Microcenter 64GB SSD Test

[Eddie313]

Well I finally went out and got a ssd drive didn't want to spend a lot for my first time. So I went to my local microcenter and picked it a Microcenter 64GB ssd drive for 99 bucks.
I ran a few test's and thought I would post the test results.

I just have it as a boot and small programs and install my games on my raptors


Also its on a AMD MSI 790FX GD70 motherboard.





After 12 days of running the drive now starting to notice a slow down In performance. Also i checked and trim cmd and said its working.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

i'm not educated on the speeds of that drive but i remember recently reading that an AMD south-bridge was slowing down a 40g Vertex 2 SSD... i think i read that on a New Egg review.. the review was pretty thorough - not sure which south-bridge it was...

 

[Soulkeeper]

Nice read speeds. Write looks a little slow, but I guess that's likely intended as a boot drive. G2 series ? is that an intel drive branded as microcenter ?

 

[Eddie313]

Nice read speeds. Write looks a little slow, but I guess that's likely intended as a boot drive. G2 series ? is that an intel drive branded as microcenter ?

Yep it's the G2 series.

Yeah the drive would run faster on a Intel/Mobo

 

[gamefreakgcb]

The Microcenter G2 series is a Sandforce chipset. Its a rebranded ADATA-S599 drive. I have one here in my desktop and am moving it into my Thinkpad. Pretty good speeds.

 

[Eddie313]

Already starting to slow down i added another benchmark after 2 weeks.

 

[hulkhelton]

god that seems like it is degrading fast, i was thinking about getting one of these tomorrow.

 

[Eddie313]

Yeah I think so to just going to return it, either it sucks or there is something wrong with it. Its not running like it was when i bought it couple of weeks ago. Just going to stay with my raptors for now.

 

[razel]

You changed your controller driver or moved the SSD. Look at what AS SSD has detected: amdsata to pciide. However it looks more like you turned ACHI off since the 4k 64 threads read speed is almost the same as a single thread.

 

[Eddie313]

You changed your controller driver or moved the SSD. Look at what AS SSD has detected: amdsata to pciide. However it looks more like you turned ACHI off since the 4k 64 threads read speed is almost the same as a single thread.

Nope ACHI is set in bios never changed all that is just amd drivers i updated them now running 10.12. I ran the test before i installed the drivers to make sure was getting the same and i was.

 

[God Mode]

Can you run crystal disk info and post a pic? http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

 

[Eddie313]

Can you run crystal disk info and post a pic? http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

Done

 

[hulkhelton]

damn

 

[dmoney1980]

I bought the same exact Micro Center SSD a few weeks ago, seems to run fine for me. Sure, it may not feel as fast as other SSD's to me but it's a HUGE upgrade over my 7200 HDD. Now if your drive feels slow for you, I would exchange it for a new one and see how that works out for you.

Link to what I posted when I first got it: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2124142&highlight=

I ran an AS SSD bench today, here are the results:



Funny how different benchmark tools give you different results. Bottom line your drive should not have that big of a performance drop. Try running crystal disk mark and see what you get. AS SSD is a good benchmark but I have heard people stating that it's not very consistent with its data.

 

[Patrickz0rs]

What does this SSD get on Windows Experience Rating? For $99 I would love to see that stupid 5.9 go away.

 

[dmoney1980]

What does this SSD get on Windows Experience Rating? For $99 I would love to see that stupid 5.9 go away.

I get 7.4

 

[brianlewis]

New 3.4.6 Firmware available for the MicroCenter 64gb/AData 64gb S599

http://www.adata.com.tw/index.php?action=product_download&cid=3&piid=33

These drives are 60GB btw, format out to 55GB, a true 64gb would format out to 62.5gb (divided by 1024 since drive manufacturers advertise a GB as 1000 megs not 1024 megs)

Performance isn't nearly as close as the OCZ Vertex 2 / Mushkin Deluxe but its decent. OCZ/Mushkin have twice the access time performance and more consistent speed tests between Everest and ATTO.

Everest Disk Benchmark
Linear Read Middle : 155.0MB/s
Random Read : 211.7MB/s
Buffered Read : 233.5MB/sec
Average Read Access: 0.16 ms
ATTO : 233mb/read, 239mb/write

 

[Ataristic]

New 3.4.6 Firmware available for the MicroCenter 64gb/AData 64gb S599

http://www.adata.com.tw/index.php?action=product_download&cid=3&piid=33

These drives are 60GB btw, format out to 55GB, a true 64gb would format out to 62.5gb (divided by 1024 since drive manufacturers advertise a GB as 1000 megs not 1024 megs)

Performance isn't nearly as close as the OCZ Vertex 2 / Mushkin Deluxe but its decent. OCZ/Mushkin have twice the access time performance and more consistent speed tests between Everest and ATTO.

Everest Disk Benchmark
Linear Read Middle : 155.0MB/s
Random Read : 211.7MB/s
Buffered Read : 233.5MB/sec
Average Read Access: 0.16 ms
ATTO : 233mb/read, 239mb/write

The 599 series is actually slower on purpose, as to extend the life cycle of the chips, still plenty fast when compared to mechanicals. and for $99, it is a good deal unless blazing speed is a must.

 

[Emulex]

my 120gb sandforce callisto deluxe formats out to exactly twice this.

I think all sandforce use this much reserve.

There is an option called write back cache without battery - it improves speed greatly at risk of catastrophic loss - some folks turn it on - ADATA does not. it's pretty obvious the unit gets about 50K IOPS with it on and about 15-20K with it off.

 

[pdavea]

New 3.4.6 Firmware available for the MicroCenter 64gb/AData 64gb S599

http://www.adata.com.tw/index.php?action=product_download&cid=3&piid=33


Have you actually done this?
I get no drives found even when I run as Administrator.

 

[pdavea]

Sandforce does write throttling. AS-SSD & CDM both write LOTS of uncompressable data with default settings. Run a few of those and you'll use up all the on-deck NAND which slows you down and then the controller starts braking to preserve NAND life. There's lots of good stuff in the OCZ forums.

 

[Emulex]

the sandforce pre-allocates blocks as well so drives with more reserve will perform better longer

 

[Gooberlx2]

New 3.4.6 Firmware available for the MicroCenter 64gb/AData 64gb S599

http://www.adata.com.tw/index.php?action=product_download&cid=3&piid=33


Have you actually done this?
I get no drives found even when I run as Administrator.

Worked for me. Strangely, my laptop went BSOD after the flash was complete, during the reboot process and wouldn't reboot afterwards. Had to turn it entirely off then back on. Everything works fine after that. CrystalDisk showed everything as OK with the new firmware loaded, Win7 HDD benchmark shows 7.5.

 

[Emulex]

this is sandforce's reference package. if you download (any other sandforce driver) you'll notice its the same thing. a pkg and a exe. sandforce is like the go-bots of the ssd industry. shenzen special.