Crucial M4 64GB SSD Raid 0 (1099MB/s reads for <$200)

[RedBeard]

I just purchased a pair of 64GB M4 on sale at for ~90 each.

Here is my crystaldisk mark result. So far I am pretty impressed. For under $200 bucks it is a winner.

Now I installed the Intel RST and enabled write back cache:

Everything installed in my Fractal Designs case:

My mainboard is an ASUS P8P67M-Pro

 

[zCypher]

god damn.

 

[RU482]

that there....that's fast

imagine what 2 256GB M4s would do

 

[exdeath]

I always love seeing 4K randoms being 2-4x faster than the best spindle drive's best case sequential. 60 year old pieces of crap need to go the way of floppies, punch cards, and 8 tracks.

 

[lupi]

My single doesn't seem to be so fast.


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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 336.622 MB/s
Sequential Write : 77.926 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 320.921 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 77.762 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 30.333 MB/s [ 7405.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 60.639 MB/s [ 14804.5 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 228.095 MB/s [ 55687.3 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 79.948 MB/s [ 19518.6 IOPS]

Test : 100 MB [C: 48.4&#37; (28.8/59.5 GB)] (x1)
Date : 2011/09/14 0:29:15
OS : Windows 7 SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

 

[know of fence]

I always love seeing 4K randoms being 2-4x faster than the best spindle drive's best case sequential. 60 year old pieces of crap need to go the way of floppies, punch cards, and 8 tracks.

HDDs will not go away, simply because HD video demands so much space (1GB/h), and 25nm NAND is already approaching atomic dimensions (0.2nm) while getting more flimsy in the process.

 

[yinan]

HD video requires way more than 1GB/hr. Most of my ripped blu ray movies are like 15-40 GB.

 

[Burner27]

What motherboard is this on, RedBeard?

 

[videopho]

Is this what you've got?
http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0364541
I was thinking doing the same thing but now seeing this...

 

[RedBeard]

What motherboard is this on, RedBeard?

My mainboard is an ASUS P8P67M-Pro

 

[RedBeard]

Is this what you've got?
http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0364541
I was thinking doing the same thing but now seeing this...

Yep, the exact same drive.

I got mine from B&H Photo when they went out of stock on newegg.

 

[Burner27]

Nice!! I should RAID my 2 x 128GB Crucial C300s

 

[Old Hippie]

Nice!! I should RAID my 2 x 128GB Crucial C300s

Say What?

You ain't done this yet?

 

[dbcooper1]

Impressive; why are the 4K reads slower than the 4K writes though?

 

[Burner27]

Say What?

You ain't done this yet?

I did but I didn't want to reinstall everything from scratch. So I imaged it over following the instructions from another thread here but my 4k results sucked. So I reverted back. Either I have to do a fresh install (most likely) or I missed something (enabling write-back cache). With the RAID my 4k writes were in the 50MB/s range, but with a single drive, my 4k writes were in the high 70s to low 80s.

Advice?

 

[Spikesoldier]

nice, post a AS ssd benchmark!

 

[zCypher]

I'll just leave this here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiLSXvNaCME

 

[Old Hippie]

Advice?

I know that you have the capability to to it correctly.

 

[Burner27]

I know that you have the capability to to it correctly.

In other words, do a fresh install and stop being a whiney-baby?

 

[Old Hippie]

In other words, do a fresh install and stop being a whiney-baby?

And use the latest drivers with write-back cache enabled.

I'd say that covers the situation.

 

[Burner27]

Ok I still cannot enable write-back cache--I think. Can someone assist me. See my other thread:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2192110