• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

4k alignment = Slow drive?

T

tonspike

Limp Gawd
Joined
May 24, 2008
Messages
255
Hey guys, I have a Samsung 830 128gb SSD that I've never bothered to benchmark until now--but I'm seeing write speeds considerably slower than what's posted online in other benchmarks/reviews. The main difference I see when looking at AS SSD Benchmark screenshots is the alignment--I manually aligned my drive to 4k while the screenshots I see online are almost all 1k. Would this/should this make a difference? Any recommendations? :confused:

My SSD
Q1fgS.png


Random online benchmark
samsung%20830%20ssd%20as%20ssd.png
 
the random benchmark has two factors that increase its speed over yours

#1 is that the random benchmark was probably done on a clean, empty drive. write speeds reduce to about half when you actually put data on the drives.

#2 is that the random benchmark has the drive on D: and yours is on C: meaning your computer is actively using C: to load its OS and stuff. the drive is in use. when it is on D:, that means they are benchmarking the drive while it is not in use.

if you wanted to fully replicate their setup, you would have to boot windows from another drive, clear the cells on your ssd, and run the test on a completely empty drive.

none of that will be necessary though, you really won't see any speed difference. I don't think the 1k to 4k thing will have any impact either.

do what you can to verify you have trim enabled to see if that will help your write speeds. also, you have 16gb of ram, which I imagine isn't being fully used. download http://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/fancy-cache/index.html (volume edition) and setup ONLY read caching on your ssd, maybe 4gb of ram dedicated to it. you'll find that programs you've recently opened open even faster, and that will greatly improve your desktop experience if you are seeing any slowdowns.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top