OCZ Vertex 60G Issue

Hali_Newf · **Posted:** Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:45 am

A friend of mine has two OCZ Vertex 60GB 2.5IN SATA2 Solid State Disk Flash Drive SSD
Part #: OCZSSD2-1VTX60G in raid 0. ( 2 drives )

When he benches his drives, his write times are very bad - about 50Mbps. Reads are over 200 which is fine.

I do not own any ssd's so I am unable to assist much other than to look around forums and the internet so I thought I would post here in case any of you have an idea of setting etc that he should look into. His firmware version is 1.3 as well.

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:30 pm

OCZ forums are the place to look.

Phonix · **Posted:** Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:45 pm

Hardware or software raid?

I'm not so sure SSD's work properly in a software raid config...

Dedicated controller?

Is it being used for boot partition AND pagefile?

Something might be eating up the buffer...

Hali_Newf · **Posted:** Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:59 pm

Thanks Steve-O, I have suggested that to him, but posted here on the odd chance that someone else encountered this issue and have a viable solution or suggestion.

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:37 pm

All I know is I've seen that problem (or close to it) many a time on those forums.

Hali_Newf · **Posted:** Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:06 pm

any clue what the issue was or how it was fixed off the top of your head?

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:34 pm

Not without knowing any more info. Get him to try one card by itself.

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:47 am

I can virtually guarantee that this is your friend's problem:

(cut an paste from OCZ site)

Quote:

I had the same experience:

x3 30gb Vertex (1.4 fw) RAID0
ICH10R Gigabyte EX58 UD5
Windows 7 x64

I came across a thread talking about write caching, so I went into my drive properties and saw that it was on. I turned it off and ran HDTune and was still getting ~150. I turned it back on and ran the test again and got ~600 average. This is my second Windows 7 install on the same hardware set up. On both occasions I had to do the same thing to get ~600mb/s.

*On a clean install, Windows 7 indicated that write caching was on when it was actually off.*

I came across your thread looking for intel drivers for my raid controller on windows 7 x64, but I've had not luck so far...

Hope that helps.

I'm still happy I got a dedicated RAID card.

Hali_Newf · **Posted:** Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:43 pm

Hey Steve-O - thank you.

I just passed that along. He is going to try it tonight. If successful or not, I will post back the results.

Phonix · **Posted:** Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:57 pm

So much better going dedicated raid.

Oh and to answer my previous question, does software raid work on ssd's?

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Wed Mar 31, 2010 1:05 pm

Software raid, as in getting windows to do it for you? Or doing it on the motherboard's built-in raid controller?

Phonix · **Posted:** Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:39 pm

Yes, as in OS software to do it for you. Integrated raid is still hardware raid, albeit slow and inefficient...

Just remember reading somewhere not many drives support software raid config..

CMDR Steve-O · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:20 am

I've never heard of anyone even bothering to do it due to it's lesser efficiency.

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