Anvil's Storage Utilities

[tweakr]

Thanks for clearing that up. I have a different FW to test on the V4, and I would like to have a log if the same thing happens again, hence I asked. It isn't a matter of life and death here, so take your time and make it right. When it's done, it's done.


Regards,

tweak

[Anvil]

Release Candidate 1 (2012-05-19)
- Expires September 2012

Fixes
-Fixed bug when USB drives are connected
-Fixed bug when there are unpartitioned drives

What's new
-ASU now requires Administrative rights.
-USB drives are now supported
-TRIM can be triggered if TRIM is supported by the OS, will work on most drives that supports TRIM.
-Default Compression is set to 100% (Incompressible)
-New setting for Enabling/Disabling testing with "Write-Cache Buffer Flushing" on the X79 when using the 3 series RSTe driver.

-Endurance : Layout changed

Temporary test folder renamed from _AP_BENCH to _ASU_BENCH, the folder is at the root of the drive.
In case the system shuts down and ASU is not able to clean up the test folder, the contents can be deleted.
Files produced by ASU Benchmark have the following extensions : TRM and TST

Make sure that you don't have any folders that are in conflict with the test folder.

new download link for RC1

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New functionality will follow in the next release.

[Hopalong X]

Thanks Anvil.

Just in the nick of time to try on my new Samsung today.

[Anvil]

The "TRIM-trigger" needs some explanation.

To put it simply, it works more or less like the TRIM function found in Intel SSD Toolbox.

However, unlike the Intel Toolbox it can be used on all drives, it won't work on all drives though!

It won't work unless TRIM is working on the drive.
It won't work if the drive does not respond to the "normal" way of triggering TRIM.

It works in just seconds.
The time it takes for the drive to do the actual cleaning varies between drives. (from seconds and up...)

Here's an example of before and after TRIMming my Endurance drive.

Before
19-May-2012_11-45.png

After
19-May-2012_11-49_trimmed_by_ASU.png

[Anvil]

Thanks Anvil.

Just in the nick of time to try on my new Samsung today.

Looks like the Samsung was worth the wait

It's just that Marvell controller that is holding it a bit back, all in all it looks great.

[Arctucas]

Thanks for the update.

[Christopher]

Hopalong X -- I hope you told your wife I forced you to get an 830.

Anvil -- RC is "Le Sweet"!

[Hopalong X]

Hopalong X -- I hope you told your wife I forced you to get an 830.

Anvil -- RC is "Le Sweet"!

I blamed it on Anvil.

[AMD_Freak]

Thanks Anvil for the update everything seems smooth

[freyesm]

I like this proggie very much, hope to see more from them.

My little bench:

[freyesm]

Hmm, on last version write got better, but not read?

[freyesm]

Looks like Win7 was doing something and can influence the bench:

[Anvil]

There will always be some variations on SSD benchmarks!
Having a raid controller usually masks some of the variations but SSDs just aren't performing 100% consistently.

SSDs are very different from HDDs in this regard.

[Arctucas]

Dropped off significantly from BETA 11

[Anvil]

Arctucas

Looks like your previous benchmark was set for 0-Fill (easily compressible data)

If you are running drives based on the SF controller that would be whats changes the score, you can change the Compression setting in Settings.

There is no change to the scoring system.

[Christopher]

Arctucas, are those two 240GB 2281's with asynchronous flash?

[Arctucas]

@Anvil,

I just noticed that.

Anyway, I went back to RST 11.1.0.1006, and got a better result:



I wil give the RST 11.5.9.1149 a run with 0-fill.

EDIT: RST 11.5.0.1149 0-Fill:



It appears the new RST does affect the benchmark significantly, no?



@Cristopher,

No, 4x 64GB SSD with SF 1222 (SATA II).

[2f_tfe]

@anvil, thanks for the great work, is this the right place for suggestions and visual improvements ?
(with high contrast theme)

[Anvil]

Hi

Yes, you can post suggestions here.

As a matter of fact I'm working on an alternate theme with more "Metro" friendly/-like colors, I'll post a few screenshots when I'm ready.

[Christopher]

@anvil, thanks for the great work, is this the right place for suggestions and visual improvements ?
(with high contrast theme)

Are you talking about a high contrast theme for the visually impaired?

[2f_tfe]

thank you

i'm talking about the high contrast scheme for accessibility, i use a black/white scheme
and some elements are not viewable (such as settings page) or hard to read (light gray label
on dark grey background ..)

ii know are just little things, but it's important for partially sighted person (like me)

[Anvil]

Would this work better for you?

This is using the High Contrast Black Theme (default)

better_theme_support.png

[2f_tfe]

yes, it's ok, did you modify something ?
(thanks a lot)

last year i did some benchmarks analisys with a Vertex 2 60GB and ASU (beta5 ?),
some graphs :






ii think i spent a few days with excel

[Anvil]

Great work there 2f_tfe!

You're going to need an update, I had to make some adjustments.

[2f_tfe]

Anvil, thanks a lot

i have got a lot of notes about the old beta versions, i will check the new RC1
to find out improvements, just 2-3 things .. don't worry

bye
luke