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Greetings
My specs: Asus M5A97 , AMD FX 8350 , Kingston Hyper X 2 x 4GB 1600mhz , Sapphire R9 380 , Kingston UV400 240GB SSD , Windows 7 sp1 .

As the title says i am wondering whether my new SSD is working properly. Coming from an 7 year old WD HDD i was expecting to see quite the difference. Well i am not really noticing that much of a change. Sure its faster a bit but that could also be the fresh install of windows. A fresh install of windows is always reasonably quick and responsive, even on an old HDD.
It takes 30 seconds to boot up to the desktop. Is that slow? I have connected the SSD to the first sata 3 port and AHCI is set in BIOS. According to kingston SSD manager there are no firmware upgrades for my SSD.
Here are some benchmarks :
Crystaldiskmark : https://postimg.org/image/h535cnkeh/
ATTO : https://postimg.org/image/hp8uca3tr/
AS SSD : https://postimg.org/image/72tb0t0q7/

Is that ok performance?
 
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You sure? From what i could gather from around the interwebz is that my 4k speeds are lower then what other people are posting.
Could it be because i don't have AHCI drivers installed? Usually there is some mention of AHCI in the device manager when they are installed properly. I can't see anything in my device manager that mentions AHCI. It should be either under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers or storage controllers. There is nothing for me there. Is that how it should be?
Here is a pic of my device manager : https://postimg.org/image/4ml8kouj3/
 
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Not all ssd devices perform equally well.
Your sequential speeds look nominal, but the access times look slow compared to Samsung 850 evo.
That is what is most important for windows performance.
Here is one asssd image:
https://www.google.com/search?q=as+ssd+samsung+850+evo&tbm=isch&imgil=02zGk3BfBZ5hPM%253A%253Bts2NpA2cd95AKM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.legitreviews.com%25252Fsamsung-850-evo-series-ssd-review_154548%25252F4&source=iu&pf=m&fir=02zGk3BfBZ5hPM%253A%252Cts2NpA2cd95AKM%252C_&usg=__wKmeXnfhFrsMDElld0lqPAwmZ7w%3D&biw=1469&bih=1090&ved=0ahUKEwiS2YGI0cHOAhUIPCYKHRSJDhwQyjcILA&ei=dcWwV9LKL4j4mAGUkrrgAQ#imgrc=02zGk3BfBZ5hPM%3A

I might exchange it if I could.

One other thing, the sata controllers/drivers on the amd motherboards are not the equal of the intel controllers.
That might be part of the issue.
 
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Here is one of my drives.
A little bit faster than yours, but nothing to worry about.
usTJAWx.jpg
 
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@geofelt Wow that's three times my read access time. If i had the money i wouldn't have gone with a budget SSD. I know samsung is the king of SSD, at least TLC SSD, but its kind of expensive in my area.
@USAFRet Is that a kingston UV400 1TB drive?

Any idea on the AHCI drivers? Anyone out there with a amd motherboard that can shed some light on it?
 
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That is a Sandisk Ultra II 960 GB.
 
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That's a nice SSD you got there. If you guys are convinced my benchmarks speeds are OK should i stop searching for the AHCI drivers? Maybe they are already installed, just not showing up in device manager?
I was following this guide when i found out about AHCI drivers : http://www.thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/optimization-guides/the-ssd-optimization-guide-ultimate-windows-8-edition/
Maybe those drivers are only necessary for windows 8 and later.
 
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Wow so much space. Why do you need so much? :D

 
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500GB = OS and applications
250GB = photo work
250GB = photo and video work
960GB = backups, games, video, doc, etc

My HTPC/house server has 20+TB...:)
 
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Thanks for the answers guys. My question has been answered. Seems to be my drive is working as it should :D
Since i didn't get any answers regarding the AHCI drivers, i might open another thread for that matter.
 
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