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Installed my X-25M G2 80GB earlier today and noted erratic benchmark performance over the first 10% of the drive.
Sequence...
1. Installed drive
2. Initialized and formatted drive from Disk Management...the application actually stopped responding and the drive disappeared from Windows, although upon reboot it was there with the partition size I specified of 40GB (i'm wondering if this isn't the cause)
3. Installed Windows 7 64-bit (AHCI enabled) and formatted the 40GB partition again, this time without issue
4. Ran benchmarks, noted odd performance over the first 10% of the drive
5. Realized it didn't have a TRIM enabled firmware, thought maybe the installation of Windows caused fragmentation (although that would be very quick!)
6. Successfully updated firmware to HD (whatever one Intel released a few days ago)
7. Ran benchmarks again, same thing
8. Reinstalled Windows again, ran benchmarks, same thing
Benchmarks aside, it seems fine...no weird errors in the Event Viewer and Windows is behaving...the benchmark thing just bugs me - same thing happens in HD Tach and HD Tune.
I tried zero'ing out the drive with HDDErase 3.3 ISO and "hdparm --security-erase" via Parted Magic with no success, my BIOS is locking the drive from such low level access. Intel has pulled their "manual TRIM" utility for the time being, so I can only assume TRIM is enabled and working, although even if that's the case, I'm not sure if TRIM is retroactive to my first install with the non-TRIM firmware.
So is this normal? I've seen hdtach screens from G1 and G2 reviews where it's pretty much a straight line across.
My G2 on the right, G1 on the left.
Sequence...
1. Installed drive
2. Initialized and formatted drive from Disk Management...the application actually stopped responding and the drive disappeared from Windows, although upon reboot it was there with the partition size I specified of 40GB (i'm wondering if this isn't the cause)
3. Installed Windows 7 64-bit (AHCI enabled) and formatted the 40GB partition again, this time without issue
4. Ran benchmarks, noted odd performance over the first 10% of the drive
5. Realized it didn't have a TRIM enabled firmware, thought maybe the installation of Windows caused fragmentation (although that would be very quick!)
6. Successfully updated firmware to HD (whatever one Intel released a few days ago)
7. Ran benchmarks again, same thing
8. Reinstalled Windows again, ran benchmarks, same thing
Benchmarks aside, it seems fine...no weird errors in the Event Viewer and Windows is behaving...the benchmark thing just bugs me - same thing happens in HD Tach and HD Tune.
I tried zero'ing out the drive with HDDErase 3.3 ISO and "hdparm --security-erase" via Parted Magic with no success, my BIOS is locking the drive from such low level access. Intel has pulled their "manual TRIM" utility for the time being, so I can only assume TRIM is enabled and working, although even if that's the case, I'm not sure if TRIM is retroactive to my first install with the non-TRIM firmware.
So is this normal? I've seen hdtach screens from G1 and G2 reviews where it's pretty much a straight line across.
My G2 on the right, G1 on the left.
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