Hello.
I just bought a 840 EvO 250 gb. This is my first ssd.
My system is:
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AMD890 chipset + AMD Phenom II X4 955 + 16 GB Kingston HyperX
The motherboard has six SATA 3.0 ports, divided in two different storage controllers: The AMD and a JMicron. I don't know exactly which port belongs to each controller. That information is not available in the board installation manual.
I set all ports do AHCI, installed Win7 x64, and, without installing motherboard's drivers I ran Samsung Magician, the outcome was:
Sata 6 Gbs --> Yes
AHCI Mode --> Yes
I did the performance optimization, set the over provissioning (10% of the drive) and The benchamark was:
Sequential Read/Write 407/431
Ramdom Read/Write 46101/65537
I went on and installed the motherboard drivers. I noticed that both Jmicron and AMD AHCI Drivers installed succesfully, and ran Magician again.
New result:
Sata 6 Gbs --> N/A
AHCI Mode --> Deactivated
The new benchamark was:
Sequential Read/Write 525/506 (a lot better)
Ramdom Read/Write 66735/65550 (Better too, but I think is not enough for this SSD)
Questions:
1 - Is this result good enough?
2 - Why Did magician failed detecting AHCI and Sata 3 after driving installation?
3 - Is magician info reliable? Should I use other software?
4 - What should I do to improve all this.
And where is RAPID? Isn't supposed to be inside magician?
All suggestions and advices are welcome.
Thank you.
I just bought a 840 EvO 250 gb. This is my first ssd.
My system is:
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AMD890 chipset + AMD Phenom II X4 955 + 16 GB Kingston HyperX
The motherboard has six SATA 3.0 ports, divided in two different storage controllers: The AMD and a JMicron. I don't know exactly which port belongs to each controller. That information is not available in the board installation manual.
I set all ports do AHCI, installed Win7 x64, and, without installing motherboard's drivers I ran Samsung Magician, the outcome was:
Sata 6 Gbs --> Yes
AHCI Mode --> Yes
I did the performance optimization, set the over provissioning (10% of the drive) and The benchamark was:
Sequential Read/Write 407/431
Ramdom Read/Write 46101/65537
I went on and installed the motherboard drivers. I noticed that both Jmicron and AMD AHCI Drivers installed succesfully, and ran Magician again.
New result:
Sata 6 Gbs --> N/A
AHCI Mode --> Deactivated
The new benchamark was:
Sequential Read/Write 525/506 (a lot better)
Ramdom Read/Write 66735/65550 (Better too, but I think is not enough for this SSD)
Questions:
1 - Is this result good enough?
2 - Why Did magician failed detecting AHCI and Sata 3 after driving installation?
3 - Is magician info reliable? Should I use other software?
4 - What should I do to improve all this.
And where is RAPID? Isn't supposed to be inside magician?
All suggestions and advices are welcome.
Thank you.