http://forums.pcper.com/ en Sat, 25 May 2013 20:17:45 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forums.pcper.com/images/misc/rss.png http://forums.pcper.com/ http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?480728-Best-Way-To-Reformat-A-SSD-Drive&goto=newpost Mon, 20 May 2013 23:18:21 GMT I've got a Samsung 830 (128 GB) that I used to use when I had Win 7 installed. Now that I have Win 8 I want to use that drive for storing my games on. But I want to reformat it before installing any games. What would be the best way to reformat the drive? Using the Windows 8 reformat option would ruin the drive correct? ]]> Storage Forum captkirk http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?480728-Best-Way-To-Reformat-A-SSD-Drive http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?480681-Samsung-840-500Gb-or-Crucial-M500-480Gb&goto=newpost Sat, 04 May 2013 18:23:56 GMT Going to upgrade the SSD in my laptop from a 256Gb to either a Samsung 840 500Gb ($350) or a Crucial M500 480Gb ($385). So given those two... Going to upgrade the SSD in my laptop from a 256Gb to either a Samsung 840 500Gb ($350) or a Crucial M500 480Gb ($385).

So given those two choices, which one would you guys get?

Sam ]]> Storage Forum scajjr http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?480681-Samsung-840-500Gb-or-Crucial-M500-480Gb http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?480653-SSD-seems-to-be-underperforming&goto=newpost Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:54:37 GMT Hmm, just jumped on the SSD bandwagon a few months ago. Kind of trying to figure out how to get it performing like it should. Upon first install with... Hmm, just jumped on the SSD bandwagon a few months ago. Kind of trying to figure out how to get it performing like it should. Upon first install with Win 7 it seemed ok, was maxing out WEI at 7.9 and HD Tach was scoring around 450ish burst.

I had to format and noticed yeah the WEI score was the same but every time I ran HD Tach it was below 400.

Im giving Win 8 another go right now, just finished setting it up and am running every HDD benchmark I could find. Most of them fall behind the review benchies of this SSD... Only Win 8 WEI seems ok at 8.1 and ATTO bench is scoring like it should, the rest, AS SSD bench, Crystal and HD Tune are all falling short. IOPS are wayyyyyyy too low. Im tinkering around with drivers. At first I thought it was cause device manager was showing standard MS AHCI driver. I installed the amd ahci driver and don't really see a difference. I figured the Marvell driver might help but from what Im reading this mobos marvell driver only controls the eSATA ports.

Is there something Im missing? Maybe NCQ isn't on? Didn't AMD enable NCQ on latest drivers if it sees AHCI on in bios?

See system specs below, in the mean time Im gonna try and get this thing up to par. ]]> Storage Forum Poci http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?480653-SSD-seems-to-be-underperforming