probook 6560b does not recognize my SSD

[mmaenpaa]

Hi,

I can confirm that Samsung 830 series (MZ-7PC128) works (HP Probook 6560B). Of course I have been testing only for one day. Customer will do the long term test 🙂

F.22 bios was required for HP.

I flashed Samsung firmware to version CXM02B1Q, but it worked fine with previous firmware also.

And "only" at SATA II (AS SSD becnhmarks around 255MB/S and Intel driver confirms)

Hope this helps.

Markku

[Slym]

I tried the new F22 BIOS and was able too boot my Windows 7 install from a Crucial M4 256GB REV9 (then upgraded to REV0309).

One weird thing though, It worked great with an Acronis restore of my existing system but I wasn't able to boot from a fresh install of Win7. It may comes from my Win7 install but it's still weird because you can boot it from the CD but not directly from the disk.

I'm working right now on my SSD and performances are quite good :

[6560b_owner]

@Slym: no, they're not. Your drive is able to deliver 500 MB/s sequential read (say 480MB/s when full),

and you get only 270-280MB/s.

That means, on a proper sata-III link, your seq. read performance would increase by 100%. ..

But as we know, that does not mean 'your system would be twice as fast',

because that depens on non-sequential stuff mostly.

By the way, your 4K-write troughput(and 64 4K write troughput, but less so) seems poor.

This may depend on your drive, but with 256GB capacity, these values should be higher. You mainly bought an expensive ssd because their 4K / 4K 64T values are higher.

I would test again with AS SSD, which also displays useful information about the drive in the upper left corner.

It'l let you know if you run in IDE mode  (IDE mode => bad performance) and which driver you're using.

[Slym]

I know it's only SATA2 that's why I said it was not so bad (270MBps is near the 300MBps of SATA2 link).

4K write performances were wrongly reported by CrystalDiskMark. Here is another run :

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 270.565 MB/s
Sequential Write : 218.636 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 237.800 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 203.118 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 18.541 MB/s [ 4526.5 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 43.516 MB/s [ 10624.1 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 178.339 MB/s [ 43539.8 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 195.418 MB/s [ 47709.4 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 43.4% (103.3/238.4 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2012/01/23 18:43:49
OS : Windows 7 Enterprise Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

An here another one with AS SSD Benchmark 1.6.4237.30508 :

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Name: M4-CT256M4SSD2 ATA Device
Firmware: 0309
Controller: msahci
Offset: 103424 K - OK
Size: 238,47 GB
Date: 23/01/2012 18:45:58
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Sequential:
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Read: 266,90 MB/s
Write: 236,98 MB/s
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4K:
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Read: 16,68 MB/s
Write: 39,29 MB/s
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4K-64Threads:
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Read: 162,02 MB/s
Write: 172,23 MB/s
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Access Times:
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Read: 0,156 ms
Write: 0,415 ms
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Score:
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Read: 205
Write: 235
Total: 550
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[eatdonutz]

Hi All,

Thanks for putting so much time and effort into this thread.  I gather that the best option is to upgrade the firmware to F. 22; however, my corporate IT department won't give me the password to the BIOS, so I don't think I can upgrade.

Thus, I'm stuck on F. 20 firmware (Bios Rev. 68SCE, 9/29/2011).  Can anyone recommend a SSD make and model that works on F. 20?

Thanks!

EDIT: added more details to my firmare version information

[juterjung76]

I have got a C300 128GB, i find the writespeed ~110mb is a bit slow? I have had this drive at my PC there it was higher. 

Any ideas?

THX

I found it out myself, the ALIGNMENT SIZE is wrong i ordered PARAGON ALIGNMENT TOOL. Another problem is that now windws tells me there is no space on the other partitions left. is  there a free tool with less risk to size the partiions?

[ptichdown]

Hello,

can somebody confirm the vortex 3 is working with the latest bios-update?

Which other Sata III disk of 256 GB will work with this notebook for sure?

[6560b_owner]

We can't gurantee anything, as with these problems, even installed firmware versions on the drive could be important.

But that said: since the firmware upgrade F.22, there have been no reports here of drives not beeing recognized. They don't run at 'full speed' (sata-III or 6 Gbit/s that is, one of the fastest connections available), but they work.

128 Gbyte as well as 256 Gbyte models as well as Sandforce controllers are used in the known working drives, so you have a good chance your OCZ Vertex 3 256GB will work,too.

In many countries, there is some kind of 7-14 days return option on shipped hardware, so you won't have losses if the drive decides not to work. That helped me with my first Kingston Hyper-X I had to return when the problem still existed. (Quite some time before F.22 bios)

[Slym]

I have a Crucial M4 256GB with firmware 0309 and BIOS F22 and it's working fine.

[ptichdown]

Hello 6560b_owner,

thanks for the info.

What will be the max. speed available for sata III ssd drives for this notebook?

Or will the speed the same as sata II drives?

Best Regards