Intel 510 and Asus U3S6

Tweaker · 4 Apr 2011 at 16:39

My brother bought the intel 510, seeing as he has no SATA 6 ports he bought the Asus U3S6 add in card. Windows installs fine and the SSD works, but the speeds are a little less that he hoped.

Comparing to a review site, his sequential reads are quite different, anyone got any ideas why the speeds are slower?

Review data

My SSD

Tomtom3989 · 4 Apr 2011 at 16:45

they look like sata II speeds, that don't seem write to me,
1) are you sure he using the correct settings (controller and bios and also driver in windows)
2) is he using a SATA III cable

Tweaker · 4 Apr 2011 at 17:07

I installed the controller driver which has made some difference, but the controller posts as being in SATA III mode, still missing some performance, any other bios settings that may be impacting the speed?

pinkpound · 5 Apr 2011 at 11:17

Tweaker my I ask what system your bother is using ?..

As Ive ordered same ssd but Im using same system as your sig and thinking of getting the Asus U3S6 myself

Thanks

sithlord · 5 Apr 2011 at 15:08

OP, what size is the SSD?

Tweaker · 5 Apr 2011 at 18:53

pinkpound said:
Tweaker my I ask what system your bother is using ?..

As Ive ordered same ssd but Im using same system as your sig and thinking of getting the Asus U3S6 myself

Thanks

He has the same board, CPU, RAM as me, just a GTX 570 instead. I think running the SSD as the boot drive is affecting performance slightly.

sithlord said:
OP, what size is the SSD?

120GB

RockLobster · 6 Apr 2011 at 00:04

I have this disk. I'm getting the following with the same settings: -

Seq Read Write
412.4 209.7
512K 310.5 204.1
4K 23.11 47.18
4KQ 86.50 65.80

With this spec: -

Asus P8H67-M Pro Intel H67 (Socket 1155)
G.Skill RipJawsX 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9