Help with OCZ Vertex 2 performance

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Hi Ualaa, thank you for the quick response.

Yes, I followed this guide

http://www.ithinkdiff.com/how-to-ena...-installation/

and made the registry changes and then changed my BIOS to enable ahci mode. windows booted up fine, installed the drivers, and I rebooted windows one more time and everything works fine.

Far as I know, I am now in AHCI mode, and I just tested wow again with similar results.

To be fair, the zoning time IS faster than what I was getting before with the mechanical SATA drives; it just doesnt seem close to what everyone else is describing as their personal experience though. (I ported like mad between ironforge/stormwind/darnassus/exodar/hellfire peninsula and got anywhere from 2 to 7 seconds zone time. nothing dramatically better than what I had before with my old drives. this is again with only one instance of wow)

I just tried to test copy a 5 gig folder from the SSD drive to the SSD drive. Initially I got over 250 mb/s according to windows but the speed almost immediately dropped off and after 5-6 seconds or so I was only copying the folder at about 79-81 mb/s.

Is this normal? Or do I just have inaccurate expectations?