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New C300 Firmware.
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I was having freezing problems (no crashes, just intermittent freezes), so I installed the 007 firmware a few minutes ago. I ran three benchmarks before and after to upgrade and I'm posting them here. First, my system:
Asus P8P67 Pro bios 1502
2600K (stock settings)
Win 7 Ult. x64
C300 128GB on Intel 6GBs
Intel RST 10.5.0.1022
First with fw 006:
Forgot to screen capture run #2:
353.1 135.7
24.8 51.6
222.0 120.5
0.149 0.792
282 186
610
Now with 007:
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Asus P8P67 Pro bios 1502
2600K (stock settings)
Win 7 Ult. x64
C300 128GB on Intel 6GBs
Intel RST 10.5.0.1022
First with fw 006:
Forgot to screen capture run #2:
353.1 135.7
24.8 51.6
222.0 120.5
0.149 0.792
282 186
610
Now with 007:
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Falcon_CMH
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Here are my before and after got a higher speed rating with the update for 2x C300 256GBs RAID 0 but prolly just a margin of error:
FYI for people with ASUS P8P67 MBs do this first:
1) Turn off the Marvel SATA controller
2) Turn off the second Intel SATA controller
3) Turn off smart drive
4) Set the first Intel SATA controller to IDE compatible
Before:
After:
FYI for people with ASUS P8P67 MBs do this first:
1) Turn off the Marvel SATA controller
2) Turn off the second Intel SATA controller
3) Turn off smart drive
4) Set the first Intel SATA controller to IDE compatible
Before:
After:
What are those settings for? Benchmarking?
Falcon_CMH
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No for applying the Firmware update, Just switch to ACHI or IDE didn'twork. So I set all that it might be less but that works.
Oh, OK. I just rebooted with the CD and didn't do anything and it worked fine for me.
Old Hippie
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I'm gonna pass on the update for now.
I have no stuttering problem with the drives and see no performance increase with the update.
I have had a few incidents where the drive became unresponsive, with the two most recent being a complete stall during initial bootup. Rebooted the system and the drive would boot just fine. I've also experienced the stuttering. So far with the new firmware I have had no issues.
What driver are you running? I wasn't getting any real issues until the 10.5 driver and now I get hangs on the time. Just got one after I did the 007 update.
I am using the 10.5.0.1022 RST drivers from Station-drivers. Here's my AS-SSD benchmark:
Old Hippie
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I think you got the best drive around.
Although your write access time is high, my 2x256GB units in RAID0 have dropped the 4K Write scores from 150MB/s to @ 55MB/s with write access times increasing 300% from 154ms to 449ms.
I can't say that I notice any difference from the 150MB/s that I was getting but it's still a dramatic decrease in statistics.
Maybe the drives aren't made for the long haul?
Maybe they're not meant to be RAIDed without some aggressive GC. I don't know. All I know is my jump to RAID my 2 x 128GB drives has been hindered a bit. Everytime I try to activate the Intel RAID controller and then reboot, the mobo just constantly beeps at me. I have to figure out what is causing it to do that.
I am using the 10.5.0.1022 RST drivers from Station-drivers. Here's my AS-SSD benchmark:
Ahh but your not running your C300 as your OS drive right? I just got my first hang and AI Suite could be hte problem. That program always acts goofy but I noticed my HD light was lit up solid and I couldnt really do anything.
Old Hippie
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Doesn't compute.
I've let my machine run idle all night and have SecureErased the drives with no difference.
There's a flaw/problem in the drives somewhere.
Correct, that is my VM drive.
I will run AS-SSD on my OS drive later tonight when I get home.
Here are my before and after got a higher speed rating with the update for 2x C300 256GBs RAID 0 but prolly just a margin of error:
FYI for people with ASUS P8P67 MBs do this first:
1) Turn off the Marvel SATA controller
2) Turn off the second Intel SATA controller
3) Turn off smart drive
4) Set the first Intel SATA controller to IDE compatible
Before:
After:
And why are we turning off these settings? Also so you run the Asus AI Suite II?
So I removed AI Suite II just to see and Got a freeze trying to use CPUID hardware monitor which really didnt pickup my sensors anyways. I started doing some reading about the iastor (sp?) error I was getting and found a thread in the Vertex forums where users are setting the "Hot Swap" function to enabled for the port the SSD drive is on and this is fixing the Freezes for them. I made the change and so far so good but Ill give it a good week before I call it fixed. Then I might introduce AI Suite II back onto my sytem because I loved the fan control etc....
EDIT: Forgot to add this issue is with P67 and SSD...
EDIT: Forgot to add this issue is with P67 and SSD...
I have all of my SSDs ONLY with the Hot Swap enabled. Here is my C300 OS drive benchmarks. Keep in mind I had Firefox running in the background and I was downloading Ubuntu 11.04:
I have all of my SSDs ONLY with the Hot Swap enabled. Here is my C300 OS drive benchmarks. Keep in mind I had Firefox running in the background and I was downloading Ubuntu 11.04:
Score dropped a bit. Oh and so far I have had no lockups with hot swap enabled. Its like its fixed but I won't get ahead of my self. I will give it more time. I never knew to enable Hot Swap or that there was any issue with this.
Here is my OS C300 drive with NOTHING else open (other than AS-SSD)
Thats is pretty good. Your 4K write is so much better than mine. Not sure why. I get mid to high 50s at best.
Did you try the 10.5.0.1022 drivers?
yup.. on 10.5.. did the 007 flash and now am freeze free since enabeling HOT SWAP.. well atleast over a day of use without freezes.
I turned off write cache buffer and my score shotup to 644.. my 4K read went to 29K and write went to 69K which is way better then I was getting. Is it ok to run this? I swear i used to disable this for my RAID setups. I am also on an APC so blackouts arent a problem.
Do you mean that you checked the box for the drive under policies that says "Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device"?
I have my doubts how safe that is. Even with a UPS, things can go wrong. The computer could crash, the PSU could fail, a power cable could come loose...
Can you tell the difference just using your computer (without running a benchmark)?
Dunno, I ran my last setup like that for 2 years though lol. I had plenty of PC crashes and never had a problem. I might go back and uncheck it.
Interesting. I checked the write cache buffer flush and my score went to 643 from about 617. Reads are down but writes are up by twice the read loss.
We dont have to reboot for htis to take effect right?
I don't think so. It doesn't say it needs rebooting to take effect by either checking or unchecking.
So I played some COD Black Ops and noticed the maps are loading faster. The bar has less stops and seems to speed through the map load with this setting.
Is there any advantage to putting the paging file on a seperate HD?
Are there writes going on during this process? Because it is hard to see how not flushing the write buffer on barriers is going to speed up disk reads.
I was thinking the same.. but im getting scores better then it has ever scored and I can actually see the difference in game loads. *shrug*. Also turning on HOT SWAP officially fixed my freeze issues!
I think it is only on the P8P67 series of mobos that have the option in the EFI to turn on hotswap. I don't know of any other board (perhaps Gigabyte, ASRock, MSI that use their own version of the EFI BIOS) that has this capability.
there are a lot of posts out there that go along the lines of "I updated my firmware and how it's hosed". Always backup your data as JohnleMVP suggest before doing anything like this.
I use ghost to and write to dvd. It's slow to make a backup but slow is okay as long as i'm safe.