Post your GSkill drive benchmark result here please

[FaNIX]

Make sure you run the benchmark with full power management mode, so plug in your power cord. Most notebooks revert back to SATA1 when on batery to save power...

[zsnow]

Make sure you run the benchmark with full power management mode, so plug in your power cord. Most notebooks revert back to SATA1 when on batery to save power...

yes. i'm sure the power is plugged.
thanks

Added:
Just saw people have the same problem from mac user forum. Looks the new macbook cap the sata 150mb . will update more later

[FaNIX]

Well, I know nothing about mac, so can't give you any more advice

[astrocramp]

Here are my results from my 2 Falcon 128GB drives. I am using a gigabyte x48-DS5 onboard intel raid. I did have problem with the iastor.sys driver causing errors but i eventually fixed them and got these results.

Flip - which Intel Matrix drivers are you using, and what block size did you use to run the test? I'm running an Asus P5E-VM HDMI mobo with Intel G35 chipset, win7 x64, and 8.8.0.1009 Intel Matrix Storage drivers (the latest on their website). I got some noisy results with HD Tune, not bad but not 500MB/s like yours. What's strange is the burst speed and CPU utilization (negative??) - maybe that means it's a win7 incompatibility, or that the x48 is just a better chipset.

[nascasho]

Yay me.

[rdc5168]

ASUS NOTEBOOK F8SP (Intel T9300/4G RAM/ATI HD3650)
Windows Vista x64 Ultimate
Falcon 128GB (F/W 1571) Disk 0; Bootable

Execute wiper.exe will destroy Vista x64 system,I had try again again and again ,BUT re-boot fail after executed wiper.exe.

[Michou]

Yeahhh, so happy. this SSD is awesome. before I had a Raptor and the difference is like day and night.

[ptah]

GA-EX58-UD3R
i7 920 @ 2.67GHz
6GB G.Skill PI
Windows 7 64-Bit
G.Skill Falcon 128GB
1571 Firmware
Didn't use wiper.exe

and i have no idea whether it's AHCI or IDE. and idk what they are. how do i check this?

[ptah]

GA-EX58-UD5
i7 920 @ 3.36GHz
6GB Patriot Viper
Windows XP 32-Bit (Not aligned)
G.Skill Falcon 128GB
Shipping Firmware 1571
A week old, been using the wiper.exe
IDE

hey man, how do you check whether its IDE or AHCI?

thanks

[Godsfist]

hey man, how do you check whether its IDE or AHCI?

thanks

In your bios under integrated peripherals, it's the 1st option I think

If you haven't set it in the bios then it's probably IDE

[ptah]

ah thanks. just enabled ahci

[razerza]

It's quite clear that performance can be rather erratic. There is no clear pattern between 64GB or 128Gb posted so far.

Tonight I started playing with differences between IDE and AHCI. After enabling AHCI as per the Microsoft Knowledgebase (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976) things became interesting.

1. Access time increased from 0.1ms to 0.2ms
2. CPU Utilisation increased
3. Burst rate dropped
4. Speeds dropped
5. I switched back to IDE to see the difference
6. Performance became erratic with the minimum dropping from 190 MB/s to 61MB/s and the HDTune graph was all over the place.
7. I ran my first TRIM command as an experiment
8. Mimimum transfer speed increased to 71 MB/s, maximum jumped to almost 240 MB/s and burst jumped to almost 188 MB/s. This is under IDE mode with access time back to 0.1ms and CPU Utilisation at 1.4%
9. Switched back to ACHI to notice slower access time, burst rate and increase CPU Utilisation. Minimum jumped up to 97 MB/s but maximum was down to 218 MB/s.
10. I then ran my second TRIM command and under AHCI the minimum speed under AHCI went back up to 190MB/s but maximum speed will not go over 218MB/s. Access time remains at 0.2ms with higher CPU Utilisation.

After the 1571 BIOS flash, the access time under ACHI mode has improved to 0.1ms again.

[ptah]

After the 1571 BIOS flash, the access time under ACHI mode has improved to 0.1ms again.

hey, when i TRIM, is it okay if my OS is in my SSD? and do i have to execute my wiper from a different disk drive or from my SSD?

[razerza]

That's the only way you can do it. (Just dump the wiper.exe into your root C:\ and run it) To clarify, the Wiper utility must be on the SSD you are currently using.

Make a backup just in case...there have been some reports of data being wiped.

[ace-a-rue]

two 128 gb Falcon drives in Raid 0, 128K stripe on the ICH10R chipset.