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GA-Z97-D3H mediocre results with M.2 ADATA SP900
svcglobal:
The figures below are from AS SSD Benchmark, the first using Windows 7 Ultimate.
The second with Windows Pro 8.1.
Both installed twice, with clean install in order to check if results were the same and with all available updates.
All Intel drivers installed from the mobo disc.
GA-Z97-D3H with i5-4690K CPU @ 4.3 GHz and 16GB ram Crucial Revenge PRO Series Vengeance 2400 MHz.
Last F7 BIOS installed.
M.2 drive is ADATA SP900 with 512GB.
I know this M.2 drive from ADATA is not in the mobo white list but I was expecting something better!
And this image below also is very strange since the message "SSD drive not found" is, at minimum, bizarre...
I tried to look something useful in the BIOS setup but found nothing.
Any thoughts will be appreciated, thank you.
absic:
Is the SATA Controller set to AHCI Mode or RAID?
Did you change the setting for the SATA Express SRIS capabilities from the default disabled?
There is a newer beta BIOS (F8b) available on TweakTown here: http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/28441-gigabyte-latest-beta-bios.html it might be worth trying this, to see if it helps.
What other hardware have you installed?
svcglobal:
Hi absic, thanks for the reply.
Yes, the internal SATA controller is set to RAID and I used for Windows install an optical drive running UEFI boot type, as suggested by Gigabyte support in another forum.
But I must confess that I don't understood the CSM setup found in the BIOS if using W8.
Just updated to F8b BIOS before another unsuccessful install, half hour ago.
Hardware added is very plain, the ADATA SSD and a LG blu-ray only for install plus the i5 CPU and the Corsair memory.
The mobo will be used for robotics management so I must to keep things simple and efficient using the M.2 device.
But with such ugly figures probably I will switch to 2.5" SSD if that M.2 can't do the job. Very sad, it was very expensive.
autotech:
a lot of benchmarks use compressed data. Try running your test with ATTO and see what your results are.
svcglobal:
Here we go with ATTO, thank you.
So, I was running a wrong test? Wow, really I am not used to check hardware since this is not my field expertize.
With these figures the setup is okay for sure, thanks again!
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