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ADATA XPG SX900 128GB SSD Full Review - Low Cost SandForce
Yapt v0.3
Yapt (yet another performance test) is a benchmark recommended by a pair of drive manufacturers and was incredibly difficult to locate as it hasn't been updated or used in quite some time. That doesn't make it irrelevant by any means though, as the benchmark is quite useful. It creates a test file of about 100 MB in size and runs both random and sequential read and write tests with it while changing the data I/O size in the process. The results are a good look at overall drive performance.
Yapt shows most all STA 6Gb/sec units saturating the interface, save the Samsung unit, which does not play nicely with this particular test.
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Firmware 5.0.2a still has issues and they were resolved in 5.0.3. The newest SandForce firmware is 5.0.5 and it's very good. Too bad ADATA can't get their firmware act together.
I have tested my SSD with newest SandForce firmware 5.0.5
Having troube on that one as well. B-S-O-D :(
You guys can download IOMeter 2010 from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/iometer/files/iometer-devel/1.1.0-rc1/
Play around with it and tested 4K random write via IOMeter 2010
See if you have same test result
32G SSD => BSOD, 0xF4
64G SSD => BSOD, 0xF4
bty, can someone tell me where we can download 5.0 B?
One of my friend said 5.0 B will be available shortly.
Is this truth?
I think I'm going to get this SSD for my next build, looks promising and good for the price! I'm a casual PC gamer!
ADATA just releases updated firmware for SX900 SSD drive. It is now at Firmware 5.0.7a
http://www.adata-group.com/index.php?action=ss_main&page=ss_content_driv...
Adata Firmware 5.0.7a release notes do not metion anything about TRIM being fixed... WTF?
"ADATA first with SandForce 5.0.7a firmware, TRIM enabled for ADATA SSDs"
This is the headline I've been seeing, I assume that TRIM issue have been addressed and that this update has fixes found in previous firmware except the one that was pulled from breaking TRIM.
Purchased 2 drives in January 3013. Went online to get info on how to properly setup the OS (enable TRIM etc). Also used the wipe free space feature of ccleaner. CrystalMark always gave me good results except for write speed which is around 250 instead of 500 like the read speed.
Bottom line, I had the expected performance even without this firmware. I'll install it tonight but cant see myself getting much of a boost (write speed).
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