SATA 3 Gb/s + SSD = Not that fast

[Rob94hawk]

Just installed Windows 10 home 64 bit on an old generic SSD on my old socket 775 system with SATA 3 Gb/s. Thought the results would be better. I think the SSD is over 5 years old but it’s still faster than the HDD. Not sure if the chipset driver installed properly.

 

[SL2]

Edit: Now I see Socket 775.. well, same goes there. See if there are different kind of SATA connectors.

Are you using the upper connectors, see pic? These are connected directly to the chipset, and most likely to work better. The other two goes via an additional controller, just guessing tho by looking in the manual.

 

[Rob94hawk]

Edit: Now I see Socket 775.. well, same goes there. See if there are different kind of SATA connectors.

Are you using the upper connectors, see pic? These are connected directly to the chipset, and most likely to work better. The other two goes via an additional controller, just guessing tho by looking in the manual.
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Using the closest ones to the chipset. Here's the motherboard I'm using:

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[SL2]

They're all color coded, with the yellow ones being Intel, and the purple going via a different chip.

I guess you could try different connectors of both colors, don't expect any miracles tho.

As for driver I'd assume you'll see the MS driver in the device manager. Dunno if something else works better that also works with W10.

 

[claes]

Half the performance on a standard with half the throughout sounds right to me

 

[Rob94hawk]

They're all color coded, with the yellow ones being Intel, and the purple going via a different chip.

I guess you could try different connectors of both colors, don't expect any miracles tho.

As for driver I'd assume you'll see the MS driver in the device manager. Dunno if something else works better that also works with W10.

According to the manual SATA0 - 5 are supported by the ICH9R southbridge (Orange & Yellow.) The purple are Gigabyte Raid/AHCI.

Half the performance on a standard with half the throughout sounds right to me

Yeah looks that way. Found this result on Tomsharware:

 

[EarthDog]

Not sure if the chipset driver installed properly.

That's a start...get the chipset driver from the mobo website.

But like was mentioned earlier, you want to use the native SATA ports not third party, for best results. Check the manual.

 

[hurakura]

I think everything is fine, those are the speeds you can get on SATA2.

 

[AsRock]

That's a start...get the chipset driver from the mobo website.

But like was mentioned earlier, you want to use the native SATA ports not third party, for best results. Check the manual.

Yes the ASROCK ones were about 250MB for me as i remember it were as the none ASROCK ports were doing 490+MBs

 

[joemama]

I saw that SATA 3Gb/s only provides up to 300MB of data transfer rate, so your results are normal.
You can look up the data transfer rate for each interface here on wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#Comparison_to_other_interfaces

 

[xman2007]

I saw that SATA 3Gb/s only provides up to 300MB of data transfer rate, so your results are normal.

I think everything is fine, those are the speeds you can get on SATA2.

Yup ^^^^

Sata2 is 300MB/s max, though in real terms you'll be hard pushed to hit more than 250MB/s up or down, performance is pretty much whatyou can expact out of the SATA2 protocol

Yes the ASROCK ones were about 250MB for me as i remember it were as the none ASROCK ports were doing 490+MBs

Not on SATA2 they weren't doing 490MB/s

 

[Rob94hawk]

That's a start...get the chipset driver from the mobo website.

But like was mentioned earlier, you want to use the native SATA ports not third party, for best results. Check the manual.

Reinstalled the chipset drivers. Still in port SATA0. A slight improvement on the sequential read but the rest stayed the same. Not complaining though. I don’t have to listen to endless thrashing from the HDD & Vista anymore!

 

[EarthDog]

Well, as was said, SATA2 3/Gbs that's about right.

 

[AsRock]

Well, as was said, SATA2 3/Gbs that's about right.

What is odd is that he saying it's not as fast as a HDD, like dam my still ageing Intel SATA2 80GB drive is faster than a HDD.

EDIT: and who the hell made those drives ?, no brand name ?, take those apart if you can without voiding a possible warranty and see what controller is in them ha.

 

[hurakura]

What is odd is that he saying it's not as fast as a HDD, like dam my still ageing Intel SATA2 80GB drive is faster than a HDD.

EDIT: and who the hell made those drives ?, no brand name ?, take those apart if you can without voiding a possible warranty and see what controller is in them ha.

He says it's faster that a HDD. Any SSD will feel faster than a HDD, even though HDDs reach 200MB/s in sequential, their 4k performance is atrocious.

 

[basco]

it s in the access times and not mb\s