M4 slow read and writes can you help ?

garyfl · 16 Sep 2011 at 17:56

initially i had problems after installing my new psu. windows would boot but not get to windows it would bsod. so i ran the repair utility before the windows logon and it ran chkdsk and recovered bad sectors.

works fine now, logs on, has my wd cav black drive in for storage.

now when i run as ssd i get this

i have a sata 3 cable from both cav black and ssd going to the 2 sata 3 ports on the mobo. surely this should be a higher value ? i cant fault the ssd its blazing fast in the real work but if im meant to get better performance id like to think it was working correctly.

hope you can help, thanks.

opethdisciple · 16 Sep 2011 at 18:01

Possibly your windows installation has been corrupted?

What I would do is a fresh install of windows.

garyfl · 16 Sep 2011 at 18:02

hmm i only installed last night. i installed it onto my fresh ssd but only had a sata 2 cable even then had 276mb read. so when i swapped out psus today swapped cables for sata 3 this is what i get after that dodgy chkdsk thing. you sure i should re install ?

VaderDSL · 16 Sep 2011 at 18:02

Change to AHCI in BIOS and reinstall

garyfl · 16 Sep 2011 at 18:03

its set to AHCI already

VaderDSL · 16 Sep 2011 at 18:04

garyfl said:
its set to AHCI already

Hmm it looks like IDE in that screenshot, also does the X58 use the marvell chipset for the SATA III ports?

garyfl · 16 Sep 2011 at 18:05

VaderDSL said:
Hmm it looks like IDE in that screenshot, also does the X58 use the marvell chipset for the SATA III ports?

i believe so, i just installed all the chipset driver to see if anything would give, i remember marvel 91xx something

bradders2000 · 16 Sep 2011 at 18:16

Maybe there are 2 IDE/AHCI type settings you need to be checking?

One for the Intel controller and ther other for the Marvell one.

When it's all sorted and the Marvell drivers have been installed, that 'pciide' bit will change to something Marvellish... 'mv91xx'.

garyfl · 16 Sep 2011 at 18:19

so ill reinstall and clear both hard disks. delete everything off them both. ill reinstall from flash drive then see what happens. its set to ahci in bios

Orcvader · 16 Sep 2011 at 18:26

Those speeds seems normal for the Marvell chipset. Sadly Marvell only gives at best speeds between SATA 2 and 3, but never the full SATA 3 speeds. In some cases they can give speeds worse than SATA 2. There's nothing you can do about it on a X58 build except by jumping to Sandy Bridge.

garyfl · 16 Sep 2011 at 18:43

Well I'm installing now I went to BIOS to check ahci upon doing it I realised I could scroll down and there were more ahcis to enable as well as setting driver to on chip. If that works then I guess it wasn't the reinstall

garyfl · 16 Sep 2011 at 19:40

getting same speeds :/ only the 4k one ( one after read and write) dosent even seem to finish. max 370 read max 160 write

Surveyor · 16 Sep 2011 at 21:04

garyfl said:
getting same speeds :/ only the 4k one ( one after read and write) dosent even seem to finish. max 370 read max 160 write

That's the Marvell controller for you, as per your other thread.