OCZ Vertex SSDs- Initial Results

**Detale** · 12-30-2009, 05:03 PM

I also did that "Tony Trin method" but noticed no difference yet. On the OCZ forums that guy Tony said to not trust Atto results and to use AS-SSD Bench instead saying you will get more consistent results with this app.

Damn clocker that sucks dude. What cleaning methods have you done?

**Snee** · 12-30-2009, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by Detale

I also did that "Tony Trin method" but noticed no difference yet.

I'd be highly surprised if you noticed a gain. You've not had the drives running a week yet to begin with

Also: over on the corsair forums, ATTO was one of the recommended benchmarks. More because they're sure it's not going to hurt performance, I think, though.

**Detale** · 12-30-2009, 05:32 PM

Yeah I knew i wouldn't see a difference. See now on the OCZ forums they said the same thing about the AS-ssd. Well that and not to benchmark everyday.

**clocker** · 12-31-2009, 12:48 PM

This is the weirdness that I keep running into...

Note that the burst speed has gone up about 30% but the read- especially in the unused sectors- has been cut in half.
Soon as I can figure out how to use Sanitary wipe I'm going to reload 7...for the third time in two days.
Grrr.

Edit: Finally procured the final parts needed to redo my loop and use D.'s tricky fittings.
I was going to wait for new SATA cables but maybe it's best the loop gets redone first to confirm that drive placement is OK.

**Snee** · 12-31-2009, 12:52 PM

Feh. I'll just wait for new firmware before I try any more 'fixing' (after a bit more messing around, it seems that running as-clean hurt performance after all).

At this point, I've decided I don't need it to be perfect, just smooth.

**clocker** · 12-31-2009, 06:10 PM

New OS install.
Drives were wiped on another PC, Win7 x 64 installed, new Intel Rapid Storage Tech drivers installed, disabled indexing, hibernation, system restore, enabled volume write-back caching.

Note that I've regained the average read speed although burst still seems low.

Now to run Perfect Disk and see what happens.

Edit: After an "aggressive" run of PD...

Better.
And finally, ATTO...

**Detale** · 01-02-2010, 07:02 AM

Just couldn't let me win could ya

I am going to try a clean install tomorrow as my speeds are lsowing as well now.

Well I have some questions for ya bro. how did you use the wiper exactly? Also WTF with those Vidoe scores!?

God damn man is that still the 8800?? My GTX 260 isn't even close to your MB/s? What did you do to it?

**clocker** · 01-02-2010, 12:38 PM

Cleaning the drives was a giant PITA.
The app I was trying to use is called Sanitary_Erase but I couldn't make it work.

Supposedly, you can run it from a thumb drive while booted to a Win7 install disk but my grasp of DOS is feeble and shaky and I got nowhere.
Took the drives- including the flash drive- to a friend's house and he magic-fingered his way to the app and wiped the drives.
I have no idea what he did...

As for the video scores...a look at our screenshots should tell you exactly what's going on.
Hint: turn off visual effects, dummy.