Hi.
I'm looking into drive encryption on an Intel 730 SSD. I've read the drive supports AES 256 bit encryption.

Is this encryption able to be secured by the user to prevent unauthorised access to the ssd/make it unable to be booted without a password or key or would I be required to use software based encryption such as windows bitlocker or diskcryptor?

If I would be required to use a software based encryption would this have any affect on the wear of the SSD? I have read on some articles software encryption dramatically increases wear and greatly reduces the life of SSDs.

In short is there any way to take advantage of the AES encryption present in the SSD to prevent any and all unauthorised access?

Thank you.

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

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

Was able to boot off my Intel 750 with my Asus Saberbooth X99 board and install Windows 10. Not happy at all on the raw read speed tests using HD Tune. This drive is so called rated for 2200MB/sec read speed and I get half that. My BIOS is updated, my Intel Toolbox is updated and I'm using the correct Intel drivers. I get an average of 1100MB/sec read speed on most read test software I've used. I've spent lots of money on this drive, but this puts a sour taste in my mouth.

Any ideas or suggestions here? As I said before, I am using the Intel SSD solid state drive drivers.

Asus Saberbooth X99 with latest BIOS

64GB high speed memory DD4

Intel i7-5930k 40 lane PCI processor

How do I get the performance out of this drive that's advertised all over with such high stats? If not, then I'll need to open a ticket with Intel and possibly consider it a defective unit.

Hi there, I recently purchased an Intel 750 SSD (2.5 inch drive, model number SSDPE2MW400G4R5) and am having some major issues with getting it to run smoothly. I originally had it as a boot drive for Windows 10 on a newly purchased Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming G1 Motherboard. Everything with the installation went smoothly. The drive was connected to the motherboard via the M.2 to U.2 Add-in-Card. My experience was fine until attempting to resume from the sleep or hibernation state on my computer. Except for a few random instances, the SSD failed to resume the system from sleep and would eventually give up and restart the system altogether. Specifically, my monitors would show nothing and have no display signal, further my mouse and keyboard would quickly disconnect (after waking the computer) and stay disconnected. However, The computer fans would turn on along with all interior lights and stay running. After auto-restarting, I would then be greeted with a blue screen of death with the error message "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE". After the next restart (due to the BSOD), the system would then boot fine, usually taking me to the state where i had originally left the computer when it was slept. Attempting the hibernation state would cause the same error (INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE) to appear which would then cause a restart which (after automatic windows repair at the splash screen), would load where i left off at before hibernating the computer. The ensuing hours were then dedicated to trying to find the root cause of the problem. I'll briefly summarize the actions (that I can remember) taken below:

• Downloaded Intel SSD Toolbox and ensured all drivers were up to date.
• Uninstalled and reinstalled intel ssd drivers along with various others such as nvidia display drivers.
• Changed Power State options to high performance, and changed the hard drive turn off option to "never"
• Downloaded the latest (non-beta) BIOS version for Motherboard. Specific version ID was changed from F2 to F3  (Full hardware info will be provided below)
• Ran Windows Memory Diagnostic Test, which came back with no errors on the RAM.
• Ran Full Diagnostic Test on SSD through Intel SSD Toolbox, which came back with no errors.
• Re-checked for any loose connections within computer case.
• Uninstalled various non-core programs, and closed non-critical processes before attempting to sleep. Most likely coincidental and non-repeatable, I actually did get the system to resume a few times from the sleep state doing this method. However, after restarting and closing out the same programs and processes, I could not replicate the result. A couple hours of attempts and I gave up on this path.
• Uninstalled windows 10 altogether and reinstalled Windows 8 cleanly. The issue still persisted in the hibernation and sleep state on windows 8 as well.

At this point, I was out of ideas and decided that the best path forward was to put windows 10 on my SAMSUNG 840 EVO 500 GB to further isolate, confirm, and better diagnose the Intel 750 SSD and the drivers as the underlying issue. As a result, I disconnected all other hard drives/SSD's along with the Intel 750 SSD and installed Windows 10 on the Samsung SSD, I once again attempted the sleep and hibernation states multiple times and over several restarts after installing various programs and drivers. I did not have any issue occur once. The system resumed in roughly 7-10 seconds every time, without a problem.

I now connected all my other storage devices to my PC to once again test for problems. First of all, the Intel 750 SSD was detected and accessible under my devices and drives. I then proceeded to test the sleep state once again without issue on multiple instances. However, the total time to resume from the sleep state increased to roughly 20-30 seconds. Further, the Intel 750 SSD was now no longer detected by windows. Checking Event Viewer lists two relevant entries occurring during system resume.

1. Error at 12:54:59 AM at Source "stornvme" (event id 11): The driver detected a controller error on \Device\RaidPort2.
2. Warning at 12:55:04 AM at Source "disk" (event id 157): Disk 4 has been surprise removed.

At this point, I entered into Device Manager and disabled, and then re-enabled the "standard NVM Express Controller". This immediately caused windows to detect the ssd once again and fixed my issue (until the next sleep state is attempted). If anyone could provide any guidance to me on this issue it would be much appreciated. I do know that users have had similar issues with other M.2 SSD's not resuming from sleep state. One solution I've also read about is to disable link power management? However, I don't want to attempt anything else until I perhaps hear from someone with more experience on solving an issue like this. Thanks so much for reading this far, I'll provide a summary of my specs below, but please let me know anything else needed to help aid you all in solving this!

Operating System

  Windows 10 Home 64-bit

  CPU

  Intel Core i3/i5/i7 6xxx @ 3.50GHz 23 °C

  Skylake 14nm Technology

  RAM

  16.0GB

  Motherboard

  Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z170X-GamingG1 (U3E1) 28 °C

  Graphics

  XB270HU (2560x1440@144Hz)

  VG248 (1920x1080@144Hz)

  VG248 (1920x1080@144Hz)

  TOSHIBA-TV (1920x1080@60Hz)

  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (EVGA)

  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 (EVGA)

  ForceWare version: 353.62

  SLI Enabled

  Storage

  223GB SanDisk SDSSDHII240G (SSD)

  931GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 (SATA)

  223GB KINGSTON SV300S37A240G (SSD)

  931GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 (SATA)

  372GB NVMe INTEL SSDPE2MW40 (Unknown)

  465GB Samsung SSD 840 EVO 500GB (SSD)

  931GB TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 (SATA)

  Optical Drives

  HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW UH12NS30

  Audio

  Sound Blaster ZxRi

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)

Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== 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)

Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== 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.

Even after I installed the Intel driver (as well as the SSD Toolbox) when checking the drive in Device Manager in Windows it reports using the Microsoft driver so I would like to know how to make it use the Intel driver instead? I've tried installing the Intel driver both by using the setup program included with the driver but I also tried installing the driver manually by pointing to the folder where I have the driver but I was then informed no suitable driver could be found.

I'm using Windows 10 Pro and the driver I downloaded from Intel's download center is called Intel Windows NVMe driver 1.2.0.1002-x64

I’m experiencing strange behaviour of my SSD 520 (120GB) in Lenovo Thinkpad T61. The first time I realized it was running with W7: sometimes (without any presage) the disk activity highs up to 100% while 2nd drive (hdd) is idle. The drive overload usually lasts about 10-30 seconds. While it is in peak period sometimes the computer does not response for any inputs (clicking, typing) Another time it lets me to change windows, listening music etc. but cancels some other activities (loading browser pages, typing). It is very very annoying. I tried with/without factory drivers but no affect. After this I made a clean install of W8.1. The drive overload happend significantly rare, but it was still there:

• no task/process/service is running
• disk usage is 100% for 10-30 seconds
• often computer can’t response

After the peak time, everything is good. I also tried W10 but no change. For a final attempt today morning I started the W10 installation after I removed the other HDD/ODD from the UltraBay drive preventing Windows to install any unnecessary controller drivers. And God can see my soul: the drive overload still happened exactly in the time when W10 installation was in finishing phase.

What should I do ? The drive is still under warranty (S/N: CVCV430003K3120BGN) Intel SSD Toolbox says the drive has perfect condition. Is there any other diagnostic tool ?

Hi, is there an eSATA or USB cable that allows one to connect to a DC P3700 so one can run the secure erase command?

Why am I only getting 1.5 GB read speeds I have latest driver.

Intel Z97 AR w/re-flashed bios. Installation on new computer went well on windows 8.1 OS.

I have two RAID1 HDDs.  My ultimate goal is to migrate to two RAID1 SSDs per customer request.

Can the migration read from a RAID? (I can't imagine why not)

If so, can the software transfer to RAID1 SSDs?

If I can't transfer to RAIDed SSDs, what would be best practice for getting everything migrated?

Thank you,

Jeff Miller

R-Team

Motherboard: Evga z170 classified

CPU: i7-6700k

Memory: G.Skill F4-3000C15Q-16GRK (4x4GB DDR4-3000)

Boot SSD: Samsung 850 Pro

SSD: 750 PCIe 1.2TB

GPU: Asus GTX 980 STRIX

I have noticed that when I set my memory to 3000 Mhz in the bios this SSD doesn't initialize. The bios acts as if nothing is in the slot it's in. I've tried different slots as well.

Other than that my system is stable. Ran a stress test overnight with no issues.

CPU is running stock. I'm technically overclocking the memory controller with this ram though. Is this just a limitation of the integrated memory/io controller or is there something else I'm missing?

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

hi im running windows ten on both these sdd drives. Intel SSD 750 Sieries 1,2TB, Intel SSD 750 Sieries 400GB.with  windows audio enabled in administative tools services the speeds for both are greatly reduced in speed.With the sound disabled both run at normal speeds.

could some body please give me some advice or help with this conflict thankyou

see link below please can you help thankyou

Intel SSD 750 Sieries - YouTube

Howdy Everyone. Just picked up the Intel 750 1.2TB SSD card. Installed it on my X99 Asus Rampage V board and installed Windows 7 X64 without a problem. However, I am seeing a boot performance issue. This drive is taking about 25 seconds to boot, approximately 13 seconds longer than my Samsung 850 EVO. Did a little Googling on this and apparently, I am not the only one. I have read several reviews and the ones that measure boot time / performance will say this is the slowest SSD to boot. I have provided the link below as an example.

Intel's 750 Series solid-state drive reviewed - The Tech Report - Page 5

Intel - Is this going to be fixed in a future firmware release? I wont be able to justify keeping this card if first generation SSD's still outperform in terms of booting.

Thanks,

Randman76

X99 Rampage V

I-7 5960X OC to 4.4 ghz

Corsair Vengeance (4x4GB)

980 GTX-SLI

1200W PSU

I'm  told that Windows 7 handles the trim functionality. does that mean that I do not have to run the optimizer  to delete the files marked for deletion?

Does the optimizer read a list that windows 7 has compiled to instruct the system which ones to delete?

I'm curious what part does windows 7 play in the trim functionality of the Intel Solid state drive toolbox.

is it "either-or", meaning use windows 7 to handle the trim functionality fully (listing, deleting) or use the SSD toolbox optimizer to handle this feature FULLY.

or is it a combination effort between windows 7 and the SSD toolbox optimizer?

hello,

I have pulled new SSD from my computer and I ve checked SMART under Parted Magic

What is very impressive 3 parameters are "pre-failure". Disk is new, started maybe 10-20 times, so I dont understand whatsgoing on:

(in the attachment file is txt formatted output - http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=06821676496012197176 )

Device Model:     INTEL SSDSC2BF180A4H

[code]ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE

  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       10 (1 188 0)

12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       23

[b]170 Unknown_Attribute       0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0[/b]

171 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

172 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

174 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       23

183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0032   100   100   010    Old_age   Always       -       8

[b]184 End-to-End_Error        0x0033   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0[/b]

187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032   038   043   000    Old_age   Always       -       38 (Min/Max 24/43)

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       23

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

225 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       3042

226 Load-in_Time            0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       65535

227 Torq-amp_Count          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       55

228 Power-off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       65535

[b]232 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0[/b]

233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       3042

242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       4817

249 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       101[/code]

Please help me to identify its is worth to trust it and make this a system drive.

Thank you for any help

This system is a i5-2500k, DZ68BC (BIOS 28), Creative sound card, and 730 240 GB desktop. The PSU is 650 W Seasonic gold and the RAM is Crucial Ballistix Tactical 1333. Up until recently I had a WDC hard drive instead of the 730. After reinstalling W-7 on the 730, I noticed that every time the system went to sleep and woke up, the sound was crackly and distorted. A reboot always fixes things. Then I took an old WDC hard drive and installed W-7 for a few hours (the 730 was disconnected) as a test and there was no sound problem. Therefore the 730 is the cause. Yes, the onboard audio is disabled.

My questions are:

- Is the 730 series intended for use as Windows system drives?

- The Microsoft device driver is 6.1.7600.16385. Does Intel have a newer, better one?

- I seem to remember reading that the 730 has different sleep characteristics and that the drive isn't recommended for laptops for that reason (excessive heat is another problem). If this is true, is it possible to change its sleeping habits to that of a 530?

Recently installed Intel 750 400GB NVME PCI-E drive as boot drive on new ASUS Z170 motherboard.

All went well. No install or boot problems. But Win10 will not let me update the MS Driver with the latest Intel one. "Best driver is already installed".

How can I force the driver replacement? My AS SSD Seq scores are roughly 1500 MB/Sec, which is lower than other posts I have seen.

Or am I looking at the wrong entry in the Device manager?

Thanks - Norvil