The SSD Diaries: Crucial's RealSSD C300
by Anand Lal Shimpi on July 13, 2010 12:39 AM ESTSYSMark 2007
SYSMark is mostly CPU bound and thus we don’t see any real differences between the contenders here. It is a good reality check that points out SSDs won’t improve performance in applications that are simply not IO bound.
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Thevilpsycho666 - Sunday, February 6, 2011 - link
Hi !After reading Anand reviews on the c300, i was amazed by the performance of the drive even for the 128gb model and since i have a Rampage III gene with a 6gb Marvell 9128 controller i was thinking of buying one.
Finally 3 days ago the drive was 250$ on newegg so i bought it.
Going around on forum i discover with great disappointment that the 6gbs Marvell controller "apparently" don't issue the TRIM command, is it true ?
Nobodies seem to have a definitive answer, Crucial don't have one, Marvell are under NDA so they don't answer anyone, Asus Told somebody that they should use the Intel controller instead to ensure TRIM support.
1- Is the Marvell controller supporting Trim and is there a way to test that ? (the "fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify" command is not the answer because it's only telling if the OS is issuing the command and that's not where the problem is.)
2- Some Claim that with the latest Marvell driver which is 1.0.00.1051 make the TRIM working. Some claim that it don't.
3-Other claim that the Microsoft ACHI drivers instead of Marvell's one work with TRIM.
It would be very nice if you Anand could test that particular scenario (C300 With Marvell 9128 6gbs windows 7 64) To see if the TRIM command work.
In the end not only me will benefit, but the whole community as well.
Thank you in advance!