why dont just use the intel native sata ports?
Third party(jmicron/marvel/asmedia ect) sata controller still inferior to native intel/amd chipset sata port, in terms of read/write performance.
third party sata port should be use with optical disk drives, or slow hdd.

Err, "SATA2" is not the answer.. if you guys read the post correctly, he changed from IDE mode th AHCI mode, the boot time became slower, and SATA2 port is the answer??
My old Kingston SSD can boot pretty fast too, its SATA2 drive too.

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Added on September 4, 2012, 6:27 pmTry to use AHCI driver from AMD, http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/wind..._windows.aspx#2
your are currently using the default Microsoft AHCI driver.
and check if you have TRIM command enabled, by paste this on the CMD command prompt:
fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
IF "DisableDeleteNotify" = 0, Trim is enabled.

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Sep 4 2012, 06:29 PM

As long as your SSD is running on AHCI mode its should be fine,
Is there any "Storage Controller" on the device manager?
Any third party and native SATA controller will only appear under "Storage Controller", iirc.

If your OS is windows 7, there are only a few tweaks needed, personally im using this http://www.elpamsoft.com/?p=SSD-Tweaker
a few more things are, disable hibernation(can be very large if your system ram capacity is high), and reduce the pagefile size, not disable pagefile.

You should hovering around the option on the SSD tweaker to see what the options does
The best setting is left everything unticked and disabled
And since hibernation is only useful when you have small ram + hdd, and since SSD greatly accelerated the booting speed, thus its not needed now, read this to figure out how to disable it http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920730

That SSD is sandforce based
Try to use ATTO bench instead, and you should use the ACHI driver from intel, not the default AHCI driver from microsoft

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Added on October 17, 2012, 12:55 amYup yup, can consider these:
http://www.kingston.com/en/usb/personal_business#dthx30
http://www.sandisk.com/products/usb/drives/extreme/
http://www.sony.net/Products/Media/Microva...sm-q/index.html
Kingston one is the fastest, close to SATA 3GB/s speed, and larger capacity like 256GB also available.

This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Oct 17 2012, 12:55 AM

Why i got the feeling that, everyone bough a new SSD sure come here to post SSD bench as ask for help?
Sounds like bragging lol
If you compare with the benchmark score with the other user here, yours one look already very good,
Can compare the result from here too http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/4520/sams...iew/index5.html
and please install a AHCI driver from Intel if you are using intel mobo, it will improve performance compare to defaul AHCI driver frim microsoft.

The Bundled software probably is disk cloning utility, if you install your OS and software from scratch, you dont need it.
If your OS is windows 7, you dont have to tweak anything iirc, beside disable hibernation and reduce pagefile size?

Just kidding lah
Whats your mobo? 4hdd + 1 ssd will not have performance impact for your SSD, i used all my SATA ports on my AMD mobo, 8 of them, no problem(although my ssd benchmark result are somewhat wierd).
Again, install the intel AHCI driver first, and run benchmark again.

Did you tried to restart? if you already install the AHCI driver / intel RST,

on AS SSD it will show "iastor" on the highlighted area, if the intel AHCI driver is enabled,
"msahci" is the default driver from microsoft, its probably the most stable driver for SSD but the performance is not good compare to native one.

I cloned my Windows XP and 7 partition too, didnt do clean install as it quite hassle to redownload all the windows update, which is time consuming + slow.
For tweaking, just use SSD Tweaker http://www.elpamsoft.com/?p=SSD-Tweaker
will solve a lot of headache

Trial, Pro version will not pop up iirc.
Or if you prefer to tweak the registry manually http://www.overclock.net/t/1133897/windows...-tweaking-guide

+2
The life of SSD depends on the flash type, SLC's life is longer than MLC, but SLC is faster and expensive [1]
P/E cycle, most ssd has 3k of programming/erase cycle, only few of them has 5k, eg the Kingston hyperx ssd, also more expensive, although normal ssd already have longer life unless you put them on server(lot more read/write).
SSD has no mechanical part and you dont have worry bout head crash[2], or mechanical part failure, if you accidentally dropped/kicked your pc/laptop, its a lot better than traditional hdd

Always make a scheduled backup by using your old hdd ect, even though ssd has higher endurance, their chance of failure sometimes is unpredictable.

I remember someone said on Anandtech: "Using ssd but worry bout its life, its like drive a ferrari buy worry bout the gasoline mileage"

You are correct in the bolded part
The fastest desktop SATA 6GB/s SSD(pcie ssd is different story i think) performance is read 550MByte/s and write 510MByte/s, which is close to SATA 6GB/s (600MBtye per second, according to wikipedia) limit already.

Overall i think is good already, bettter than change to new mobo just for the sake fully utilize the ssd potential.

third party sata card usually using marvel chip, many high end mobo also using the same thing, basically it has no match for native intel/amd sata 3 controller.
unless you bought the LSI pcie sata 3 card, which prolly will make some difference but its very expensive.

Well im no pro either, im still learning everyday
LSI is not for average pc user though, http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecompone...SAS9750-4i.aspx
You can check the other HBAs as well, cheapest one is 2xx USD
You may see some improvements on the benchmark but honestly, you can hardly feel any difference in real world scenario.

And honestly, your AS SSD benchmark result are better than mine, even though im using 990X mobo with HyperX SSD

If want cheapest, go for 64gb SATA2 based ssd loh, old hdd use as data and storage drive.
My XP 32bit dont use more than 7GB, and w8 only utilize 16GB currently. Can use NTFS compression to squeeze out more space, but that will increase write to ssd(shorter life span+performance impact)

Well, if you want to check your SSD info, try to use CrystalDiskInfo to check the Smart status.
Or run "chkdsk /f" on command prompt, windows will check the bad sectors for you.
if both Smart status shows warning and windows found a bad sectors? back up your data first, although it may be a little too late, and of course RMA it

every pc components have a chance to fail, you can never tell when your pc is going to brick.

Whats your OS? or it could be your cpu degraded since you oc'ed so high
If your PC keep crashing, you should check the windows logs for more info, it records everything that happened to the system.
and make sure to disable automatic reboot when blue screen, so you can find out the BSOD codes code before it reboots.

Sign of bad hdd/ssd are: random blue screen, read/write file extremely slow, the hdd/ssd disappear without warning.
and of course you can see a lot of warning/error related to "disk" appear on the windows log.

I was just guessing well i never oc'ed intel cpu before. CPU degraded probably means it no longer can maintain stability at the specific voltage, you may need to increase more voltage to make it stable again.
i'd recommend you to play a couple of game/IBT/stress test to see whether if your pc still crash.
faulty psu and ram also can make pc unstable too.

go to "Run" and type eventvwr.msc, you will find the system log under windows logs.

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Added on November 28, 2012, 12:02 pmhttp://www.photofast.tw/products_ExternalSSD.asp ?
not as fast as Sandisk extreme usb thumbdrive/HyperX thumbdrive though.


This post has been edited by 1024kbps: Nov 28 2012, 12:06 PM

Yup, but iirc some other SSD already selling at cheaper price, you still can connect the SSD to eSATA port provided your mobo support SATA 6GB/s, but the sata power connector is a bit hassle to connect
some SSD bundle a enclosure(Kingston HyperX SSD upgrade kit for example) to connect your SSD to USB port(no messy wires), but the transfer rat will be stuck at 480MBit/s (60MB/s)