OCZ core V2 60 GB on various configs and various controllers Reviewed - **56K WARNING
I have put my new system together(Rampage extreme based) and decided to write up a review with the OCZ core V2 on the ICH9R,Areca 1231-ML, 790i SLI MCP. This will be done on both XP and Vista ultimate x64.I am also thinking about testing it in non-windows environment namely Ubuntu linux,if time permits. This will throw some more light on whether windows isthe culprit.The problem with testing in linux is that I am not that familiar with Linux and the benchmarking programs that run under linux. I might have to do some more research on this.
I know about the AT review, which narrowed the problem down to the JMicron controllers on these, but I think these paired up with a good caching controller like the Areca will be kick ass. I might be totally wrong about this, in which case I intend to promptly return this to the place where I brought this from, even though I will be charged 15% restocking and then wait for a better product.Since I also have a day job to take care of, this might take some days to finish off, so please be patient and bear with me.
Without further adieu, I present you with the components that this review will be run on.
Test Setup
Rampage Extreme Motherboard -(X48/ICH9R)
QX9650 on True Black with S-Flex push/pull @ 3.01 GHZ
Gskill 2x1GB BHZ DDR3-1600
Samusung F1 1 TB - OS drive
Sapphire 4870x2 - Catalyst 8.8
Samsung DVD SATA drive
Corsair HX1000
4x OCZ core v2 60GB
Areca 1231 ML PCI-E x8 - 2GB Raid card
Windows XP Professional SP3
Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1
Ubuntu 8.04 x64(maybe)
Benchmarking programs
HDtach 3.0.4.0
HDtune pro trial version
Everest Ultimate 4.60.1500
IOMeter 2006.07.27
Various Configurations
For all the below configurations, the OS will be on the samsung F1 on ICH9R, so that the write tests can be performed on the SSDs. Also, the SSD drives will be unformatted.
1x OCZ Core 2 60 GB on ICH9R - IDE mode
1x OCZ Core 2 60 GB on ICH9R - Raid mode
4X OCZ Core 2 60 GB on ICH9R Raid 0 -Raid mode
1x OCZ Core 2 60 GB on ARC-1231ML
4x OCZ Core 2 60 GB on ARC-1231ML Raid 0
Some images as an appetizer
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/6994/dsc00331vo6.jpg
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/9193/dsc00335oq5.jpg
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/5940/dsc00336li2.jpg
Some early results on ICH9R IDE mode with 1 drive
All these tests were done on XP SP3 with all updates
HDTach 32MB zone
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3...mbzoneset5.jpg
HD tune Read
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6...unereadjh6.jpg
HD tune Write
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/4...newriters4.jpg
Everest Read Suite
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/7...adsuitecf1.jpg
Everest Linear Write
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2...arwriteig9.jpg
Everest Random Write
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/2...omwritejz6.jpg
Now for the IOMeter test. All the IOMeter tests below were done with 64K size and 25 outstanding IOs and the screen shots were taken after atleast 5 minutes into the test.
64K Sequential Read
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/4...equentimh5.jpg
64K Random Read
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/9...andomreki0.jpg
64K Sequential Write
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/3...equentifs7.jpg
64K Random Write
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8...andomwrlw8.jpg
Now for some one drive ICH9R raid mode test.
The Raid on the ICH9R are having interesting results. Stay tuned.
The ICH9R Raid mode was almost the same with 1 SSD. But when I put 4 of the SSDs in Raid 0, the write performsnce was pretty bad. I used a 64K stripse size.
Screen shots if anybody is interested.
I am going to test it on the RAID card now.
