Samsung 840 EVO 120 gb and M5a97 r2.0 mb low performance

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I recently got the Samsung 840 EVO 120gb ssd for my system and am wondering why, even though I have it optimized and in rapid mode, am I getting such low performance on Samsung Magician? here is the screenshot http://oi44.tinypic.com/35mk3cy.jpg , the parts that look pretty low are the write and the random read IOPs, any ideas why and how to fix this? Also I have ACHI on and am connected to a SATA III port, in port 0. Is my drive a dud or something?
 
The Random Reads are a pretty low but the writes aren't that far off. how many times did you run the test? If this drive has the OS on it you also have to understand that the OS is ALSO RUNNING at the same time and accessing the SSD which may show lower speeds than it can be. If that was a new empty drive with nothing on it then i would look into it.

Also unless you doing a lot of heavy reading and writing to that you will NOT notice that 30 MB difference in Write. And not every SSD is the same or performes to exact spec.