Quote Originally Posted by SkOrPn View Post
I have to admit, I did NOT test 11.5 before reporting my previous statement of slower benches. I had only had benches from the 11.0 alpha release (which I thought would be identical to 11.5). So, your findings with slower transfers kinda hit a bad spot with me and I wanted to make absolutely sure this was the actual case. Well after doing two more tests on the new 11.5's, I have to admit I do not see a performance decrease, at least not on these old SSD's of mine. I have NOT tested any of my storage F3's or my Raptors for that matter, but it looks to me like 11.5 is Ok in regards to single drive perf. If only I was willing to drop back to 10.6, we would know if the alphas are a step back or not in performance. Unfortunately I forgot to take a screen shot when I tested my raid array on IRST 11.0. Otherwise I would have done a comparison with it as well.
It's not the drivers that's slowing us down, it's the new OROM included in the latest Asus BIOS. I did my own tests with the same INTEL RST driver and install, look at the difference.

I have a nit picky thing of matching drivers and firmware version. Seems like my old combo gave me the best performance.