Sabertooth 990FX SSD problem

[itzdanielp]

Hello all!

I seem to be having a bit of a strange issue...

Specs
Sabertooth 990FX 0901 BIOS
FX-8150
Kingston HyperX T1 8GB (2x4GB)
Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD
2 PNY GTX 560 TI's SLI
Corsair AX850


Basically my issue has to do with poor SSD performance.

When benching the SSD I am getting about 480MB/s read (which although is less than advertised, that is to be expected and not bothering me) but only get around 170-180MB/s write speed (which is a *lot* less than the 500MB/s advertised)

Drives are set to AHCI, and I have done multiple clean installs of windows 7 (x64).

Yes, I am using the SB950 SATAIII ports, and I have tried multiple ports.


Also, Just for giggles I tried to RAID the SSD with another one. After finally (was quite a hassle) getting windows installed on the RAID0 array I ran another bench using CrystalDisk and got about 780MB/s read (not quite as high as I was expecting, but w/e) but still was only getting around 200MB/s write.

Is this an issue with the controller? I am kind of at a loss here...

Thanks in advance!

 

[nikorr]

Whats the firmware?

 

[itzdanielp]

Current on both drives. 332