Slow SSD

mushtafa · 11 May 2020 at 20:07

I noticed my SSD speeds are slower than they should be.

I installed Samsung Magician to check the firmware is up to date.

I've tried Googling but not been able to fix it. Any ideas please?

mushtafa · 11 May 2020 at 21:12

The whole PC is past it's best!

mushtafa · 11 May 2020 at 21:19

Connected to port 6 which is labeled GSATA3_6/7 6Gb/s Marvell 9128 (Page 30 of the manual)

mushtafa · 11 May 2020 at 21:34

no idea what said:
Ideal. Is it in ACHI mode?

As far as I can tell, yes.

Magician is saying AHCI mode is on, and it's set to on in the BIOS.

I just found the Marvell driver on their website, couldn't remember if I had installed it or not. It made no difference.

mushtafa · 11 May 2020 at 21:35

mushtafa · 11 May 2020 at 21:47

I'll give that a go tomorrow. You think the Sata 2 Intel port would be quicker than the Sata 3 Marvell?

Found a later version of Magician, this has given different speeds.

Is there better software for checking this?

mushtafa · 11 May 2020 at 22:18

I'll try it tomorrow and report back

mushtafa · 12 May 2020 at 19:24

Decided to use Crystal Disk Mark, and the sata 2 port is quicker!

Marvell Sata 3 port

Intel Sata 2 port

Sata 2 with Rapid mode enabled. I can only assume those numbers aren't actually right. But I'll keep it turned on for the time being. Can't see how it'll do any harm

mushtafa · 12 May 2020 at 19:34

I read it uses the RAM as cache. I'll leave it on and see what happens.