couple questions i am still trying to figure out how to update firmware and or if i need to these drives were packed in feb 2010, intel toolbox don't work.
any sugestions? i am still new to the ssd world here but have read alot about tweaking and raidning etc. so here is what you wanted to see, any help or advice will be taken. thanks
Originally Posted by Drug
2x vertex in raid 0 smashes that..
Proof or it didn't happen....
I've run 3x Vertex's in Raid-0 and did a little under 620-avg. read
OP, I wouldnt mind seeing benches WITHOUT Write-back cache enabled.
Honestly, I'd avoid WBC if I were you. I found myself losing drive stability after a (rare but not unheard of) system crash and having to reinstall everything. Plus, I actually boot 2-seconds (from button press) faster w/o Raid-0 on the SSD's wince I dont have any RAID drivers do load.
The answer to your intel toolbox question is since you are in a raid array and we know trim does not pass through raid and the intel toolbox is to manual way to use the trim and maintain the drive. Pretty much no trim in raid so toolbox will not function in your array.
Thats true about trim not going throught the raid controller. Not sure if intel has any updates to include garbage collection like the vertex drives. GC is basically firmware level trim.
The answer to your intel toolbox question is since you are in a raid array and we know trim does not pass through raid and the intel toolbox is to manual way to use the trim and maintain the drive. Pretty much no trim in raid so toolbox will not function in your array.
thaks i was reading intels site and just found that out. cheers
is there a non destructive way to check or flash firmware by breaking up my raid and being able put back together or should i just make a disk image then break up the array to run toolbox?
I had the same issue you have run into. When you use these drives in RAID they are presented to the system as the raid device, not the actual drive. This means the firmware upgrade tool (as well as Intel SSD Toolbox) don't actually see the Intel SSD's.
In order to interact with them, as you have found out, you'll need to break them free of the raid.
I did this by using my bios to turn off the RAID functionality of my controller - I switched it to AHCI then booted to the firmware update tool and let it do its thing for each drive. The firmware updater will check your current version so it's safe enough to run whatever firmware you are currently running.
After I finished, I returned the contoller to RAID and booted like normal. My array was still in tact and booted right up with no issues.
No sorry, you're wrong there, if you check which speeds actually matter for an os drive you'll see that all the vertex drives only excel in sequential read/write speeds. The only time you use those speeds are in benchmarks and when transferring large files (1gb+) the real speed indicator is the random 4k read/write speeds, of which the intel ssds are the best.
To op: I have an intel raid also, 2 drives only, and while the intel toolbox doesn't work on raided drives you should still be able to click on the graphic representing the individual drives in the rapid storage technology icon and see the firmware number. Current firmware is 2CV102HD
I use perfectdisk 11 ( pretty much the same as diskkeeper) and it keeps my raid array in perfect condition using the consolidate free space option for ssds. good luck
Possible for you to post the AS SSD Benchmark (download) results?
Cheers
PS: was considering putting together an AS SSD Benchmark result thread... like the crystal one...
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