Core SSD successes, which chipset you using?

[Tony]

For those without issues, please post what chipset is on the board you are using, which board and which bios on the board?

You can vote more than once for different chipsets if you have seen good results with more than one. Also vote in the Poll and choose other if you are using a raid card.

[Cooperdale]

OCZ core v1 raid 0 performance is quite solid on a Marvell controller, which is an on-board add-in controller on the P5E64 WS Evolution board from Asus.

[Turismon]

question is, does anyone WITHOUT raid have the drive run right?

[eva2000]

Gigabyte EP45 Extreme rev 1.0
F6H bios
4x 32GB OCZ Core SSD single or raid 0 on ICH10R
WinXP Pro SP3 Nlite with integrated Intel Storage Manger 8.5.0.1032 raid drivers

http://i4memory.com/showthread.php?t=8944

Haven't tried it on F6K bios yet as testing a few E8600 cpus.





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[blademan123]

Adaptec 5805 SATA II Raid Pci-E card
3 X 128GB V1 OCZ Core drives
Vista 64 BIT (inc SP1) media
Striker II Extreme 790i motherboard

Latest drivers and BIOS used from the Adaptec site.
No issues with creating the raid array.

Read performance is good: 350 - 360MB/s sustained

Write performance: No stats but generally perceived as being good.(Real world use)

Multi tasking - It is still possible to get a delay of a few seconds when really intensive tasks are run together. (for example turn off indexing, let that task run then open up Firefox; this will give you a small delay.)

No file corruption issues todate.


Other Issues / Notes:

Not related to OCZ but worth bearing in mind if your're thinking of getting an Adaptec card; they run hot. Ensure you have good case airflow.

All 3 drives had file corruption issues when used on other SATA controllers.

System Restore had to be turned off under the current installation as this was causing major problems installing software. I've not had time to investigate this further and don't plan too!

[Garret]

So far no problems yet.

OCZ Core 64GB
Biostar Tpower
chipset ICHR10
IDE Enhanced
WinXP SP2

write cache disabled
index seach disabled
system recovery disabled

HDtune : 110mb/s read and 70mb/s write
Atto: 120mb/s read and 75mb/s write

Also tested with Vista SP1 and read/write was 5~10mb/s higher in HDtune :?:

Index search disabled
superfetch disabled
write cache disabled
System recovery disabled


edit 1: changed cluster size to 8k and write speed is 80mb/s and read is 130mb/s.



edit 2: Vista says c: is dirty, so everytime vista boots up, chkdsk is going to run.
I disabled chkdsk in command prompt window with the following command ; fsutil dirty query c:

[Turismon]

alright, so we have all raid users and one person that only cares how high his atto score gets which means nothing . GG OCZ!

Has anyone actually fixed a stuttering issue that has had one with an RMA or any other method? I haven't seen any.

[Praz]

DFI P35, X38 and X48 (both DDR2 and DDR3 board). BIOS issue. Neither XP nor Vista will install if set to IDE mode. AHCI and RAID with the drive set as a non-member works fine. Performance is slower with AHCI then RAID. Running with P45 chipset now. Will update with results.

[Griff805]

So far no problems yet.

edit 2: Vista says c: is dirty, so everytime vista boots up, chkdsk is going to run.
I disabled chkdsk in command prompt window with the following command ; fsutil dirty query c:

I would say that is a big problem right there--

Just because you turn off chkdsk doesn't mean there isn't a problem. Mine would run chkdsk, then would go into windows without a problem. Atleast for a while. Then, it bit the dust-

So, I would not be suprised if in the next few days your windows install crashes.

Let us know-

[Garret]

I know it's a problem, but I'm testing to see how long it takes when vista crashes, if it crashes. I will let you know when that happens.

I just posted my results to help OCZ to find the problems they have with the ssd's

Currently I'm testing different options/services enabled or disabled to find out what the problem is.

[Vinneh]

I have successfully installed XP Pro 32bit on a Core V2 30GB on Asus Maximus Formula ICH9 chipset - no issues so far.
However, my original intention was to create a RAID pair with 2x 30GB but the XP install bombs out at 10% done in the initial "blue screen" copying files stage. This behaviour is the same when I try and install Vista64 onto the RAID.

[RyderOCZ]

Guys.. please keep the discussion elsewhere, this is a poll thread for the topic in the title only.

Thank you.

[lsevald]

Asus Maximus II Formula (P45) BIOS 801
2x30GB OCZ Core V2 RAID 0 on ICH10R
Vista 64 SP1 w/Intel Storage Manger 8.5.0.1032

[heavyharmonies]

64GB OCZ Core installed in an Asus eeePC 1000H. No problems at all.

According to the device manager, the controller is ICH7-M:

"Intel(R) 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller - 27C4"

XP Home SP3

Bios message:

ASUS 1000H ACPI BIOS Revision 0901
Core Version: 0901
Build Date: 07/11/08
EC Firmware Version: EPCB-014

[Garret]

Update:

I noticed that when the ssd is writing alot, like installing programs, the computer becomes very unresponsive and slow when you try to start up other programs.
So simultaneous writing and reading is a big problem for the ssd, which is very irritating.