Anyone overclock their SSD yet?

[tomb18]

Ok, in the old days....(80286!) we used to do the overclocks the old fashion way....unsoldering the crystal and soldering in a new one. Has anyone done something similar to the memory system on the SSD's? Or am I completely off based here?

[pjkenned]

Why? Risk data corruption for a few MB/s? Not to mention that you then have to worry about the SATA interface, and what have you. Unlike a CPU/Memory overclock that gives you more performance with a very small data loss chance and higher lock-up chance (which can be remedied by a reboot), potentially corrupting a hard drive can be disastrous.

That being said... who is going to do it? :-)

[Boogerlad]

aren't we limited by sata bus already? Might help random read/write though.

[tomb18]

Why? Risk data corruption for a few MB/s? Not to mention that you then have to worry about the SATA interface, and what have you. Unlike a CPU/Memory overclock that gives you more performance with a very small data loss chance and higher lock-up chance (which can be remedied by a reboot), potentially corrupting a hard drive can be disastrous.

That being said... who is going to do it? :-)

No kidding...
But if someone does it...I said it first!

[NapalmV5]

lol and i say controller recap first!

1210/1231/3520/5805 all recap candidates

as for crytals.. 500$ crytal should offer extra ssd performance lol

[HDCHOPPER]

Ok, in the old days....(80286!) we used to do the overclocks the old fashion way....unsoldering the crystal and soldering in a new one. Has anyone done something similar to the memory system on the SSD's? Or am I completely off based here?

LOL it's been a long time since eye have done that !
but should start with ocing the pcie buss first , thought about setting buss to 110 to start with .
then clean partition and align & formatt thier

[EniGmA1987]

Would upping the PCI-E bus even do anything for the speed of the SSD?

And does anyone even know if OCing the PCI-E bus could cause the same data corruption on SSDs? I would assume so, but maybe not...

[TuKo]

I went from 586MB/s to 626Mb/s with my 4x SLC RAID0 on Areca 1210 by overclocking my PCI-E from 100 to 116MHz.

[HDCHOPPER]

yes have heard of as much as pcie of124 so far .. but think it has to be done from the git go not just raised after an install ...

[enteon]

aren't we limited by sata bus already? Might help random read/write though.

I went from 586MB/s to 626Mb/s with my 4x SLC RAID0 on Areca 1210 by overclocking my PCI-E from 100 to 116MHz.

so we _are_ limited by sata (which in this cases seems to clock according to pcie speed). at least with such crazy setups

[lowfat]

so we _are_ limited by sata (which in this cases seems to clock according to pcie speed). at least with such crazy setups

I don't expect similar results to his if you were using onboard.


The reason his are going up is because he is limited by the controller on his RAID card.

[Nizzen]

This thred is usless without pics? :p
5x vertex ssd @ Areca 1680ix

pci-e 100 mhz


pci-e 110mhz


Overclocked Areca FTW

Anyone have faster linear read speed with ssd?

[Boogerlad]

your minimum is lower though? Why?

[NapalmV5]

^ in response

4x ssd @ arc1231



for those that cant differentiate nonmft vs mft.. this is not mft

[ILikeCosmosS]

ever since ssd's came out the sata bus has been saturated and i dont see pcie buss saturated yet until the new generation of cards
i have never heard of overclocking hard drives but thats just crazy talk to me

[NeedMoMegaHurtZ]

@Nizzen -

How long is the initialization sequence for booting on the 1680ix?
Do you have the default 512MB for the controller or a different module?
What type PCIe slot are you using? (x16 2.0 vs. x16 1.0 etc...)

This is interesting, because there have been numerous posts, both here and other forums saying the 1680ix is not ssd friendly in terms of scaling (most of those were with mtrons, however, but yours seems "agreeable" with the OCZ Vertexes)

Thanks

[Nizzen]

@Nizzen -

How long is the initialization sequence for booting on the 1680ix?
Do you have the default 512MB for the controller or a different module?
What type PCIe slot are you using? (x16 2.0 vs. x16 1.0 etc...)

This is interesting, because there have been numerous posts, both here and other forums saying the 1680ix is not ssd friendly in terms of scaling (most of those were with mtrons, however, but yours seems "agreeable" with the OCZ Vertexes)

Thanks

Using pci-e x16 2.0 on Asus evolution x48. Areca 1680ix has 2gb memory. firmware 1.45

[virtualrain]

I went from 586MB/s to 626Mb/s with my 4x SLC RAID0 on Areca 1210 by overclocking my PCI-E from 100 to 116MHz.

I don't believe you could get 586MB/s out of a 1210... I didn't think that was possible. How?