Guys, are you going to release a bootable software/utility for secure erasing our ssds (intel 750)?
I don't have a spare hdd / ssd, or a second system to swap, S.E. and then put it back o main system. I wouldn't do it even I had a second system...
Thanks in advance!

Hello,

I test/benchmark my SSD with AS SSD , UserBenchMark and CrystalDiskMark. In all cases my sequential write speed is about 240 MB/s, insted of 490 as advertised by Intel.

Firmware is RG21, SSD is connected to a intel 6GB/s SATA port as AHCI in Windows 7 64b.

Am i doing smtg wrong or intel has same marketingo as VW ?

Thanks

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

Hey,

I am having trouble installing Windows 10 (PRO) on my Intel 750 Series 1.2TB SSD. -- I could install it correctly on my HDD

Sometimes it gets recognized as a boot drive in my Motherboard BIOS, but sometimes it doesn't ( :/ )

Do you guys have any idea?

PC list here: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/WhyK99

CPU: Intel Core i7-5960X 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor

CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3 67.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler

Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH X99 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard

Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory

Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 4TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

Storage: Intel 750 Series 1.2TB (SSDPE2MW012T4R5)

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ Video Card (2-Way SLI)

Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 6GB Superclocked+ ACX 2.0+ Video Card (2-Way SLI)

Power Supply: SeaSonic 1200W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

Optical Drive: Asus BW-16D1HT Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM (64-bit)

Other: ASUS Model Hyper Kit Expansion Card

Please tell me, have a monoblock Lenovo C540, CPU Type QuadCore Intel Core i5-3330S, 2800 MHz.

After the upgrade, with win.8.1 to win.10, stopped working hibernate. Software tried all the options, the whole Internet. rummaged who advised that, too satisfied, the effect is zero.

Help Desk debited from Lenovo, from there replied that {Intel does not support the old platforms, due to the inability to work with WDDM 2.0 in Windows 10 in hardware} also advised to install the software and drivers from the WIN 8 /8.1. There is a possibility that these drivers will be installed / run in compatibility mode.

Q. Who can indicate where there is the wood, here on the site could not find. Thanks in advance for your help.

hi to all

like title i would like to create a raid system with 2 sm951 nvme on my sabertooth x99

the bios see both,

both are bootable.

irst version in bios are update (ver. 14 )

but in bios setup section to create raid disk aren't listed.

can anyone helpme?

thanks

parrotts !

All,

I created this account for the express purpose of (hopefully) making the installation process a little easier for those who may have trouble installing Windows 7 on their new Intel 750 SSD.  After going through tremendous difficulty, I figured the least I could do is to lessen the pain for someone else.

My motherboard:  Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Here are the things that I had to do to get things working.  Note that these are not necessarily in order:

1.) Have Windows 7 either on DVD or USB (using the Windows USB Installation Tool available from the Gigabyte support site).  Though Gigabyte claims that the USB installer is necessary, I found that not to be the case for me.

2.) Change the 'storage boot option control' to "UEFI only" in BIOS

3.) Change/maintain 'windows 8 features' in 'other OS' in BIOS

     -steps 2 and 3 are described with pictures in the 'Boot Guide for NVMe SSD pdf file:

http://download.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/sb/nvme_boot_guide_332098001us.pdf

4.) Have driver CD (included with SSD) on hand, or load Intel NVMe drivers (from Intel website's drivers and downloads section) onto USB.  I used the CD.

== KEY STEP THAT I MISSED AT FIRST ==

5.) Convert the Intel 750 SSD to a GPT partition (vice MBR).  I wasted so much time struggling until I figured this out.

     Here's what I did:

          -Used Win 8.1 CD that I had on hand (from HTPC), and booted to that drive in UEFI mode (hit F12 to bring up boot menu).  From there, I used the built-in parstition utility:

     a. From inside Windows Setup, press Shift+F10 to open a command prompt window.

     b. Open the diskpart tool: 

diskpart 

Identify the drive to reformat: 

list disk 

Select the drive, and reformat it: 

select disk <disk number> clean convert gpt exit 

     I'm told you can also use a Linux program (GNU Parted) to do the same thing.  I wound up with the disk being divided into 3 separate partitions.

==END STEP THAT I MISSED AT FIRST ==

6.) Once done with the GPT partitioning, boot Windows 7 in UEFI mode, and then install the necessary NVMe driver from step 4.

7.) Install Win7 into the 'primary' partition of the SSD (this was partition 3 for me).

Installation should go smoothly from there.  I was getting error after error when trying to do steps 6 and 7 without doing step 5 first. 

I hope this was of some help.

I have a Intel 750 400GB Pcie SSD installed

The Sequential Write Speed seems to be about 50% of what it should be when I run AS SSD Benchmark.

The SSD is my Windows 10 OS Drive.

No idea why this is so - any thoughts welcomed

Mick

I have a RAMPAGE IV BLACK EDITION motherboard and after reading about it a bought an Intel 750 Series HHHL (CEM2.0) 400GB PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPEDMW400G4R1.

My mistake... :-(

After failing to boot from SSD… at Intel site I noticed  the “Before you Buy” link that says:

A system based on an Intel® Z97 Chipset or an Intel® X99 Chipset.

My question: Is Intel going to support X79 chipsets in nearby future or I have to sell my NEW SSD 750 because a can’t boot from it?

Is there any other way I can boot from Intel 750 SSD with my Asus RAMPAGE IV BLACK EDITION motherboard Intel® X79 Express Chipset.

Thank you all in advance

Hello,

I have an Intel 750 1.2Tbyte drive 2.5 inch model. I want to use it as a second hard drive on a Dell computer. i don't need to boot from it.

It is not currently recognized in the BIOS. I have tried it with the supplied cable as my mother board has the appropriate plug/socket. I have also tried plugging it into the U.2 connectors that come with my desktop case at the back of the slots/trays where you can add hard drives. Neither work.

Do I need to supply additional power via the SATA power connector that breaks out of the supplied cable? If so, what connector do I need? My computer has plenty of 6 pin PCIe power connectors but I have not been able to find a cable that would simply link from these to the supplied connector.

I have to say that it is very disappointing that there appear to be no instructions with the hard drive and the information I have found on line is not very clear.

Hope someone can help.

B

Nick

I have 4 of the Intel SSD 520 120GB drives,

One of them, the Windows drive C is showing warning in SMART about:

"AA Available Reserved Space

E8 Available Reserved Space

Contact your reseller or local Intel represantive for assistance."

So i don't know how to solve this.

All the drives have 5 years warrenty, and they are 3 years old now.

Any help would been appreciated.

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 ?

I tried to install the Intel data migration software to migrate data from my old HDD to Intel 535 SSD. But it so happened that my windows vista does not detect the ssd for the installation to complete. Looks like the device driver for 535 SSD is different form the regular device drivers that vista has. Can someone suggest on how i could get over this hurdle. Where i could find the device driver for the Intel 535 SSD for windows VISTA. thanks in advance.

Running Ubuntu 14.04.3 with kernel 3.13.0-65-generic on an Intel 535 series ssd which I bought back in September. Ever since I bought it I have been unable to run smart tests on it they always manually abort thought this might be a firmware thing so I just let it go. Recently however my server has been locking up while over ssh, while playing a video over samba it is not for very long but it is annoying because it should not do this. I started out using rg20 firmware but updated this morning to rg21 (ssd toolbox on windows) which does not seem to make a difference. Also ran a full diagnostic test that passed 100% but does not show up under smartctl. I have replaced the sata cable as well which did not make a difference. This is the error:

Oct 16 09:37:54 LANbox kernel: [  107.868025] ata3: lost interrupt (Status 0x50)

Oct 16 09:37:54 LANbox kernel: [  107.868041] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

Oct 16 09:37:54 LANbox kernel: [  107.868046] ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA

Oct 16 09:37:54 LANbox kernel: [  107.868051] ata3.00: cmd c8/00:08:f8:10:48/00:00:00:00:00/e7 tag 0 dma 4096 in

Oct 16 09:37:54 LANbox kernel: [  107.868051]          res 40/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/50 Emask 0x4 (timeout)

Oct 16 09:37:54 LANbox kernel: [  107.868055] ata3.00: status: { DRDY }

Oct 16 09:37:54 LANbox kernel: [  107.868062] ata3: soft resetting link

Oct 16 09:37:55 LANbox kernel: [  108.125815] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133

Oct 16 09:37:55 LANbox kernel: [  108.140593] ata3.01: configured for UDMA/133

Oct 16 09:37:55 LANbox kernel: [  108.140600] ata3.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0

Oct 16 09:37:55 LANbox kernel: [  108.140606] ata3: EH complete

Most of the errors are either write dma, read dma or flush cache errors. I would like to know a few things like is not being able to test your drives with smartmontools a firmware thing? Does it make a difference if it is mounted or not? Could this be a ubuntu kernel issue?

smartctl -a /dev/sda gives the following:

smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.13.0-65-generic] (local build)

Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Device Model:     INTEL SSDSC2BW120H6

Serial Number:    CVTR518200KG120AGN

LU WWN Device Id: 5 5cd2e4 14c81df6b

Firmware Version: RG21

User Capacity:    120,034,123,776 bytes [120 GB]

Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical

Rotation Rate:    Solid State Device

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

ATA Version is:   ACS-3 (minor revision not indicated)

SATA Version is:  SATA >3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)

Local Time is:    Fri Oct 16 10:43:17 2015 CST

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.

SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:

Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity

                                        was never started.

                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.

Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed

                                        without error or no self-test has ever

                                        been run.

Total time to complete Offline

data collection:                ( 2930) seconds.

Offline data collection

capabilities:                    (0x7f) SMART execute Offline immediate.

                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.

                                        Abort Offline collection upon new

                                        command.

                                        Offline surface scan supported.

                                        Self-test supported.

                                        Conveyance Self-test supported.

                                        Selective Self-test supported.

SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering

                                        power-saving mode.

                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.

Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.

                                        General Purpose Logging supported.

Short self-test routine

recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.

Extended self-test routine

recommended polling time:        (  58) minutes.

Conveyance self-test routine

recommended polling time:        (   4) minutes.

SCT capabilities:              (0x0025) SCT Status supported.

                                        SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

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       -       629

12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       22

170 Unknown_Attribute       0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0

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       -       2

183 Runtime_Bad_Block       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       9

184 End-to-End_Error        0x0033   100   100   090    Pre-fail  Always       -       0

187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0032   029   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       29 (Min/Max 20/36)

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       2

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1

225 Unknown_SSD_Attribute   0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       5785

226 Unknown_SSD_Attribute   0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       65535

227 Unknown_SSD_Attribute   0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       60

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

232 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0033   100   100   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0

233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       5785

242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       10620

249 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       2519

SMART Error Log not supported

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1

Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error

# 1  Extended offline    Aborted by host               90%       629         -

# 2  Extended offline    Aborted by host               90%        17         -

# 3  Short offline       Aborted by host               90%        16         -

# 4  Extended offline    Aborted by host               90%         5         -

# 5  Short offline       Aborted by host               90%         5         -

# 6  Extended offline    Aborted by host               90%         5         -

# 7  Extended offline    Aborted by host               90%         5         -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1

SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS

    1        0        0  Not_testing

    2        0        0  Not_testing

    3        0        0  Not_testing

    4        0        0  Not_testing

    5        0        0  Not_testing

Selective self-test flags (0x0):

  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.

If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

Anyone know why the endurance rating is the same for all sizes? Usually the larger the disk the higher the number or writes per day it will support.

We are looking at purchasing some 1.2TB devices for a write through read cache solution. Plan was to increase the overcommit so we are only using 1TB

The way the cache solution works means that the data isn't important, if it fails it will be read from another source, but we were hoping to get a bit more than 70GB a day. I appreciate we should get more anyway as the endurance is often conservative, but I would expect the 1.2TB drives to have a higher endurance specification, maybe not 3X the 400GB devices but even 1.5X (105GB per day) would be a step in the right direction.

Just wondering why intel are sticking with the same specification for the entire range

I am trying to install the NVMe drivers for my new Intel 750 SSD (PCI-E form factor) on Windows 10. I have tried both the installer and the Have Disk methods, but both of them display a message saying something to the effect of "The driver already being used is good enough". I looked at the driver details and it is dated 1/21/2006 and I assume it is the default driver that comes with Windows. Why isn't my drive updating properly???

I got the driver to install the first time I loaded Windows 10 on my new drive, but I re-installed the OS after messing something else up. And now the driver won't install anymore.

I also tried re-installing Windows (clean install) and loading the driver during the install process, but that doesn't work either.

I'm at my wit's end on this issue, if anyone could help me I'd appreciate it!

hi to all

like title i would like to create a raid system with 2 sm951 nvme on my sabertooth x99

the bios see both,

both are bootable.

irst version in bios are update (ver. 14 )

but in bios setup section to create raid disk aren't listed.

can anyone helpme?

thanks

parrotts !

Is it possible to cofigure hardware (i.e. bootable) raid 0 of two PCIe type SSD 750 on any of Z97, X99, or Z170 motherboards?

Thanks.

I have a Intel 750 400GB Pcie SSD installed

The Sequential Write Speed seems to be about 50% of what it should be when I run AS SSD Benchmark.

The SSD is my Windows 10 OS Drive.

No idea why this is so - any thoughts welcomed

Mick