Just got my first ssd...

[Gamingfreak]

So i just received my first ssd, an OCZ vertex 2 and i was pretty excited to try it out. So i popped it in and put windows 7 on it then did all the tweaks like turning prefetch off etc. I then decided to try a benchmark so i downloaded the trial of hd tune and ran it. The results were pretty disappointing, first of all it spikes like crazy during the test, by about 100MB/s. Also my average read came out a lot lower than what I've seen in reviews (181MB/s). When i installed it i found out my motherboard doesn't support AHCI and i had read beforehand that ssd's perform better on that so i was expecting it to be a little lower than the reviews i read. But by about 50MB/s? Is it really that bad to be running on IDE instead?

Edit: Just wanted to add that i just ran crystaldiskinfo and the health status is only at 74%, could i have a faulty drive?

 

[Tommy Boy]

Yeah, a lot of them aren't as fast as advertised. I think the only ones that preform like they are supposed to are the Intel ones that cost a pretty penny. I've seen where the OCZ ones aren't all that fast.

 

[Gamingfreak]

The speed isn't bothering me as much as the huge spikes it gets while doing the benchmark. I've been reading some other forum posts about this and someone actually bought a second drive to test it and got much better results. I'm starting to think i got a bad drive.