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- Oct 27, 2008
Hey guys, this may sound like a noob question but oh well, here I go
I have the Asus Rampage3 Extreme which uses the Marvell 88SE9128 SATA3 controller which has some known issues with the Sandforce SF-22xx controllers like the one on my Corsair Force Series GT 120GB SATA 3 6Gb/s SSD (555 MB/s sequential read — 515 MB/s sequential write).
My read/write speeds were about 400's/200's MB/sec so I tried just about everything to resolve the issue (different cables, different ports, multiple driver revisions, I also tried updating the firmware (did not help), BIOS updates, even followed YellowbeardXMS' suggested resolution flow chart with no luck.
So then I backed up the drive by creating an image with Acronis and secure erased the drive and reimaged it. To my dissmay the read speeds dropped even lower, to the 200's. At this point I RMA'ed the drive as it was practically brand new still.
On to my question....
I'll have a new SSD soon and want to know if some of the issues related to my performance drop could have been carried over in the image or not? Do you think reimaging the drive will result with the same performance issues as observed before or was that a fault with the drive its self?
I suppose it wont take long to install the image and find out the hard way but wanted some feed back first because a full reinstall would be a pain in the ***.
I have the Asus Rampage3 Extreme which uses the Marvell 88SE9128 SATA3 controller which has some known issues with the Sandforce SF-22xx controllers like the one on my Corsair Force Series GT 120GB SATA 3 6Gb/s SSD (555 MB/s sequential read — 515 MB/s sequential write).
My read/write speeds were about 400's/200's MB/sec so I tried just about everything to resolve the issue (different cables, different ports, multiple driver revisions, I also tried updating the firmware (did not help), BIOS updates, even followed YellowbeardXMS' suggested resolution flow chart with no luck.
So then I backed up the drive by creating an image with Acronis and secure erased the drive and reimaged it. To my dissmay the read speeds dropped even lower, to the 200's. At this point I RMA'ed the drive as it was practically brand new still.
On to my question....
I'll have a new SSD soon and want to know if some of the issues related to my performance drop could have been carried over in the image or not? Do you think reimaging the drive will result with the same performance issues as observed before or was that a fault with the drive its self?
I suppose it wont take long to install the image and find out the hard way but wanted some feed back first because a full reinstall would be a pain in the ***.
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