Hi there, new to this thread
Currently i'm using OCZ Agility 3, no problem so far until this morning
I use Autoclick last night(overnight) & when i turn on my monitor this morning, a BSOD with 000007a is showing, i try to restart and it say my boot drive is missing
Then i go to my BIOS and check, there's only my HDD n optical drive, SSD Gone?!?!

I turn off everything and unplug the SSD, then plug in and try again, it works fine..no problem after running some bench (cine,prime..)

Anyone know what's wrong with the BSOD? do i have to update my firmware?
Please please
thanks in advance

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Added on November 11, 2011, 10:41 am It's on SATA3 port, but the speed looks like SATA2..hmm

This post has been edited by rudolfjie: Nov 11 2011, 10:41 AM

but still u havent update your firmware..
yes u need to update the firmware. thats the problem with sandforce...
acording to this spec sheet your speed is above average... thats good laa.. if u want to see correct speed use ATTO coz OCZ using ATTO to get the highest spec speed
http://www.ocztechnology.com/res/manuals/O...oduct_sheet.pdf

Update to FW v2.15
-slight degrade in performance but they claim to fix random bsod problem.

I using it, until now i dont face any bsod. I just bought few days ago tho.

yes u need to update the firmware. thats the problem with sandforce...

Thanks, btw is'it gonna be rocket science to update it?
Do i have to back up everything? (use for OS and program, how to back up?)

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Added on November 11, 2011, 11:38 amThanks, did you back-up your SSD b4 update? OCZ website state there "Please do not update firmware unless absolutely necessary. Firmware updates may result in loss of user data and we recommend you back up your data before updating the firmware."

How i'm gonna back up my OS n program?


This post has been edited by rudolfjie: Nov 11 2011, 11:38 AM

it is better to do a clean install for sandforce..

I updated mine without losing any data. But still its better for u to backup no matter what.
It supposed to be easy with "OCZ Toolbox" , but it doesnt work for me.
I used this manual way. Link

Thanks for the link, very detail.. will try out tonight

firmware updated



AHCI fw0002




AHCI fw0009



slight improvement again but slower at seq and 512k???

This post has been edited by mizi28: Nov 11 2011, 02:57 PM

much better. dont look at 512k. whats important is 4k.

This post has been edited by iaknesnah: Nov 11 2011, 03:26 PM

I believe u need to do some windows tweaking to get results like this:

latest result after installing m/b driver

what kind of tweaking should i do?

Impressive! now those are the correct speeds

SSD Optimization

M4 is the faster speed in 4k

too bad.. my sponsor is not crucial

in fact Crucial owns any SSD in 4K
4K Random Read, primarily Q1 is the most important thing for 97% of users.



This post has been edited by owikh84: Nov 11 2011, 05:04 PM

fuh, everyone on sata3 ssd edi. me poorfag still using vertex2.

I bought 2x 60GB Agility 3 and use in RAID0, cheaper than one crucial M4 128GB by USD50. Maybe M4 is more reliable.

Hard to judge performance as Agility 3 uses compression.

Compressed data


Compressible data


I guess average performance will be somewhere in between.

guys for sandforce u need to use ATTO benchmark, please....

This post has been edited by iaknesnah: Nov 13 2011, 10:48 PM

What's the point in using atto it's so unrealistic as it just writes zero's to the drive. Who buys a drive just to write zero's to it?


FWIW, not a lot IMO as you'll not get these speeds in real life.



This post has been edited by Zibel: Nov 14 2011, 12:17 AM

regardless of thailand flood, wnt to ask..whats the best SSD now for money? (i mean, the same as F3 for HDD)

Hi guys,
I am thinking of buying a SSD. Am not sure which to choose. I got two option. Either the AData S511 or the Corsair Force 3 GT 120 or 160GB. Which one do you guys recommend? Any one using before this or any friend of yours is using? Would like some suggestions and opinions. Thanks