Intel SSD 530 NAND Write Problem

December 2, 2013, 3:13 am

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Hello, everyone:

I bought an Intel SSD 530 120G for my laptop several days ago. It worked well with the OS Win8.1 Pro x64.

When I paid attention to the NAND writes, something make me confused.

The situation is as follow:

The SSD with the OS is the first(primary) Disk, and the HDD is the second one. I have moved the cache of IE, chrome and Firefox to the Hard Drive using IE setting or mklink command, and verified it correctly. With the explorer working, the written data stream from cache is produced in the HDD partition theoretically, also I have got this conclusion through the System's Resource Monitor and the Diskmon from Microsoft website. When I cached several Movies embedded in any explorer without other operation separately, there are lots of written data traffic produced in the HDD partition, and just little data wrote in system disk(SSD), it’s no doubt. Finally, each test(using one kind of explorer) improved less than 200Mb in Total Host Writes which is normal for system operating, but this process also consumed about 3Gb SSD's Total NAND writes in total in the CrystalDiskInfo 6.0.1. Also I have got the same result with the newly Intel SSD Toolbox, AIDA64 3.20 and CrystalDiskInfo 6.0.1. In fact, this written data traffic produced by explorer's cache in HDD is calculated into the SSD's total NAND writes.

Actually I'm not care of the SSD's wear, and I'm sure it couldn't reach the limited lifespan with normal usage until next generation product arrives. This accidental discovery confused me now, and the result above make me suspect the theory, Putting IE/Chrome or System cache into other medium/drive saving your SSD's wear.

Q:Here, I want to know what makes this strange condition happen, the drivers, system's bug, bad support for old mainboard, the system's setting&config or the special system log?

Testing condition:

Thinkpad R400(GM45 motherboard)/P8700/8Gb RAM/Intel 530 SSD+Hitachi 7k500/Intel 5300 AGN/Win 8.1 Pro X64 with the Win 8.1's Default config and drivers, except trunning the service Superfetch off mannually.

I could make sure the location of explorer cache(IE, Chrome, Firefox) in HDD, also the written data traffic in HDD, and the vast imprived NAND writes in SSD simultaneously.

Thanks for your help.

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Intel 750 activity led (pcie)

September 12, 2015, 1:59 am

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Hi guys,
I'm having some issues with the 750 ssd and the hdd activity led on my case. For some reason there is NO activity led, though the system works just fine with no crushes, errors, etc. By "No activity led" I mean, it just semi blinks for one or two times during boot and never blinks again, whatever I do (games, installing apps, running intel optimizer, etc). Have tried all the usual and possible things to check but no luck. *The led on my case works fine for the record.
My specs are :

Asus Rampage V Extreme/ 3.1 usb revision
Intel core i7 5820K @ 3,6Ghz
Corsair dominator 16GB DDR4 @ 3000Mhz

Intel 750 ssd (pcie version, Connected on PCI e 3.0 x8, so works x4) **Latest Firmware with Toolbox 3.3.1/ latest driver 1.2.0.1002
MSI 290x Lighting
Running Windows 10 Pro x64 fully updated (no option here )

Tried both with CSM on and off, no difference

Looking forward to hearing from you!
Chris

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October 28, 2015, 4:33 am

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Hi everyone, I've hit an unexpected issue with some new Intel 750's (1.2TB) and ESXi 6 (latest update). I have installed the latest driver as recommended (to improve the performance of the drives) and while they are working I have noticed that ESXi isn't attempting to reclaim any free space (and forcing it doesn't work). A check of the VAAI values of each drive showed the following:

VAAI Plugin Name:

ATS Status: unsupported

Clone Status: unsupported

Zero Status: unsupported

Delete Status: unsupported

While I expected ATS/Clone/Zero to be unsupported, I didn't expect to see Delete as unsupported. Using a standard SSD through an AHCI controller will show Delete as supported (as TRIM seems to get converted to DISCARD/UNMAP).

Has anyone else seen this? I'm concerned that as a result my performance is going to degrade over time as there will be a lack of proper unmapping of free space.

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750 series SSD performance on CPU, or PCH PCI-E

November 19, 2015, 5:26 pm

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Where can I find more data comparing the performance of an Intel 750 series ssd (1.2TB HHHL) operating on native PCI-E lanes from the CPU vs PCH supplied lanes. I'll be using a 6700K on a Z170 chipset motherboard. I am trying to determine the penalties caused by the DMI bottleneck, and if it warrants the upgrade to an X99 board.

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Intel 750 PCI-Express 3.0 boot ASUS Maximus IV Extreme

November 20, 2015, 5:38 pm

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September 22, 2011, 9:31 pm

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Just curius if Intel has decided to yet to make a Intel SSD Toolbox application for Mac? My 320 is running fine in my Early-2011 MBP, would be nice though to have those tools. Any alternatives?

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intel SSD 330 series and motherboard question

November 23, 2015, 3:19 pm

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I have the above stated intel SSD 330 series ( serial# cvmp2172029a180cgn ) 180gb

and was wondering if its compatible with the

ASUS Z170-P D3 motherboard

i checked the device list for this motherboard and this SSD was not on the list

would love some help here.but if not here perhaps i could phone intel

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Intel SSD 520 Not find

November 23, 2015, 11:01 pm

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HELP
Have a user who have a Intel SSD 520 180Gb, User have run Bitlock and when i should change harddrive i checked with a extern dock i can reach the file Work.
Install the new hdd and should add back files from Intel disk then its dead dead dead, try to put it in to computer again but nothing happen. try to find it in diskmanager, try intel SSD toolbox but nothing, no live at all from hard drive. What to do next? i don´t care about hdd but info at it are importen.

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November 24, 2015, 7:29 pm

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verifying optimal performance 750 ssd

November 25, 2015, 8:57 am

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So I've got a 400gb 750 HHHL ssd installed, finally got it to boot with a fresh install of Win7 64bit (GPT).

Benchmarks are coming out reasonably well, but real world performance has seen some indicators that it might not be configured correctl - Windows takes over a minute to boot up and VideoStudio X7 takes 6-7 sec to open, etc.

Using the intel ssd toolbox I've updated the 750 firmware, and downloaded and installed intel's NVMe drivers for win 7.

What am I looking for to verify that it is configured correctly and getting optimal performance?

System:

i5 4690k

msi gaming 5 z97 mobo

16 gb ddr3 ram

GTX 960

two 1TB HDDs

one 80gb intel x25-m ssd

400gb 750 ssd

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Just bought SSD 320 Series 300GB, it has 4PC1LE05 firmware. Tried to update with Toolbox v 3.3.3, but it states, that i have newest firmware for this tool. Also tried Firmware Update Tool 2.1.x and image from issdfut_2.1.1.iso but it crashes, after boot from dvd, when graphic UI is initializing, then returnts to prompt. error setting MTRR. Tried on two PCs, on both with the same problem. Both PCs with Win7 64bit, AMD Phenom II, Nvidia 400 and 600, all drivers updated. What can i do?

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Intel SSD 530 NAND Write Problem

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Hello, everyone:

I bought an Intel SSD 530 120G for my laptop several days ago. It worked well with the OS Win8.1 Pro x64.

When I paid attention to the NAND writes, something make me confused.

The situation is as follow:

Q:Here, I want to know what makes this strange condition happen, the drivers, system's bug, bad support for old mainboard, the system's setting&config or the special system log?

Testing condition:

I could make sure the location of explorer cache(IE, Chrome, Firefox) in HDD, also the written data traffic in HDD, and the vast imprived NAND writes in SSD simultaneously.

Thanks for your help.

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Intel SSD Toolbox for Mac?

September 22, 2011, 9:31 pm

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Intel 750 and HDD Activity LED

August 30, 2015, 10:32 am

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I installed Windows 10 onto my Intel 750 400GB(SSDPE2MW400G4R5-2.5" SSD version) last night and everything seemed fine but then this morning I

noticed that the HDD activity LED was on all the time. After spending about 4 hours on the problem I figured out that the LED works fine on other hard

drives but when I plug in the 750 the LED it appears that it reverses itself(on for no activity and off for activity). I tried messing with the LED connectors

on the motherboard and at the front panel but nothing works.

I used to have the AHCI version of the Samsung SM951 512GB M.2 SSD in the slot and the HDD activity LED functioned correctly.

Except for that the 750 works just fine.

For the record, my setup;

Asus X99 Deluxe with most current bios

32GB Crucial Sport Ballistix DIMMs

1TB Seagate HD

Intel 750 400GB 2.5" SSD with most current firmware

Nvidia GeForce Titan graphics card

Asus Hyper Kit NVMe adapter

Is this a problem that will be fixed with future firmware or should I just return it and hope the replacement doesn't do the same thing?

Message was edited by: Kent Jantz

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S3610 SSDs have failed "READ/WRITE FPDMA QUEUED" ATA commands, frozen, then link reset

July 31, 2015, 4:07 am

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Hi,

I have a new Linux machine with two DC S3610 1.6TB SSDs. It's Debian jessie so kernel 3.6.17. Since around one month after installation these errors started appearing:

Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.249429] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.250465] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED

Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.251505] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:00:39:db:8e/00:00:09:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 out

Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.251505] res 40/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)

Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.253613] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }

Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.254781] ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED

Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.255810] ata1.00: cmd 61/08:08:71:fc:4e/00:00:66:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 4096 out

Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.255810] res 40/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)

Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.257940] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }

Jul 30 16:30:59 snaps kernel: [186914.259086] ata1: hard resetting link

Jul 30 16:31:00 snaps kernel: [186914.577366] ata1: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)

Jul 30 16:31:00 snaps kernel: [186914.578307] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133

Jul 30 16:31:00 snaps kernel: [186914.578310] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0

Jul 30 16:31:00 snaps kernel: [186914.578311] ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0

Jul 30 16:31:00 snaps kernel: [186914.578316] ata1: EH complete

The error is always the same, and the only thing on ata1.00 is one of the SSDs. I switched the two SSDs around and the problem followed the same SSD.

I can't force the error to happen on demand, it just seems to happen every other day or so, though not at the same time of day. All IO is held up briefly while the link is reset. The drive passes a SMART long self-test.

So is this drive faulty? If not, what can I try to fix this? If so, is there an easy way to prove it for RMA purposes?

Jul 27 05:59:30 snaps kernel: [ 33.054376] ata1.00: ATA-9: INTEL SSDSC2BX016T4, G2010110, max UDMA/133

Jul 27 05:59:30 snaps kernel: [ 33.054474] ata1.00: 3125627568 sectors, multi 1: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)

Jul 27 05:59:30 snaps kernel: [ 33.054567] ata2.00: ATA-9: INTEL SSDSC2BX016T4, G2010110, max UDMA/133

Jul 27 05:59:30 snaps kernel: [ 33.054657] ata2.00: 3125627568 sectors, multi 1: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)

$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda

smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-4-amd64] (local build)

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Device Model: INTEL SSDSC2BX016T4

Serial Number: BTHC511604V41P6PGN

LU WWN Device Id: 5 5cd2e4 04b7b1bfa

Firmware Version: G2010110

User Capacity: 1,600,321,314,816 bytes [1.60 TB]

Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical

Rotation Rate: Solid State Device

Form Factor: 2.5 inches

Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]

ATA Version is: ACS-2 T13/2015-D revision 3

SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)

Local Time is: Fri Jul 31 11:04:09 2015 UTC

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.

SMART support is: Enabled

$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdb

smartctl 6.4 2014-10-07 r4002 [x86_64-linux-3.16.0-4-amd64] (local build)

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Device Model: INTEL SSDSC2BX016T4

Serial Number: BTHC511604SD1P6PGN

LU WWN Device Id: 5 5cd2e4 04b7b1ba2

Firmware Version: G2010110

User Capacity: 1,600,321,314,816 bytes [1.60 TB]

Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical

Rotation Rate: Solid State Device

Form Factor: 2.5 inches

Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]

ATA Version is: ACS-2 T13/2015-D revision 3

SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)

Local Time is: Fri Jul 31 11:04:35 2015 UTC

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.

SMART support is: Enabled

Message was edited by: Andy Smith Now seeing same problems with other SSD, so this is not restricted to a single drive.

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Hey guys! How is your shopping season going there for those who are in US?

I have bought Intel 535 240GB to upgrade from Intel 330i 120GB and I don't know how migration should be done.

When I migrated from HDD to Intel 330i I used bundled Acronis migration tool to do that but now how will it be different?

Thanks

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Hello Guys

i am deciding to buy the intel 750 pcie ssd and i was wondering if i can get the full speeds of the ssd or not.you can find my pc specs below;

CPU : intel 3930k 40 Pci Lanes

mobo : Evga X79 Dark

as you know 3930k is not officially support the gen 3.0 but my mobo Evga X79 Dark has Pcie gen 3.0 slots .So what will happen if i place my intel 750 ssd into one of the pcie gen 3.0 slots?is it going to run in gen 3.0 standarts or gen 2.0 standarts?

i am a little bit confused about that.I mean , is the ssd going to work as gen 3.0 even if the cpu officialy doesnt support pcie 3.0 ? or is it just going to need x4 available pci lanes in CPU?

or is it just going to take attention the slot that it has been running in?

Kind Regards

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