Am I doing something wrong?

[imExcitebike]

A coworker of mine sold me this OCZ Vertex 64Gb SSD yesterday.

I have it set up as my boot drive and this is what I get from HD Tune:

Does this look right? I guess I was expecting it to be a little higher/consistent.

 

[Menelmarar]

Yes, it should be flatter; however, you indicated that's your boot drive, with OS/swap, everything actively running on it. Those things could interfere in the test. HDTune takes some time to run that sweep, so lots of time for the OS to do some random background task or memory swapping to the disk.

Generally drives are not tested in the boot/OS configuration.

Still seems a little slow, was thinking those would surpass 200MB... but maybe not.

 

[imExcitebike]

Ok cool. I've got another drive I can put in to boot from. I'll try rerunning the tests from it.

 

[nitrobass24]

What mobo?

Looks like you are on an NVidia Chipset.

 

[SR45]

Agree with nitrobass24. If you have a nVidia board then you can do the following to improve things a bit but will never be able to get Secure erase/Sanitary Erase nor HDDerase either and would have to have a Intel chipset board to clean the SSD. Some can and some cannot get a hold of another system to do this.

If you do have a nVidia board, do the following to improve on the benchmark and get TRIM command.

Windows 7 doesn't pass on the TRIM command using nVidia motherboards

Only this way you will get the full Trim support.

How to replace your nVidia Controller to the Microsoft "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" which helped in getting better performance benchmark numbers pluse knowing that TRIM is actually activated and working on your eVGA 780i/750i mobo with nVidia controllers....

1... (Device Manager)

Go into Device Manager by way of Start > typing in the Search Box above Start, "Device Manager" > Click on device manager in the box above when it appears.

2. Find and click on Storage Controller where you will find the nVidia installed Controller drivers. Right click your mouse button on it.

3...Click on “Update Driver”

4...Choose and click on “Browse” for drivers

5...You will now see two suggestions, one being "Search Automatically" or below that "Browse my computer". Click on “Browse”.

6...Next box, you are met with two selections, one being "Browse" and the next one "Let me pick" and that is the one you select.

7...Next box pop up, you will see "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" from Microsoft and this is the one to click on. You will then be required to restart the system, then restart again a few moments later. Now you have the Microsoft Controller and not nVidia, which should give you a better SSD performance.

After doing this, you will then find that a new entry will be made near the upper third of Device Manager list "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller" If you click on this you will find the Microsoft drivers listed.

 

[imExcitebike]

I'm running an EVGA X58 SLI LE so I'm running on an Intel chipset.

 

[nitrobass24]

hrmm.....

/color me confused

Well what are your SATA settings?
What other devices are you using on the SATA ports?
Whats the OS?

Did you perform a secure erase before installation?
What firmware rev are you using.

 

[imExcitebike]

I'm running my SATA in Raid as I have 2 250 Sata drives in a raid0.

I did not perform a secure erase before installing. Maybe that's the issue. And if so, How do I do a secure erase?

 

[nitrobass24]

I use UBCD4.1. On there you will find HDDErase 3.1 that should work.