Thanks guys for your feedbacks.

We're now waiting for Mirco's post about his new SSD...

Any word on a SSD that works or a solution for this?

I think of installing the freaking slow spinning HDD again because the SSD not booting problem pi**es me off from day to day....

Stephan

I haven't yet tried replacing the hard disk in my BM5 for an SSD but have been looking through the BIOS settings in case there was anything there that might shed some light on the issues.

One thing I spotted was a setting for 'DRDY_Timing' which by default is set to 'Optimize'.

I found the following information about this BIOS option online:-

DRDY Timing

Common Options : Slowest, Default, Optimize

Quick Review

This BIOS feature determines how quickly IDE or Serial ATA devices in the system are made available to the host controller after they execute their read or write commands.

When set to Default, the IDE or Serial ATA device will retain its default DRDY timing.

When set to Slowest, the IDE or Serial ATA device will use a slower DRDY timing. This increases the time for the device to be ready for the next command, after it completes its task.

When set to Optimize, the IDE or Serial ATA device will use a faster DRDY timing. This decreases the time for the device to be ready for the next command, after it completes its task.

For maximum performance, you should set this BIOS feature to Optimize. This allows for faster access to the IDE and Serial ATA devices, improving their performance.

However, if this results in crashes or data corruption, you should revert to the Default setting. You should only set this BIOS feature to Slowest in rare occasions where the IDE or Serial ATA device actually requires a longer time to be ready.

Would one of you who has swapped the drive for an SSD and is having problems like to try changing this setting to 'Default' or even 'Slowest' and report back as to whether it makes any difference?

Martin.

Hi.

I can confirm that I encountered the same problems with the Samsung 840. So I swapped it with an Crucial M500 480GB. The Crucial is working without any problems. Since this SSD is slightly smaller then my original 500GB hard drive it was a little more work to set it up. Just using the "clone HDD" is not working.

Atle.

Thanks Atle,

So, do you find that your BS5 is like a new one : really fast and fluid ?

Pity the clone process doesn't work ! 🙁

riverstyx wrote:

I haven't yet tried replacing the hard disk in my BM5 for an SSD but have been looking through the BIOS settings in case there was anything there that might shed some light on the issues.

One thing I spotted was a setting for 'DRDY_Timing' which by default is set to 'Optimize'.

I found the following information about this BIOS option online:-

 DRDY Timing

Common Options : Slowest, Default, Optimize

Hello,

just to give some Feedback, I tried the three BIOS options with no effect on my Samsung 840 Pro SSD.

Is there a positive list of working SSDs with the BeoMaster?

Not working:

- Samsung 840 EVO - 1 TB -

- Samsung 840 Pro - 500 GB -

Best regards

Stephan

DocLeisure wrote:

just to give some Feedback, I tried the three BIOS options with no effect on my Samsung 840 Pro SSD.

Thanks for trying that Stephan. Shame it made no difference...

Had original success with a Samsung 840 EVO - 1 TB unit, but then it quickly failed.

Not certain what caused the SSD to boot properly, then to fail to boot at all after a few cycles. I suspect that it is something to do with problematic booting of the EVO SSD with XP and automatic updating. On initial installation only 1 in 3 manual boots were successful and could not be left alone to work automatically.

I have not bothered to try the Crucial SSD - too expensive at the moment to buy again with a lot of cash sunk into EVO SSD's and no guarantee that it would work.

Instead, I opted for a 1TB WD Velociraptor Hybrid Drive with built 64Gb SSD buffer.

Everything works and works fast and fluid-like - just like the SSD did initially. I think this is the reliable and cheaper solution to a SSD with similar speed. It is effectively a 2.5in 10,000rpm HDD with a substantial heat sink and runs at half the price of the comparable SSD.

 Job done until BM5 is EOL.

10

Thanks for your feedback Mr 10Percent,

I see you use a 1TB HDD. You don't have any trouble ? Because it's not a 500GB, and some said the capacity must be the same that the BM5 original HDD.

Do you really feel the change ? More fluid, faster,... ?

I'm very tempted...

Steph wrote:

I see you use a 1TB HDD. You don't have any trouble ? Because it's not a 500GB, and some said the capacity must be the same that the BM5 original HDD.

Capacity shouldn't matter, it just makes adds a step to the cloning process as the music partition needs to be expanded if you want to take advantage of the extra space. I'm running a 2TB disk in my BM5 without any issues (2TB is the limit though as Windows XPe doesn't support more than 2TB).

I'm curious about what is more fluid, or more to the point what others find is not when using the original HDD, as I haven't really encountered any lack of or slow response issues with my BM5/BS5 even with the original HDD (with the exception of when it's ripping or doing a database rebuild etc in the background, at which times the user interface could feel a little laggy). Obviously boot times should be considerably improved with an SSD (or Hybrid) though.

Martin.