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Ok,Here are my HD Tune Read results:
Before I flashed the drives were:
Min. Max. Average
112.7MB/s 289.0MB/s 200.9MB/s

After I flashed:
Min. Max. Average
114.7MB/s 345.3MB/s 210.7MB/s

As you all can see I gained some.So here is the Firmware:Adata S599 2.5" SATA II Solid State Drive for MC SSD's.
Here is the link and link to the flash manual:
http://www.adata.com.tw/?action=ss_main

Driver & USER Manual
Easily obtain system drivers and user’s manuals for your ADATA product.
Select Category : Solid State Drive
Select Type : 500 Series
Select Model : Adata S599 2.5" SATA II Solid State Drive
Manual
DescriptionLanguageOSFile Size (KB)UpdateDownload
ADATA S599 Firmware Upgrade User Guide V1.0.pdfEnglishDOS532 KB2011-01-24
Program
DescriptionLanguageOSFile Size (KB)UpdateDownload
ADATA S599 Firmware Upgrade Tool V1.0.rarEnglishDOS84.62 MB2011-01-04
 
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Here are my results on 4 Micro Center SDD 64GB in 4x Raid-0 on Asus Maximus IV Extreme...on the Intel ports. These results are with the latest Adata firmware.

Thank you managerman for your post of your results
 
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The firmware isn't there anymore. There's only firmware for the s596 now
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I have the MicroCenter 64gb and freakin Ubuntu completes the installation to it, but it won't boot. It just hangs at a blinking _

I'm going to try a different OS, and then see if i can find a new bios. The computer boots fine from the Live USB, so if this doesn't work I'll just have to drive up to MC to exchange it.
 
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thanks for that thread. My problem turned out not to be the drive, but rather my processor overheating because the stupid cooler wasn't pushed down all the way
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so I think the installations just weren't completing.

anyway, I decided not to upgrade the firmware and just leave it as is because of that.
 
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I updated to 3.4.6 (from the A-DATA site) and I have no heat problems actually. Works just fine.

@senormoll: Have you tried benching your SSD yet? I compared my scores to some 60GB Sandforce drives in Intel systems and my scores seem a bit slower. I read its probably AMD's southbridges. Post your sig rig. I wanna compare.
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Originally Posted by swiftshinobi;13087600
@senormoll: Have you tried benching your SSD yet? I compared my scores to some 60GB Sandforce drives in Intel systems and my scores seem a bit slower. I read its probably AMD's southbridges. Post your sig rig. I wanna compare.
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This was the second Microcenter SSD I bought. The newest one is in my HTPC, so I haven't benched it as I'm more concerned with the low power than read times. I can tell you from the time the bios passes to Ubuntu until XBMC starts up is seriously like 12 seconds, and that's with a built-in 3 second login delay in case I want to log in as another user.

The system in my sig is my desktop, which uses the same drive for the OS (though bought like 6 months ago). When I benched that in Ubuntu, it achieved ~265/210 R/W or something, so I was more than satisfied. If I get a chance to bench it under Win7 I'll post the results
 
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