Half Speed - Sandisk Ultra II 240GB

blakka · 31 Dec 2015 at 14:24

Just installed a Sandisk Ultra II 240GB as my primary drive with OS.

However after running AS SSD it's clear that I am not getting full speeds from the drive. :confused:

AHCI is set in the bios.

My motherboard is Sata III 6Gbs capable.

Only thing which I can think of causing the issue is the Sata cable.

Any thoughts guys.

Cheers

Nigel

ED209 · 31 Dec 2015 at 14:56

what make is the motherboard?

have you checked that all ports are set to ACHI?

on my motherboard i have the option to set my sata 6 ports and sata 3 ports to ACHI and IDE

also try HD tune and see if you get the same speeds

marc2003 · 31 Dec 2015 at 15:01

Are all the ports on your mobo Sata3? I have an el cheapo H81 board and only 2 ports are Sata3 and the other 2 are Sata2.

blakka · 31 Dec 2015 at 15:10

Cheers for the advice guys, I was in the middle of posting you a link to my motherboard specs then I "actually" read the specs and realised my mobo only supports 3Gbs! All makes sense now. I must have got the specs mixed up with my old mobo which died.

I guess it's upgrade time

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Cheers for the help.

ED209 · 31 Dec 2015 at 15:17

upgrade or stick with what you have.

mine are running on sata 2 ports and i can still notice a difference over a HDD for speed.

i have a x58 system and the marvel controller for the sata 3 ports is crap and cant reach the full speeds lol

blakka · 31 Dec 2015 at 15:23

ED209, I think I will do exactly that, will stick with what I have until I see a deal online or in the MM for a better Mobo, until then even at Sata 2 speeds the performance increase over my old HDD is huge.

Cheers

Disco_P · 31 Dec 2015 at 16:01

I noticed zero difference between sata 2 and sata 3 when using my ssds for OS and gaming. Long sequential reads and writes are very uncommon for most people.

I actually forgot I did it until someone asked for a benchmark when I remembered - months down the line.