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Corvettefisher
Sep 8, 2007



Okay so my SSD only stops responding and crashes my system when I open 12+ VM's at once, I guess I am just overloading the controller?

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Corvettefisher
Sep 8, 2007



Bob Morales posted:

Almost sounds like a RAM issue. Is it running out of physical or virtual memory?

16GB ram have 15%, about to be 32GB, I can run the VM's stable for 8+ hrs no crashing all performing heavy tasks no crashing only when I start up +5vm's at once

using 85% of physical ram, not overdoing that

Corvettefisher fucked around with this message at Dec 12, 2011 around 13:43

Corvettefisher
Sep 8, 2007



Bob Morales posted:

Weird, can you get it to crash running any benchmarks or gunzipping like 10 different, huge files at the same time? Any firmware updates out there?

Benchmarks don't fault it, just turning on multiple VM's at once

Corvettefisher
Sep 8, 2007



Factory Factory posted:

Are all the VM's hard drives definitely stored on the SSD? You haven't accidentally passed it to one as RAW, have you?

Yes, all 120GB worth of them. Drive is NTFS if that matters, which I don't see why it would. AHCI in bios and TRIM is on

Alereon posted:

I'd also look at the error logs on the host OS, maybe the SATA controller driver is falling over under the sudden burst of commands. What drive are you using?

No signs of sata fault, windows will just say "can't find E:\<path to VM>"

Not a big deal I just power on half then the other half after 2 minutes

Corvettefisher
Sep 8, 2007



oversteer posted:

Any recommendations on cloning software ? I'd like to buy a new SSD for my W7 desktop, then put my X25M into a Lenovo X61s. So I will need to clone the current install onto a larger replacement SSD, then clone the X61s Vista install onto the X25M, which is smaller than its existing drive..

Preferably something that works outside Windows, as I only have one desktop PC..

You can do clonezilla and pop both drives in the machine then run the cloning tool

Corvettefisher
Sep 8, 2007



my SSD is getting 2MB/s reads. Time to get a new motherboard because this contoller is hosed

oh this is a nice gem http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16820220580

Corvettefisher fucked around with this message at Dec 30, 2011 around 14:44

Corvettefisher
Sep 8, 2007



redeyes posted:

Its far more likely that the SSD is dieing.

Read speeds on my samsung F3 are 40/35

poped the SSD in my other PC ran a bench got max SATA II speeds and +25k IOPS

Corvettefisher
Sep 8, 2007



Sleipnir posted:

I have a 64Gb samsung 830, and my write speeds seem to be really low compared to benchmark numbers that I've seen. Sequential read speed is around 500 Mb/s or so, but sequential write speed is only around 160 Mb/s. All of my sata ports are listed as sata600. The motherboard is an Asrock 890GX Pro3. I checked the sequential write speed of a WD caviar blue attached to the same motherboard and it's only 40 Mb/s less than my SSD. What's going on here?

is it set to AHCI mode in the bios?

Corvettefisher
Sep 8, 2007



Got my new Mobo and sata controller, hitting 350MB/read 250/Write

Nice, getting over the product specs
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16820211530

Corvettefisher
Sep 8, 2007



So I got a new laptop and SSD (the 120GB ADATA one for 79), should I use intel rapid storage driver or just the default?

Corvettefisher
Sep 8, 2007



Bob Morales posted:

OP says:

Install AHCI and Chipset Drivers:

If you have an Intel chipset, install the latest Intel Rapid Storage Technology software, after you install the Chipset INF Update Utility.


Yeah I see it now, SA mobile app doesn't have crtl+f I believe

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Corvettefisher
Sep 8, 2007



Grim Up North posted:

Might be a better question for the VM thread, but how much SSD IO performance do you lose by using Virtualization? Would passing through a complete SSD help?

You probably won't notice, I have a 120Gb SSD I load with VDI's poo poo fly's most storage vendors are recommending SSD's for VDI anyways. The likely hood of you killing the SSD prior to you upgrading it is unlikely.

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