Falcon SSD performance degradation

[Tenoq]

Hi all!

I've got a first-gen Falcon 128GB in my Win 7 box, currently running the 1819 firmware (not the latest, because updating is such a PITA).

Now unfortunately for me, although this firmware supports TRIM (AFAIK) it doesn't seem to be working on my box. I AM running the new AMD AHCI driver (1.2.1.263) which supposedly supports TRIM, but my write performance has basically halved since the last time I tested it.

• I've tried running wiper.exe - no joy. ("No drive installed proper firmware found")
• I've tried reverting to the MS AHCI driver - no joy, and benches even lower.

So... how do I get TRIM back? How long does it take? How do you force it to run? Help!?!

[OldnBold]

What OS are you running?

[Cpt.J.Sparrow]

Have you installed that AHCI driver when installing Win 7?

If you did after installing Windows, it might cause some performance hits on AMD rigs. I don't know why; I am guessing AHCI driver Win 7 comes with doesn't like being replaced by AMD one.

[Tenoq]

Originally Posted by OldnBold

What OS are you running?

As posted in the OP.

Originally Posted by Cpt.J.Sparrow

If you did after installing Windows, it might cause some performance hits on AMD rigs. I don't know why; I am guessing AHCI driver Win 7 comes with doesn't like being replaced by AMD one.

I did install it after installing Windows - but at the time it benched about 10% faster than the standard Microsoft one so I was quite happy with that. (Although WEI scored it significantly slower, 6.8 vs 7.3 with the stock driver. But every bench actually reported it as being measurably faster).

Now the read speed is still very high, (220MB/s) but the write speed is atrocious (50-60MB/s) and my only conclusion is that TRIM isn't working. So how do I make it "do its thing", so to speak?

[terrastrife]

try a tony trim.

i cant gurantee this will work fo ryou, but if you could simply try as cleaner ff.exe in ff mode first.

windows trim is useless, thats the bottom line. gc works ok as long as you are logged out of your pc for a couple of hours a day.

i run a tonty trim every 3-4 weeks on my samsung ssd.

[Tenoq]

Originally Posted by terrastrife

try a tony trim.

i cant gurantee this will work fo ryou, but if you could simply try as cleaner ff.exe in ff mode first.

windows trim is useless, thats the bottom line. gc works ok as long as you are logged out of your pc for a couple of hours a day.

i run a tonty trim every 3-4 weeks on my samsung ssd.

Legend!

Worked perfectly. The results have me benching even higher than I was when I first got the drive!

Results:

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
                           Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

           Sequential Read :   236.813 MB/s
          Sequential Write :   144.167 MB/s
         Random Read 512KB :   207.380 MB/s
        Random Write 512KB :   188.838 MB/s
    Random Read 4KB (QD=1) :    27.134 MB/s [  6624.5 IOPS]
   Random Write 4KB (QD=1) :    17.830 MB/s [  4353.0 IOPS]
   Random Read 4KB (QD=32) :    64.246 MB/s [ 15685.1 IOPS]
  Random Write 4KB (QD=32) :    18.618 MB/s [  4545.4 IOPS]

  Test : 100 MB [C: 44.7% (53.2/119.1 GB)] (x5)
  Date : 2010/12/06 13:09:12
    OS : Windows 7 Ultimate Edition [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)

[4wardtristan]

can you please post a link for tony-trim? my breif googling isnt turning up much. Thanks.

edit: found it

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...-EOL-OCZ-SSD-s.