Hello all,
I've done a fair amount of research before posting, and read through the threads here that I could find as well.
I recently bought this drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139602
Upon arrival, I installed my drive into my case and loaded up the Acronis software that came bundled with my drive. I followed all instructions to a T. The drive booted fine, however upon benchmarking, even with ATTO, it was not coming nearly close to advertised speeds and speeds with which I've watched multiple reviewers obtain. The reviewers were even getting higher than advertised speeds in their tests. The advertised speeds are 550MB per second read and 510MB per second write.
I can't supply a screenshot atm as I have my SSD unhooked and am back on my HDD for the moment, but my ATTO benchmarks were in the neighborhood of 200MB per second for both read and write.
I'm posting because I'm not sure what the bottleneck is. My computer is a Gateway DX4320 that I've modified. Here's my motherboard specs:
Upon researching my MB, all 6 ports are SATA III. However, I cannot find anything about the controller and I don't know if that's my bottleneck or not.
I know I made one mistake, however; not setting my BIOS to AHCI prior to installing my drive. I've tried the regedits and they don't work for me, my drive would refuse to boot while set to AHCI. It would only boot if RAID was selected, which doesn't make sense to me because I only have one drive installed. My only 3 options for the controller are IDE, RAID, and AHCI and as I said the only one that would boot is RAID. However with my normal HDD, during the black booting text of the BIOS it would not say any of the 3 but would say SATA, whereas the SSD would say RAID when hooked up.
Where it stands now, I'm waiting for a disc that I ordered from Gateway that has Windows on it so I can do a fresh install after setting to AHCI, then just move whatever programs and such I want to to the SSD instead of copying everything over. However, I don't know if this is the right route or if it will solve my problem. If anyone could offer their advice and help, it would be greatly appreciated as I've never really worked with storage before so this is new to me. Also, I spent a bunch of money on this drive and want it to work full speed. :lol:
Thank you in advance!
EDIT: I will be keeping my HDD in as a secondary storage drive.
I've done a fair amount of research before posting, and read through the threads here that I could find as well.
I recently bought this drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139602
Upon arrival, I installed my drive into my case and loaded up the Acronis software that came bundled with my drive. I followed all instructions to a T. The drive booted fine, however upon benchmarking, even with ATTO, it was not coming nearly close to advertised speeds and speeds with which I've watched multiple reviewers obtain. The reviewers were even getting higher than advertised speeds in their tests. The advertised speeds are 550MB per second read and 510MB per second write.
I can't supply a screenshot atm as I have my SSD unhooked and am back on my HDD for the moment, but my ATTO benchmarks were in the neighborhood of 200MB per second for both read and write.
I'm posting because I'm not sure what the bottleneck is. My computer is a Gateway DX4320 that I've modified. Here's my motherboard specs:
Upon researching my MB, all 6 ports are SATA III. However, I cannot find anything about the controller and I don't know if that's my bottleneck or not.
I know I made one mistake, however; not setting my BIOS to AHCI prior to installing my drive. I've tried the regedits and they don't work for me, my drive would refuse to boot while set to AHCI. It would only boot if RAID was selected, which doesn't make sense to me because I only have one drive installed. My only 3 options for the controller are IDE, RAID, and AHCI and as I said the only one that would boot is RAID. However with my normal HDD, during the black booting text of the BIOS it would not say any of the 3 but would say SATA, whereas the SSD would say RAID when hooked up.
Where it stands now, I'm waiting for a disc that I ordered from Gateway that has Windows on it so I can do a fresh install after setting to AHCI, then just move whatever programs and such I want to to the SSD instead of copying everything over. However, I don't know if this is the right route or if it will solve my problem. If anyone could offer their advice and help, it would be greatly appreciated as I've never really worked with storage before so this is new to me. Also, I spent a bunch of money on this drive and want it to work full speed. :lol:
Thank you in advance!
EDIT: I will be keeping my HDD in as a secondary storage drive.