Just got a SSDnow v300. Got Windows 7 on it, and it boots fine! Mobo: Asus Rampage Gene III (it has two sata3 ports which I'm using the first for SSD, 2nd for HDD)
Running CrystalDiskMark with random data I get:
Sequential Read of sub-180MB/s
Sequential Write of sub-80MB/s
(With sets with data filled with 0, I get measurements closer to 350/250, which is still not up to par with Kingston's 450/450 statement, with the same benchmark (ATTO, uncompressed) )
Which is pretty awful for an SSD. I checked out the firmware, Mine's 5.21, not 5.05 which was the soruce of a lot of controversy.
I'm beginning to think the SSD isn't in AHCI, but would it make such a big difference?
*Neither my bios nor Kingston Toolbox 2.0 recognize this drive. I installed W7 as IDE but I followed tutorials on how to set it to AHCI without reformatting as below:
I've set the three Start registry codes to 0 via admin regedit: msahci, pciide, iaStorV.
Here are photos of my bios not recognizing the SSD correctly.
http://imgur.com/a/njROf
Running CrystalDiskMark with random data I get:
Sequential Read of sub-180MB/s
Sequential Write of sub-80MB/s
(With sets with data filled with 0, I get measurements closer to 350/250, which is still not up to par with Kingston's 450/450 statement, with the same benchmark (ATTO, uncompressed) )
Which is pretty awful for an SSD. I checked out the firmware, Mine's 5.21, not 5.05 which was the soruce of a lot of controversy.
I'm beginning to think the SSD isn't in AHCI, but would it make such a big difference?
*Neither my bios nor Kingston Toolbox 2.0 recognize this drive. I installed W7 as IDE but I followed tutorials on how to set it to AHCI without reformatting as below:
I've set the three Start registry codes to 0 via admin regedit: msahci, pciide, iaStorV.
Here are photos of my bios not recognizing the SSD correctly.
http://imgur.com/a/njROf
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