RevoDrive x2 on a GA-X58A-UD3R

[Aussie Allan]

          Update

  Couldn't resist before the weekend!  Had a wee play doing a simple install as the OS/Boot drive........Not quite performing as I'm sure it will end up!

  A couple of things that surprised me were, it indexed in windows at 7.9 but on AS SSD bench was reading @ 635Mb/s  but writing @ only 145Mb/s.....Huh!....and still gave me a 7.9!

 Toolbox will not recognise the drive so will not initiate.........my gut tells me I need to flash to 1.33 but the only Tutorial I can find (OCZ forum/support) uses a Big USB drive with Ubunti with the drivers loaded on...........bugger that!........I'm flat out coping with "Wundows".

 My intention tonight is to pop in a drive and load revo drivers and Windows to it as a boot and then reformat the revo/format/Flash from windows/rebuild back to Raid0 then bench again.....if it maxes out as it should...........reinstall OS to it and turn it back into a boot drive again........Wuddaya-think!

 Aussie Allan

[oggmonster]

iirc 7.9 is the highest number you can get on Win7 index. Any idea why the write speed isn't what it should be?

[Dark Mantis]

Yes the write speed is always much lower than the read speed but that is incredibly low. 

[oggmonster]

Yeah swear their write speed in AS SSD was something along the 300mb speed?

Perhaps bios update?

[Aussie Allan]

 The only thing I did very different was drop the strip size down to 32K just to see what if!  Won't really know until I can get into the toolbox me thinks!
 
 I've got the board throttled back to stock so there's no issues there although truth be told that was /is the first time I've used AS-SSD as well.......is there a better SSD benchmark out there that people like to use and is well recognised?

[oggmonster]

On most of the revo x2 reviews ive seen AS SSD has been pretty much that shows up on 100% of reviews.

[Aussie Allan]

 Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm! there's another quick question, ... When I do the flash do I do it once or does each unit (4) need to be flashed ??

 Aussie Allan

[oggmonster]

Pass.. I was hoping you could answer all these questions so when (if) I eventually get one then you would have done all the ground work for me

[Aussie Allan]

  Dooh!

[Dark Mantis]

I can't say I know either but I would have thought it would only be the once.

AS SSD is the recognised benchmark for SSDs.

[Aussie Allan]

 Looks like I am in fact the Guinea Pig,  no probs ,...Ill keep you informed ... Oh yeh! ...I like Scotch!

Aussie Allan

[oggmonster]

 Looks like I am in fact the Guinea Pig,  no probs ,...Ill keep you informed ... Oh yeh! ...I like Scotch!

Aussie Allan

I'll see to it that you're well stocked on scotch... eggs

[Aussie Allan]

  Mmmmmmmm! Egg and Marvell chips!.........Nuther question Marster!!......Never though about it till now but the Windows 7-64 install took up a tad over 50GBs ,... does that sound correct........The 100GB Revo formatted down to 93GB to begin with.

[oggmonster]

Ive used 49gb on my Win7 Pro x64, but about 15gb of that is games + other rubbish. You'll just have to be abit strict what you install!

[Aussie Allan]

  I love the internet.........Apparently Sanforce and AS SSD don't  get along very well,  Numerous manufactures recommend ATTO!

 Have a look now ...and this is with no tweaking , bog stock setting and no firmware update as yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Aussie Allan

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