Last November, I bought a fast Corsair Force GT Sata-III SSD, even though I only have Sata-II ports on my MoBo (couldn't pass up the sale.)
I've been running that way for months, achieving 273MB/s reads and 241MB/s writes.
Wanting to take better advantage of the speeds this drive is capable of, I purchased an ASMedia ASM1061 x1 Sata-III card to use in my 64bit Win7 rig.
Using the default MS driver, my Read speeds improved by as much as 35% (405MB/s), but my write speeds fell though the floor (down 60% to roughly 100MB/s.). So I tried the driver provided on the supplied CD and got even worse results (the supplied driver appears to be 32bit.) Disabling my MoBo's AHCI mode and relying instead on the cards own AHCI firmware improves things a tiny bit, maybe 2%.
I have a triple-boot system with XP and Linux on it as well. MS does not have XP drivers for this card, so I had to use the supplied driver and the results were HORRIBLE (159r/99w).
Linux recognizes the drive, but I can't find a Linux benchmark that can do WRITE tests to a formatted "non-boot" drive.
Searching around online, I can't find a newer/better ASM1061 driver. And the only "confirmation" that it might be a driver issue is a YouTube video of a guy putting the same card in a MAC and getting FAR better results (plus the fact my boot times are exactly the same with the card as before.)
Can anyone confirm my Read/Write performance with this card is a driver issue and not a hardware one?
I've been running that way for months, achieving 273MB/s reads and 241MB/s writes.
Wanting to take better advantage of the speeds this drive is capable of, I purchased an ASMedia ASM1061 x1 Sata-III card to use in my 64bit Win7 rig.
Using the default MS driver, my Read speeds improved by as much as 35% (405MB/s), but my write speeds fell though the floor (down 60% to roughly 100MB/s.). So I tried the driver provided on the supplied CD and got even worse results (the supplied driver appears to be 32bit.) Disabling my MoBo's AHCI mode and relying instead on the cards own AHCI firmware improves things a tiny bit, maybe 2%.
I have a triple-boot system with XP and Linux on it as well. MS does not have XP drivers for this card, so I had to use the supplied driver and the results were HORRIBLE (159r/99w).
Linux recognizes the drive, but I can't find a Linux benchmark that can do WRITE tests to a formatted "non-boot" drive.
Searching around online, I can't find a newer/better ASM1061 driver. And the only "confirmation" that it might be a driver issue is a YouTube video of a guy putting the same card in a MAC and getting FAR better results (plus the fact my boot times are exactly the same with the card as before.)
Can anyone confirm my Read/Write performance with this card is a driver issue and not a hardware one?