Just bought a new ssd and im not getting the expected speeds?

spoony77 · 25 Sep 2018 at 15:13

Hi people
I've just cloned my old old old Crucial M4 64gd ssd onto a brand new crucial BX500 120gb expecting a boost in performance.
However using the crystaldiskmark software i'm getting slower reads on the newer drive than the old one?
The new one is advertised as being 540mb/s read and 500mb/s write but I'm only getting 400mb/s reads and 357mb/s writes?
Its on a sata 3 connector what else could be holding it back?
Any advice appreciated

rhysduck · 25 Sep 2018 at 15:31

Cable SATA3 compatible?
Drivers for motherboard installed and uptodate?

On Holiday · 25 Sep 2018 at 16:13

spoony77 · 25 Sep 2018 at 16:15

There's no exclamation marks in device manager so I assume all drivers are installed correctly but I haven't manually installed any it's an old z77 motherboard from asrock.....

Armageus · 25 Sep 2018 at 16:44

Which Crystaldiskmark results are you looking at?

There are some to compare to here:
https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/crucial_bx500_480_gb_ssd_review,13.html

An M4 64GB will have hugely lower write speeds, but sequential read may be similar.

spoony77 · 25 Sep 2018 at 16:52

I'm looking at my own results in crystaldiskmark. All the reviews say even the 120gb of this bx500 should be getting 530/500.....

Armageus · 25 Sep 2018 at 16:53

spoony77 said:
I'm looking at my own results in crystaldiskmark. All the reviews say even the 120gb of this bx500 should be getting 530/500.....

Sequential or 4k random?

spoony77 · 25 Sep 2018 at 17:02

Im new to this software but it's the top result sequential I assume - Seq q32T1

spoony77 · 26 Sep 2018 at 10:04

For anyone else that might have been interested in this issue, I've now sorted it and am getting full advertised speeds.
Apparently this motherboard has sata ports via different chipsets and even though the Asmedia chipsets are labelled as Sata 3 they aren't full fat....
Switched to the Intel ports and now whizzing along at full speed.
Very impressed for £23!!

Maundie · 26 Sep 2018 at 16:04

Came in to say make sure your plugged into a Intel chipset port as I had this issue many moons ago, once resolved I like yourself was a very happy bunny, glad you sorted it.