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Unfortunately it seems I spoke too soon. After a week of using the SSD, something has gone very wrong: I cancelled the 4K test as it was taking too long, but it was somewhere around 0.2 mb/s... I took it back to where I got it and they gave me another but it did the same thing. As is...

Just to update, I ended up getting the SSD. Thankfully my previous problems must have been related to the old drive. Beyond the rather low (but not unusual) 4K speeds and a weirdly high but likely erroneous 4K64 read speed the SSD is clearly working in SATAII mode.

I just also found the product manual for my HD. Now things are getting confusing... How you can achieve an I/O data transfer rate of 3Gb/s while only supporting SATA-1??

I just found this in the data sheet for my notebook: These are supposedly the specs for the HD, but in my case this is a ST9200420AS (AS=SATA-2) so I get the feeling it is referring to the combined maximum speed for the notebook. Oh well, I guess it solves that mystery. Thanks for the help.

What about overhead? Isn't SATA-1 also known as SATA 150mb/s? (and SATA-2 300) ultimately for this reason?

I am tempted, even more so after what you said Coup27 and also by the fact that the Samsung 830 256Gb is going pretty cheap locally at the moment (€169). But I would like to be as sure as possible first, so if anyone else has any ideas...

Thanks for the prompt reply. I have seen posts of people complaining about such a limitation with the T61, but in the same thread someone mentioned the 8510w has no such limit. Actually I have also seen someone report speeds of 200 mb/s after installing an SSD into this notebook. I can't be...

I recently found out my notebook (HP 8510w) hard drive is operating in SATA-1 mode when both it (Seagate ST9200420AS) and the chipset (ICH8M) support SATA-2. In my search for a solution I have come across discussion of AHCI, but as far as I can tell this is enabled. In the BIOS “SATA Native...