I have been looking arround the net for people with recent sandforce drives and their benchmarks.
I searched for people with ocz vertex 2, corsair force and mushkin callisto.
I have a gskill phoenix pro.
First time I benched my 1 week old drive in HD Tune (after secure erase and clean win 7 install in AHCI mode with latest intel RST), I noticed this:
My Gskill Phoenix Pro 80GB:
I have tested firmware 2.1 and 3.1 and the result is the same.
Something is very wrong with the first 20% of the drive. I have seen a lot people with phoenix pro drives with the same issue. AND I have seen some people with Mushkin Callisto with the same issue, AND some people with OCZ Vertex 2 too.
But most of those strange looking benchs I have seen, came from gskill drives.
Here are some examples of some drives performing solid in HD Tune:
Mushkin Callisto:
OCZ Vertex 2:
So, my question is, why only some of us have this strange looking result like mine? And why others have a solid straight line result?
Maybe some drives are being shipped with low quality nands?
I really hope this is a firmware issue or some other issue that can be solved with a new firmware, but I really don't think it is.
I searched for people with ocz vertex 2, corsair force and mushkin callisto.
I have a gskill phoenix pro.
First time I benched my 1 week old drive in HD Tune (after secure erase and clean win 7 install in AHCI mode with latest intel RST), I noticed this:
My Gskill Phoenix Pro 80GB:
I have tested firmware 2.1 and 3.1 and the result is the same.
Something is very wrong with the first 20% of the drive. I have seen a lot people with phoenix pro drives with the same issue. AND I have seen some people with Mushkin Callisto with the same issue, AND some people with OCZ Vertex 2 too.
But most of those strange looking benchs I have seen, came from gskill drives.
Here are some examples of some drives performing solid in HD Tune:
Mushkin Callisto:
OCZ Vertex 2:
So, my question is, why only some of us have this strange looking result like mine? And why others have a solid straight line result?
Maybe some drives are being shipped with low quality nands?
I really hope this is a firmware issue or some other issue that can be solved with a new firmware, but I really don't think it is.
Comment