I run FSX on a laptop with this model Samsung SSD: MMDOE28G5MPP-0VA. I upgraded from windows Vista to 7 (not clean upgrade), but I later had a problem with my antivirus and had to do a clean install. Now, I have the default Microsoft driver for this SSD and it is not performing correctly. I did a benchmark test with CrystalDiskMark, and got results similar to the benchmarks my SSD should get, according to Samsung. Unfortunately, I recorded airplanes at my airport's aircraft viewing area, but my SSD doesn't perform correctly when playing back HD video recorded with HD camcorder (video plays find on camcorder which has a regular hard drive, but the video tends to lag sometimes when playing back on my laptop with SSD.) I suspect this is due to me not having the correct driver. Does anyone know the name of the driver for this SSD so I can get optimal performance? I have been doing research and have seen things like the Intel AHCI and Intel Matrix Storage Manager. Can someone please tell me if these are the drivers I need to install, and if not, which are the drivers I need to install.Thanks.

Its more likely that your laptop isn't powerful enough to play HD video, if the SSD benches fine then it can't be the SSD. Most people actually recommend you use the MS drivers for SSD's anyway, certain intel matrix drivers are badly broken.

Its more likely that your laptop isn't powerful enough to play HD video, if the SSD benches fine then it can't be the SSD. Most people actually recommend you use the MS drivers for SSD's anyway, certain intel matrix drivers are badly broken.

I have a Sony Vaio, and one of the things that I bought it for was HD, it was even advertised for that. Anyways, I have a core 2 duo t9800 @2.93ghz. Ati Mobility Radeon 3650 with 512 mb of VRam. 8 gb of DDR2 Ram @ 800mhz, and the SSD. It has a bluray player (I know this has nothing to do with the SSD, but I say this to show that my graphics card and processor can handle playing HD video.) It must be the SSD because the camcorder plays back the video in HD with a standard harddrive and it performs well. On a side note, just to be sure, it is not that the HD video stutters so badly that it isn't watchable, no, only sometimes it slightly stutters, but I didn't used to have this problem before I had to clean installl windows and had the original driver for my SSD. Also, I know the SSD benches fine like I said, but the thing it does well in in the test is the sequential read and write, but during random read and write, it doesn't perform how an SSD should perform.

Just in case I was wrong, are these normal benchmarks for an SSD?

Just because a laptop/desktop has a blu-ray player, it doesn't mean that the computer can necessarily run HD. When playing a Blu-Ray movie off the disk in the drive, the data is coming straight from the disk, meaning it will run no matter what specs your computer has. Look at a PS3. It is basically a computer, it has RAM, a processor, a graphics chip and a laptop HD. It's specs are nowhere near at the standard of your laptop, yet it can play blu-ray movies/games smoothly because they are being run from the disk, not the processing parts.

Just because a laptop/desktop has a blu-ray player, it doesn't mean that the computer can necessarily run HD. When playing a Blu-Ray movie off the disk in the drive, the data is coming straight from the disk, meaning it will run no matter what specs your computer has. Look at a PS3. It is basically a computer, it has RAM, a processor, a graphics chip and a laptop HD. It's specs are nowhere near at the standard of your laptop, yet it can play blu-ray movies/games smoothly because they are being run from the disk, not the processing parts.

You are completely right and I understand what you are saying, but in a way, your specs ca determine if you can play a bluray movie. For example, I know that, as you said, modern computers, even the really low-end ones can probably play a bluray if equipped with a drive, but If you take, for example, a graphics card and/or processor from say, the 80's or something or a graphics card/processor from when computers first reached the home, they will most likely not play a bluray. On my desktop, I also clean-installed (upgrade) windows 7. It wasn't supported by Sony for the upgrade from Vista and so I couldn't find a driver for it's Nvidia card (the ones on the Nvidia site didn't work for some reason). I even tried playing a simple video and the video was literally playing at around 6 FPS; this isn't necesarily a low spec problem, but it does show how graphics card and maybe even processors play a role in playing back videos (I you are wondering, I eventually found a working sort of hacked driver, which has been working to this day). Of course as I and you said before, practically any computer nowadays can play a bluray movie if equipped with a disc, and I completely understand what you are saying, but in my opinion, the specs do matter (of course, nowadays they really make no difference, but in all they do mater from my experiences.Anyways, do you guys think I can run HD video with my specs and SSD benchmarks? Also can someone clarify my driver problem to see if maybe that will help (even if it turns out my specs aren't sufficient, I would still like to try the driver to see what that will do, so anyone who knows what driver that SSD uses, please tell me).

Your specs should be sufficient. I have seen $300 computers run a blu-ray movie at HD on playback with very little stutters. I think tere is something wrong with one of your components.

Your specs should be sufficient. I have seen $300 computers run a blu-ray movie at HD on playback with very little stutters. I think tere is something wrong with one of your components.

I agree with you, and as I said in my previous post, specs really don't make a significant difference in modern times because even the lowest end computers are powerfulenough to play a bluray if they have a bluray drive. I also agree with you when you say that it is one of my components. I think it is my SSD driver because my porcessor and graphics card have the correct non-Windows driver. Only my SSD doesn't have a non-Windows driver but has a standard windows driver, and my SSD wasn't experiencing any stutters (despite the fact that my stutters are barely noticeable, but before I used to get none) when I had the correct driver for my SSD. Do you think that the benchmarks I got with my SSD are sufficient in speed to play HD movies from the drive? If not then simply my SSD isn't fast enough (which I doubt). And if you do think the benchmarks are enough, then please help me on what the name of the driver that that SSD uses is because it is here where I am at a loss.

Even your lowest benchmark result of 19.57MB/s is more than enought to play a Blu-ray movie in HD. Is there any chance of driver corruption for the drive ie, old drivers conflicting with new drivers or more than one driver installed for the SSD? Try uninstalling all drivers for your SSD, then deleting the driver folders which may be hidden. Then try reinstalling a set of drivers. See if this helps.

Even your lowest benchmark result of 19.57MB/s is more than enought to play a Blu-ray movie in HD. Is there any chance of driver corruption for the drive ie, old drivers conflicting with new drivers or more than one driver installed for the SSD? Try uninstalling all drivers for your SSD, then deleting the driver folders which may be hidden. Then try reinstalling a set of drivers. See if this helps.

As you might realize, I do not have much experience with hard/ssd drivers. If I uninstall the driver, will I be able to work with the computer since the O.S. won't be able to communicate properly with the SSD? Also, I don't have problems running blurays, but running HD-recorded movies directly from my SSD. I also just noticed that the bitrate of the movie is around 25mb/sec. Does this have to do with anything? Also, I know that you said that my SSD is fast enough to run the movie, but is it getting similar benchmarks as a regular working SSD would get? I am sorry for all of the questions in only one post. Thanks for your help, I appreciate it.

It's hard to say with SSD's because they all have varying speeds and therefore different benchmarks. However I believe that those speeds are well above a 10k RPM HD so for your SSD I'm taking those are probably right. For exampe, my SSD's have a sequential read of just over 200MB/s and seq. right of 130MB/s. So it's hard to say for sure without knowing what the Speeds SHOULD be.Is your OS on the SSD? Or is it on another drive with only games/random data on the SSD? As for the movie bitrate, this is the amount of data per second of the video. In your case every second of video is 25 MB in size. This could mean that your HD or your processor cannot process that amount of data per second. Unless maybe your graphics card isn't sufficient to run HD videos?

It's hard to say with SSD's because they all have varying speeds and therefore different benchmarks. However I believe that those speeds are well above a 10k RPM HD so for your SSD I'm taking those are probably right. For exampe, my SSD's have a sequential read of just over 200MB/s and seq. right of 130MB/s. So it's hard to say for sure without knowing what the Speeds SHOULD be.Is your OS on the SSD? Or is it on another drive with only games/random data on the SSD? As for the movie bitrate, this is the amount of data per second of the video. In your case every second of video is 25 MB in size. This could mean that your HD or your processor cannot process that amount of data per second. Unless maybe your graphics card isn't sufficient to run HD videos?

Yes my O.S. Is on my SSD. My grapics I know is sort of a "middle class" card but it is advertised as an HD card so I suspect it is capable. I also doubt that it is my processor, but what do you think, do you think my t9800 (core 2 duo @ 2.93 ghz) is enough to run the video? Anyways I think it is my SSD driver because the video has a high bitrate but my SSD access indicator switch doesn't blink that fast (as it usually does when working at close maximum potential). This is why I suspect of my driver, but I want your opinion to see if maybe it's my processor (but I doubt it). Anyways, you mentioned you had an SSD. What type of driver do you use for it? If you have the default Microsoft driver, does it work well for you?

I don't think it's your processor now. That processor is capable. I'm still worried about your graphics card. It's a low end graphics card used in budget computers and I don't think it would be capable. I have SSDs yes, but they are Corsair and get the Corsair drivers from their website. If you think it's driver issues, contact samsung. They should provide some support. Also search their forums.

I don't think it's your processor now. That processor is capable. I'm still worried about your graphics card. It's a low end graphics card used in budget computers and I don't think it would be capable. I have SSDs yes, but they are Corsair and get the Corsair drivers from their website. If you think it's driver issues, contact samsung. They should provide some support. Also search their forums.

As you said, I know my graphics card is the lowest component of my laptop, but I think it would be able to handle the video as it is still an HD card. As for the drivers, I have contacted Sameung chat support, but the people working there basically don't know that much about computers and everytime, they send me an automated message saying that my topic is too "complicated" and I need specialized help so I should call them (and I only ask them were I can the driver). So I have to find the time to call to get the driver. I would contact Sony support as they usually are very knowledgable, burly computer turned a year old last month and my one year warranty expired. I'm going to find time to contact Samsung, so I'll post here when I get the driver and say if it worked.

Haven't had time to contact Samsung yet, but I have noticed that the player I use to play the video (which is AVCHD format, by the way) greatly affects the performance. I have been getting these very slight (almost unoticeable) microstutters while playing back the video in Windows Media Player. I tried to play it back in Windows Media Center, to see if the small stutters I have been experiencing would completely go away, but then the video literally was unwatchable and played-back with huge stutters and stops. I also tried VLC Media Player, and got the same result as Media Center. Up until now, the best is Media Player, I will try to see if I can find a good AVCHD player to completely rid me of the microstutters Media Player has.