SSD Running slow?

Sharpz

Sharpz

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Just bought the Kingston Hyper X 240gb. installed it today, switched it to AHCI and installed windows, finally got round to installing other things and decided to download HDtune to see what read speeds i am getting. HD tune says only 250-60mb's shouldn't it be 550? don't know whats wrong
 
Thats only SATA II natively, you using the Marvell ports? Those are terrible anyhow, rather use the Intel at SATA 2 speeds hehe.
 
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Try it on the Intel controllers, honestly the diff is not really noticeable in normal application.. Problem is, all of the 'addon' cards that are relatively cheap seem to be based on the Marvell chipset which i've not had much praise of to say the least. I'm using an IBM ServeRAID M1015 on an older Q35 motherboard with a few 2tb in RAID one with an Agility 3 in jbod mode, getting the proper SATA 3 speeds with 500 odd read and write. The Startech pcie 1x (says it all right there) marvell thing barely cracked 300 odd.
 
Try ATTO benchmark first as some benchmarking programs don't read SSD to while
 
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tried moving it to the other sata port and i got bootmanager error.
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How many disks in your system? The boot manager might be on a different disk that you possibly moved port/disconnected? Put everything back how it was and check disk managment to see where the boot manager lies.
 
managed to get it working with another format, but it seemed a lot slower in the port you suggested, everytime i move ports it comes up bootmanager but it's fixed with a format :confused: . anyway back in supposed sata 3 port. i guess its time for a motherboard upgrade :(

btw, 3 disks on system, 2x 1tb seagate, 1x kingston SSD 240gb
 
You're looking at a platform upgrade, no 1366 board will have native SATA III controllers :( To be honest, i would not go to such drastic measures for an almost imperceptible speed difference unless you were looking to upgrade anyhow. I'd just use the marvell and be done with it for now.
 
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You're looking at a platform upgrade, no 1366 board will have native SATA III controllers :( To be honest, i would not go to such drastic measures for an almost imperceptible speed difference unless you were looking to upgrade anyhow. I'd just use the marvell and be done with it for now.
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well its currently reading at 250mb, is it not worth an extra 250mb of read speed? i would have thought it would make a massive difference.
 
Stop panicing and use ATTO like suggested to check the fastest speed. ATTO also uses compressed data and will show you the advertised speeds.

Here is a link to a review of the Kingston Hyper X 240gb to help you catch the drift :)
 
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well its currently reading at 250mb, is it not worth an extra 250mb of read speed? i would have thought it would make a massive difference.
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You're going to have to change cpu, motherboard and possibly cooling solution for a marginal increase in speed? I can put you on two machines in my house, both SB with native SATA III, one running an agility 3 and the other a Vertex 2E at SATA II speed of course, i'd bet money you could not tell me which is which in virtually all applications. SSDs are more quick by their virtue of having rapid access time, not how much mb/sec they can push out. Of course the enhanced mb/sec can come into play if you do things that utilise it, but day to day usage - not likely.
 
As above, don't change unless you were planning to soon any way. I've got the same issue but decided to hold off at least until the new Intel chips (Ivybridge) come out next year.
 
He doesn't need to upgrade anything, his drive is preforming as it should, check out the review I linked earlier... He's only going to see 550 speed in certain tests.
 
As above you probably wont notice the difference. Stick with what you have and then when you do really need/want to upgrade to a new socket you will unlock the faster transfer speeds. There quick cus of the access time.
 
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