Low X25-E Performance

[Blindsay]

Just got a X25-E and my read performance is only 130 MB/s tested both by HD tach and HDtune, tried with Win7 and Vista, all drivers installed


My windows 7 hard drive score was a 7.6

My boot times seem slow, not much faster then my old 7200rpm seagate

Specs
Dell XPSM1530
4GB DDR2 667
Core 2 T9300
Intel (Kingston Branded) X25-E 32GB

I saw some tweaks on OCZ forums that i tried, disabling indexing, prefetch, superfetch and a few other things

 

[MrLinux]

Is there an option in the BIOS to change the SATA interface speed?
Sounds like it might be running at SATA 150 rather than 300.

 

[Blindsay]

Unfortunetly my BIOS is pretty crippled the only option was to run it in ACHI (spelling?) mode and that is enabled

 

[daship]

I bet you board only supports sata 1. Same issue with my ssd in my netbook.

 

[Blindsay]

I bet you board only supports sata 1. Same issue with my ssd in my netbook.

just looked it up, supports SATAII

 

[sub mesa]

Could you try the "Files" (filesystem) benchmark of HDTune, or the ATTO benchmark? Does it give different results?

 

[MrLinux]

Calling the interface SATAI or SATAII doecn't mean a lot, it could be SATAII (because of the command set it uses) and still only work at 1.5Gig.

Booting from a Linux live CD and looking through the system log file (/var/log/dmesg) will tell you what it (really) supports,

you should get a log entry something like this:
[ 4.799353] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)

 

[daship]

Supports it? Thats because it will run but only Sata 1 speeds.

 

[Blindsay]

Its not SATA 1

 

[sub mesa]

So, benchmark it properly first.

 

[apache_lives]

depends on what you mean by performance - gaming wont see any diference where as general usage (opening apps, day to day tasks) will see a mammoth boost

also with windows start up half of it is PNP initialization and some network etc - take note when the HDD is actually being accessed etc