ms
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Score:
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Read: 220
Write: 177
Total: 515
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This the normal give or take for Sata II atlest for me anyway.

 

here's mine ( SATA III / Maximus VI hero c2 )

 

EXT0BB6Q is the latest firmware, i always install the latest firmware, never have issues with it.

As for those drivers, you can go to device manager, go to the storage controller, drivers then use the have disk option. Browse to the folder called AHCI 64/32bit.

Alternatively, just run the setup program.

 

Marvell SE9128 is my sata III
ICH10R is my sata II
Based on what you have said and this, Ill try out my sata II.
But in my bios I dont any setting for ACHI for my sataII
Only sataIII has the option.

 

Dont need to set anything in the bios, intel supports it regardless. Your benchmark from above shows storahci driver being used.

 

No matter what I do, I dont have ahci running on sata II. Did all the reg edits. Everything is higher on sata II except read rate. its 210 sII vs 250 sIII.
But overall it feels good enough. Guess it would be worth it to get a native intel stataIII board with a sataIII ssd.

 

Ach/Ide settings should apply to all ports not just sata III seeing as both cant be running at same time

 

Look at your benchmark picture. STORAHCI is the loaded driver, so yes, it is using ahci.

 

Vertex 2 is a SATA II drive. Have u run trim though?

 

I forgot to add SSD's seem to work better with speedstep turned off.......

*edit
hey mate I just noticed your driver is MSAHCI, have u tried the Intel AHCI drivers?

 

More specifically, C3/C6 states.

 

That picture is of my Marvel Sata III port. I got ahci to run on that.
When I switched to Sata II ahci will not work on my SSD.
My 640gb which is used for steam, and 80GB for chrome downloads
both work in ahci on sata III. They both were in ide mode on sata II
before swapping them around. I also downloaded and installed the drivers
you had posted.

 

Is that so? No C3 state if you got a ssd in your system, do I understand that correctly? Is there a specific technical background for that?

 

AH my bad, thought i read the 2nd post was SATA 2.

Anyways, if you can boot on the sata 2 ports, just install the AHCI driver in the x64 folder using have disk from device manager on the storage controller. After that, dont reboot do this

1) Run the Registry Editor (regedit.exe)
2) Navigate to Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci
3) Set the "Start" value to 0 (zero)
4) Navigate to Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Pciide
5) Set the "Start" value to 0 (zero)

C3 and C6 power savings affect SSDs speeds. If you dont care about that, then it doesnt matter. Some people found out loading prime95 with high cpu usage gave better SSD scores, found out it was the c states.

 

I mean speedstep, sometimes file transfers don't load the CPU enough to make it change p-states and SSD's can be a bit faster when the CPU is working at full throttle....


Incidentally I just discovered AMD RAID drivers are seriously impeding read speed. First bench is with RAID drivers 2nd is with AHCI drivers.

 

Yesterday I manually replaced the Gigabyte controllers listed in Storage Controllers section of Device Manager with the Intel ones. This caused a BSOD so I probably did it wrong. I do have both the linked Intel resources installed now, but I don't think they're being used. Scores are the same as before, and no change in Device Manager.

How can I successfully use the Intel drivers throughout my system? Thanks

 

Do u have AHCI turned on in BIOS?

 

Yep.

 

What's the dump file say ?

 

OK, I dunno how to get whatever dump file is being asked for. I did however buy a new SSD. Here's an interesting graphic about that:



Note that this is running over Sata 2.

On the left is the SSD on September 3rd. On the right is the SSD on October 4th. This disk is less than 5% full and it's barely been used. The PC has been off from September 10th - September 30th, but it was running great before that.

I haven't made any system changes, although there have been some Windows updates.

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UPDATE: I've tried many things over the last few hours, and the problem was solved after the following actions: Running the TRIM operation from Samsung Magician, then formatting the drive (properly). Although now ASSD gives this error for the last test: