Corsair Force Series 3 slow

Red Arrow · 27 Aug 2011 at 16:34

I purchased a Corsair Force Series 3 SSD drive the other day and after running some benchmark tests I've discovered it's getting now where near it's true potential. I'm getting a read/write speed of 202/138 MB/s yet the drive is rated to get over 500MB/s each way.

I have a Gigabyte GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 motherboard, the drive is connected to the SATA 3 port, normal HD is connected to a SATA 2 port.

I replaced the SATA cable with different one, which says on the side that it's rated for 6/3Gbps. AHCI is enabled in the BIOS and both the BIOS and firmware on the drive itself have been updated.

Any ideas? Screenshot of my test results.

Intel Core i5 2500K
Gigabyte GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3, Intel Z68.

Fanatic · 27 Aug 2011 at 17:00

Use ATTO benchmark for Sandforce SSDs

Red Arrow · 27 Aug 2011 at 17:30

OK thanks, I've run it and got these results.

I have no idea if that is good or not, can someone please let me know

Chay525 · 28 Aug 2011 at 13:26

Hey, For the Corsair SSD's you should use ATTO, I can see that you have used it for the second tests you ran and to me they looks fine, I Have the 60gb model and had a similar problem when i first installed it, make sure the mode is set to ACHI and C1E support is disabled as well in your bios if it keeps playing up.

EDIT*

The write speed does look a little bit low I guess?