MS AHCi Vs AMD Drivers

[themaster1]

I have installed the new AMD drivers (they weren't available previously for my board 970 Pro3 rev1.0)

AMD drivers:


Microsoft drivers:


I don't find the results fantastic (slightly better write speed but a decrease in read speed... that's puzzling)
This board is Sata3 (6gb/s), the ssd aswell

Please offer your thoughts

[parsec]

Re: MS AHCi Vs AMD Drivers

What SSD is that? Reminds me of the Kingston V300, really certain variations of it seen recently, that are using asynchronous NAND chips that perform at a much lower speed.

Otherwise the +/- few MB read and write speeds are normal for AS SSD, particularly for an OS drive.

Try running the ATTO benchmark for results closer to the SSD's specs.

[profJim]

Re: MS AHCi Vs AMD Drivers



Results are similar to my former OCZ Agility2 60GB ssd with asynchronous Nand using sata2 bandwidth on my P35-DS3L.

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Re: MS AHCi Vs AMD Drivers

Prof Jim, you are right, the Transcend SSD320 series uses asynchronous NAND, as discussed in this review:

AnandTech | Transcend SSD320 & SSD720 (256GB) Review

A quote from this review:

Asynchronous NAND has an enormous impact on incompressible sequential read speed as you can see above. The SSD320 and OCZ's Agility 3, another async NAND based SandForce SSD, perform poorly in this test. It's not a bug or error in our testing as I checked the product specs for the SSD320 and they specified that the maximum read speed for AS-SSD is 220MB/s. When using slower NAND, the performance will be handicapped in scenarios where the NAND is the bottleneck. In this case, the controller and SATA 6Gbps bus are capable of faster throughput but the NAND can't keep up.

Using AS SSD to test that SSD is the worst case situation. The SandForce SSD controller has lower write performance with the all incompressible data that is used by AS SSD. Add to that the asynchronous NAND, and the results in the screenshot are typical. Note that this review tests the 256GB version of the SSD320, the smaller capacity (64GB) models will have lower performance.

[themaster1]

Re: MS AHCi Vs AMD Drivers

Alright so there's is no doubt about it now then (it sucks). Well that was my first ssd, it worked ok so far and didn't pay too much but still. I guess i'll take a samsung pro soon !

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Re: MS AHCi Vs AMD Drivers

Some things to consider, most of the read and write speeds of your SSD are far faster than any HDD. Most people just look at the sequential read and write speeds, but the 4K speeds are really more important.

This is the results for a Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM HDD in AS SSD:



The read access time of this HDD is about 100 times slower than your SSD. The write access time is about 30 times slower than you SSD. The 4K file size read speed is under one MB/s.

As I said earlier, Google on ATTO, download and run that benchmark, since it is not the worst case test that AS SSD is. Real world data is not the same as what is used by AS SSD.