Cant get my C300 to run at SATAIII

Zoroaster · 20 Aug 2010 at 16:53

This morning I recieved delivery of a beautiful new Titan Exodus machine.

Mboard: Asus P7P55D-E

It is running like a dream, all except one thing. I bought a c300 seperatly and put windows 7 x64 on it. Having spent almost 4 hours on this now, I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Getting very frustrated

I have ACPI enabled on the marvell controller in the bios. I've updated with the newest version of every driver from the ASUS website.

Can anyone offer me any help?

This is my first time with an SSD.

Theguy · 20 Aug 2010 at 16:57

Have you made sure you have plugged your SSD into the correct port? grey I belive the sata6 should be for the marvell.

Zoroaster · 20 Aug 2010 at 17:01

Yeah .. that's the first theing I checked. It's plugged in with the 6GB cable that came with the MBoard also.

.:SAmSuNG:. · 20 Aug 2010 at 17:09

The controller totally sucked on my UD7. I ended up running them on sata2 until they fix it.

Theguy · 20 Aug 2010 at 19:02

damn it. I was hoping it was something you just overlooked :/

Zoroaster · 21 Aug 2010 at 14:51

Theguy said:
damn it. I was hoping it was something you just overlooked :/

Yeah. I've tried it with the latest Marvell and the default controller ... exactly the same performance. :confused:

kmufc77 · 21 Aug 2010 at 15:51

I have the same drive and when i tried to use sata III on my mobo i had the same issues,im just using sata II now no loss really tbh.

Zoroaster · 22 Aug 2010 at 09:21

There are swarms of people with top class benchmarks of the c300 though ... i cant help but think that there's something i'm not doing correctly, rather than just a 'this will not work'.

Zoroaster · 22 Aug 2010 at 13:08

Problem solved:

The ASUS P7P55D-E Motherboard has an option in the bios called 'IO_Levelup' which allows you to choose USBIII or SATAIII, but not both.

I think this is running at full speed now ...

Cosimo · 22 Aug 2010 at 14:31

That looks ok to me.

Speed · 22 Aug 2010 at 14:34

.:SAmSuNG:. said:
The controller totally sucked on my UD7. I ended up running them on sata2 until they fix it.

So they have actually fixed it on the UD7?

.:SAmSuNG:. · 22 Aug 2010 at 16:02

Dunno mate I sold up a month or 2 ago. I wanted to run them in raid0 anyway so single drives I guess will get fixed before.