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Jonas Issak

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Hey, i just bought this brand new Kingston SSDNow V300 - 120 GB SSD, but I'm getting so low write/read speeds. It's plugged in to a SATA II port, tho. It still shouldn't be this low, should it?

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Never mind, I'm getting great speeds with ATTO:
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RetiredChief

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What Benchmark Software did you use. Manuf use ATT which uses Highly compressable data. Scores using say AS SSD will have lower performance for some SSDs, primarly ones using the Sandforce controller.

Down Load and install then run AS SD. DO NOT need to run the benchmark. Just open the program and look at the upper left, should see:
.. Driver: DO NOT want to see pcde = BAD.
.. Alignment: want to see "OK"

Added, I see you did use ATTO.
AS SSD link to check driver and alignment.
http://alex-is.de/PHP/fusion/downloads.php?download_id=9
 
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Check in your bios to see if your running in IDE or AHCI mode for your SATA settings. You want to be in AHCI mode but you can't simply switch it, if you do you will have issues booting into your os. There are some work arounds to make it work on google or you can do a fresh OS install after you have switched to AHCI.
 
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That sounds about right, remember you can only go as fast as your slowest drive, so your HDD is holding back the full speed of the SSD.
 
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burdenbound

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You can try copying a file within your SSD to another location on your SSD and see the difference in performance, although this still isn't the best way to show the full speed of your drive because you will be reading and writing at the same time from the same drive. If you had a second SSD and transferred files between the two you would see a huge speed bump.

You can also download hard drive performance software to see if everything is normal. I use crystaldiskmark http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html
 
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RetiredChief

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"You can try copying a file within your SSD to another location on your SSD"
Not a good test, as this is a very quick change in the FAT pointer - It Does not really copy data/file from one location to a different location. Even on a SLOW HDD this is a very fast operation.

Do the check I mentioned for Driver/Partition alignment.
 
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I too do not fancy too much only on benchmark tests, as these can be tweaked at times. I usally feel comfy doing real tests on both compressible/in-compressible stuffs to gauge the speeds, especially on my sandforce based SSDs. I am sure you will notice a gap between this test & a benchmark test
 
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