Intel SSD 520 Series 180GB SATA 3 speed or not?

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I have an Intel 520 Series 180GB SSD.

Results in ATTO:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9tlU5kKoLAQU0Q0TjlPdnBrUmM/view?usp=sharing

Results in HDTune:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9tlU5kKoLAQZDEtYjFDZXNBVnc/view?usp=sharing

Results in CrystalDiskMark:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9tlU5kKoLAQMVR5Uko3bmM0UUE/view?usp=sharing

My hardware specs:
Mobo: Asrock H61M U3S3 (with only 2 SATA 3 ports on-board)
OS: Windows 7 64bit

What I've done:

-SSD into SATA 3 ports (SATA3_1)
-Installed ASMedia SATA 3 Drivers from Asrock for the SATA 3 ports
-Swapped SATA cables

What I've attempted but has failed:
-SSD into the other SATA 3 port (SATA3_0) because my HDD is plugged into that with the OS. Whenever I swap their SATA ports, my PC never boots which I can never understand for the life of me.

Am I getting the right speeds?
If not, what am I doing wrong. Or what else can I do to improve it?

Thanks!
 
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Dereck47
Your Read/Write speeds are normal.

Your SSD need to be connected to a native SATA 3 (6Gb/s) port in order to get the advertised 550/500 MB/s Read/Write speeds.

Native SATA ports on a motherboard with an Intel CPU are Intel SATA 3 ports.
Native SATA ports on a motherboard with an AMD CPU are AMD SATA 3 ports.

Your motherboard does not have an Intel SATA 3 ports, it only has Intel SATA 2 ports. It uses 3rd party ASMedia for the SATA 3 ports.

Your ATTO benchmark results indicate that you are getting 73.3% of advertised Reads and 74.2% of advertised Writes.

Swap SATA ports and you may get slightly better results. Double-check your BIOS settings and make sure that your SSD is your 1st boot device.

You can connect your HDD to one of...
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alright. that's probably it. how about the SSD speeds I'm getting, are they right?
 
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Your Read/Write speeds are normal.

Your SSD need to be connected to a native SATA 3 (6Gb/s) port in order to get the advertised 550/500 MB/s Read/Write speeds.

Native SATA ports on a motherboard with an Intel CPU are Intel SATA 3 ports.
Native SATA ports on a motherboard with an AMD CPU are AMD SATA 3 ports.

Your motherboard does not have an Intel SATA 3 ports, it only has Intel SATA 2 ports. It uses 3rd party ASMedia for the SATA 3 ports.

Your ATTO benchmark results indicate that you are getting 73.3% of advertised Reads and 74.2% of advertised Writes.

Swap SATA ports and you may get slightly better results. Double-check your BIOS settings and make sure that your SSD is your 1st boot device.

You can connect your HDD to one of the SATA 2 ports, you will get the exact same Read/Write performance with it connected to a SATA 2 port.
 
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actually i've swapped them. and it is the 1st boot device. it's working now as the OS drive.

but only now did i know about the SATA port being...3rd party :( sigh...
 
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