2 days ago I upgraded from an Intel X25-M G2 80GB to a Vertex 4 512GB. I expected some improvement, even more so considering I reinstalled win7 after a few years of continues use. However I'm still getting laggy programs on occasion in scenario's that I imagine would be gone with a good SSD. I can't tell if the bottleneck is somewhere else or if it really is the SSD.
I ran a few quick benchmarks to see if the drive was performing close-ish to the level seen in most reviews.
Here's a screenshot of a quick bench done just now for screenshot purposes:
And the Intel X25-M G2 80GB just for the hell of it, which is nearly full:
For comparison, here's Guru3D's benchmark of a Vertex 4 256GB with firmware 1.5:
http://guru3d.com/article/ocz-vertex-4-ssd-review-with-15-firmware/11
As you can see the numbers for the vertex are all lower except the random 4K read/write ones, they're actually higher for some strange reason. These tests were done after installing windows and a whole bunch of other stuff on the SSD like games, photoshop, mpc-hc, etc etc. which has already filled 180GB on the drive so I expected some reduction in performance but not this much.
It's plugged into a SATA3 port on of my Asus P6T Deluxe V2 and AHCI is enabled in the BIOS. The drive came with firmware 1.5 but before installing windows I pressed the update button on OCZ's tool anyway just to be sure.
I don't know if these performance numbers are game changing even for a heavy desktop user but I am concerned that I haven't configured the drive properly. Anyone have any idea's?
I ran a few quick benchmarks to see if the drive was performing close-ish to the level seen in most reviews.
Here's a screenshot of a quick bench done just now for screenshot purposes:
And the Intel X25-M G2 80GB just for the hell of it, which is nearly full:
For comparison, here's Guru3D's benchmark of a Vertex 4 256GB with firmware 1.5:
http://guru3d.com/article/ocz-vertex-4-ssd-review-with-15-firmware/11
As you can see the numbers for the vertex are all lower except the random 4K read/write ones, they're actually higher for some strange reason. These tests were done after installing windows and a whole bunch of other stuff on the SSD like games, photoshop, mpc-hc, etc etc. which has already filled 180GB on the drive so I expected some reduction in performance but not this much.
It's plugged into a SATA3 port on of my Asus P6T Deluxe V2 and AHCI is enabled in the BIOS. The drive came with firmware 1.5 but before installing windows I pressed the update button on OCZ's tool anyway just to be sure.
I don't know if these performance numbers are game changing even for a heavy desktop user but I am concerned that I haven't configured the drive properly. Anyone have any idea's?