AS SSD Benchmarks Post yours..

doorules said:

His score went up but at 4k speed cost. Not what you are looking for really. Most all work on pc happens in the 4k range and that is where you want to maximize speed if possible.

Having said that with those speeds probably not able to notice a difference.

Yes, I know. I just wanted to see what ATTO says. AS SSD uses compressed data to run the tests, ATTO Does not. Many SSD Controllers compress data to increase speed. You can't compress already compressed data, so you get unrealistic low scores. But, yes 4K speed is what an OS uses mostly.

doorules said:

His score went up but at 4k speed cost..

I certainly did notice that. I'm not running a server (only for Outlook, Edge and Scrabble really) so I don't care about the total score. The total score on this test is biased towards servers and gives a bonus to threaded 4k writes. From what I read anyway here How is the AS SSD total score calculated? - Answers - UserBenchmark

I have CPU utilization fixed at 75% in power options though as I've got heating problems I haven't fixed yet.

Perhaps sorachci uses more CPU than intelide. Could be that as I can't think why else ahci would be slower. I tried a few times and always 4K was slower and 4k-64Thrd faster than it was with IDE.

doorules said:

Having said that with those speeds probably not able to notice a difference.

I certainly didn't and don't notice any difference. I was so relieved the thing booted at all after replacing the first 480 bytes of the mbr with god know what I found on the internet.

I suppose I could restore back and retest my scores under IDE with different power settings but it is too complicated for me to do.

Copying back the first 480 bytes of the mbr is nothing but I'd also have to remove the drive from my laptop again as I can't boot from USB or DVD to restore the old registry. I also really don't want to make it worse.

I'll run the ATTO test once my diskcleanup has finished and see what it says as it is really quite interesting for me.

EDIT: OK these are the ATTO results. I've nothing to compare them to (IDE mode) but it seems to be stopping at 130-140 after 16k which isn't far off the theoretical 150 MB/s SATA (version 1) limit according to Wikipedia.

Looks OK to me. Am I right?