I have had zero complaints about random BSOD's or lockups. My X25-M and Vertex 2's across multiple computers, laptops and friends computers are all running flawlessly.
SANDFORCE MPTOOL UPGRADE
Is the incremental upgrade (of microseconds at best?) really worth sacrificing the reliability associated with last generations drives? That being said I fully understand that the new Sandforce chips allow SATA6 connectivity, and are thus the fastest possible drives on the market.yet I have to ask, is it worth it? I don't see you mentioning these issues with last gens drives like the aforementioned X25-m, or Sandforce v1.Īny SSD sold today is plainly 'fast', and order of magnitudes faster then magnetic-based storage. Sagath - Thursday, Auglink Firstly, I'd state I always appreciated you bringing these issues to the front page to allow the consumer to see these issues in a public venue, while also berating manufacturers for selling us junk.SandForce has offered to fly down to my office to do a trace on the system as soon as I can reproduce it regularly. Unfortunately even with the platform and conditions narrowed down, it's still an issue that appears rarely, randomly and without any sort of predictability. Update: I'm still working on a sort of litmus test to get this problem to appear more consistently. Your best bet is to get your money back and try a different drive from a different vendor. If you do own one of these drives and are having issues, I don't know that there's a good solution out today. My best advice is to look around and see if other users have had issues with these drives and have a similar system setup to you. Regardless the problem does still exist and it's a valid reason to look elsewhere. I know that type of testing happens during chipset development, but I'd be surprised if every single motherboard manufacturer did the same. Prior to the SF-2281 I'm not sure that a lot of these motherboard manufacturers ever really tested if you could push more than 400MB/s over their SATA ports. SandForce drives are operating at speeds that just a year ago no one even thought of hitting on a single SATA port. I don't believe the issue is entirely due to a lack of testing/validation. I've sent them all SF-2281 drives for use in their primary machines and none of them have come back to me with issues. The same goes for Brian Klug, Vivek Gowri and Jason Inofuentes.
SANDFORCE MPTOOL PRO
I've got a 240GB Vertex 3 in my 2011 MacBook Pro (15-inch) and haven't seen any issues. Clearly the problem isn't limited to a single platform.Īt the same time there are those who have no problems at all. Those who have reported issues have done so from a variety of platforms including Alienware, Clevo and Dell notebooks. It's also not a Sandy Bridge problem as I've seen the hard lock on ASRock's A75 Extreme6 Llano motherboard, although admittedly not as frequently. I'm still digging to try and find a good, reproducible test scenario but I'm not quite there yet. To make matters worse, I switched power supplies on the platform and my method for reproducing the bug no longer seems to work. What's particularly interesting is that the problem doesn't occur on Intel's DH67BL, only on the ASUS board. They aren't as frequent as before with the older firmware revision, but they still happen. The recent Apple announcements once more kept me away from my CPU/SSD work but with a way to reproduce the issue I vowed to return to the faulty testbed when my schedule allowed.Įven on the latest drive firmware, I still get hard locks on the ASUS P8Z68-V Pro. It didn't take me long to realize that I had been testing on the wrong board, but it also hit me that I may have finally reproduced the infamous SandForce BSOD issue. I never did see a blue screen but I'd get hard locks that required a power cycle/reset to fix. All of the sudden I couldn't complete a handful of my benchmarks. With my eye off the ball I accidentally continued CPU testing using an ASUS P8Z68-V Pro instead of my Intel board.
SANDFORCE MPTOOL FREE
The platform worked perfectly and it has been crash free for weeks.Ī slew of tablet announcements pulled me away from CPUs for a bit, but I wanted to get more testing done while I worked on other things. I've been using Intel's DH67BL motherboard for this particular testbed since I'm not doing any overclocking - just stock Sandy Bridge numbers using Intel's HD 3000 GPU. My CPU testbeds need to be stable given their importance in my life so if I find a particular hardware combination that works, I tend to stick to it.
SANDFORCE MPTOOL UPDATE
All of the existing benchmarks in CPU Bench use a first generation Intel X25-M and I felt like now was a good time to update that hardware. In working on some new benchmarks for our CPU Bench database I built an updated testbed using OCZ's Agility 3. A few weeks ago I was finally able to reproduce the SF-2281 BSOD bug in house.
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