Is my Intel 530 SSD underperforming?

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Hello forum.

Yesterday I manage to assemble my PC with Intel's 530 SSD drive. It was running all fine and so on. Today, just being curious, I've decided to run some benchmarks on it.

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As you can see, in the AS SSD bench the write speed seems to be pretty low (I've tested the WD Caviar Blue 1TB and it has the same write speed as the SSD right now).

I already:


■ Moved paging file
■ Moved all temp files
■ Disabled indexing
■ Enabled AHCI
■ Disabled hibernation
■ Turned off buffer flush
■ Turned off prefetcher and superfetch



My OS boots up around 14 seconds (counting from the POST beep) and I have currently around 30GB of free space on it (there's OS + BF4 + CSGO and few software like Skype, AntiVirus).

Any ideas? Should I be worried?
 
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Not sure about the W/R performance of those SSDs, but have you checked with Intel support to see if there are any firmware updates? I have updated a few SSD firmware's in the past, and got big increases in performance afterwards.
 
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Just checked and I got the newest firmware on it
 
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I would bench some games with it. You could try installing 3dmark on the Caviar, and the SSD and see how it performs against it. 14 second boot sounds about right for an SSD.

 
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Yeah well, as I said - the OS runs as it should, and also BF4 loads super-fast compared to the Caviar where I had it before. It's just the benchmarks numbers are weird... I know that the real speed is somewhere inbetween the AS SSD and ATTO results so I guess it's just about fine and it's just the Sandforce's controller that kinda falls behind with totally uncompressible files like AS SSD uses for testing.

Blah, I shouldn't bother probably.
 
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Yeah I wouldn't "Paniq" Paniq ;P Sandforce SATA controllers are known to be flaky at best.

 
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As a side question:
Is there like some kind of percentage of how much free space should I leave on the SSD or the 9GB that is provisioned is already enough and I shouldn't bother with leaving like over 15-20GB of space on it just for performance's sake?
 
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