Slow SSD max of 199mb/s instead of proposed up to 550MB/s, Slow boot.

CraigReid3

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Mar 31, 2014
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Hi,

I am brand new to this website and kind of a newbie when it comes to hardware. I installed a Sandisk extreme II 480gb into my computer, recently had it built by a custom online computer building website, it just had a standard 2TB hard drive installed which worked fine, I just wanted to install a SSD to make my boot and programs faster.

I connected the SSD with a power cable and a 6gb/s sata cable into my 6gb/s sata connectors on SSD and motherboard. I wiped everything on my previous hard drive and installed brand new windows 7 on SSD. Installed the standard programs onto my pc and left the 2tb hard drive empty. I have noticed that my boot time has barely increased ( about 1 minute), with a more or less empty SSD. I have done a couple of benchmarks on HD Tune and my max read speed is only 199mb/s which is not anywhere near what was advertised. The BIOS is set to AHCI. I have a print screen of the benchmark but I can't find a option to attach it anywhere.

PC Specs

Intel(R) Core™ i7-4820K Quad-Core 4.2Ghz(Overclocked)
750W Supply
16GB (4x4GB) DDR3/2133mhz Quad Channel Memory (Kingston HyperX Predator w/Heat Spreader)
GIGABYTE X79-UP4 Intel X79 Chipset
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 4GB

Thanks in advance if anyone can help me.





Craig


 

XxJessusxX

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for the screenshot you could use a image uploading site like tinypic.com and just use


as for your question regarding speed I'm not entirely sure I own 2x 240GB sandisk extreme SSD's each gets about 400-450
 
Your motherboard has 6 SATA 3 (6Gb/s) ports.
Double-check that you have your SSD connected to one of the Intel 6Gb/s ports (SATA3_0 or SATA3_1). See page 25 of your motherboard manual for the location of the ports.

Also double-check that the port is in AHCI mode.

 

CraigReid3

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I formatted my SSD and hard drive, re-installed windows 7 and this time only a maximum of 196mb/s. I have checked the connections in the motherboard and SSD but I see no problem, had 2 sata cables so changed it over but no difference, yes they are connected to the 6gb/s ports, the port is also set to AHCI mode aswell in BIOS. I am really clueless in why this is happening.
 

CraigReid3

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Hi again, sorry for late replies, work is busy. I changed to another port but I am still getting roughly the same readings +/- a few Gb's max. Could My SSD be faulty?