Recent content by Loftus

Ok. I finally solved this issue. It was the MSI Gaming App which I installed when I bought a MSI GTX1080. Somehow it was choking the SATA drives. Even when I thought they were running ok there were only benching at around 80 MB/Sec. After I uninstalled the MSI gaming app I am benching at 140...

Update after a long while... Finally I went to Asus support with this issue and they could not resolve it. They said it was probably a motherboard fault. So I bought an new motherboard (Z170-WS) and swapped out the Z170-Deluxe. Unfortunately I am still getting this issue. I am thinking now that...

I switched the 2 hard disks to the Asmedia SATA ports. I still have the same problem with very slow disks on a cold boot. Conclusion. It's nothing to do with the Intel/Asmedia SATA disk controller. I am going to open a support case with Asus next.

I'm having problems getting my graphics card out so I can move the disks onto the Asmedia SATA ports. In the meantime... Here is a screen-shot of a HD Tune benchmark after a cold boot (powering the PC on from off: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/20683608/SlowHD.png Here is a screen-shot...

I have moved the disks to different SATA ports. I now have: Plextor PCI Express disk - mounts as drive H: SATA port 1: Hitachi 4TB Hard disk - mounts as D: SATA port 2: Hitachi 2TB Hard disk - mounts as E: SATA port 3: Intel SSD 240 GB - mounts as C: SATA port 4: Empty SATA port 5: Empty SATA...

To clarify a few of the points above. I am using the default microsoft Windows SATA drivers. I previously un-installed the Intel AHCI drivers. It made no difference to the issue. I am running the drives in AHCI mode. I am not using RAID. I have the motherboard M2 and SATA express SATA mode...

Hi, I have a problem with the SATA hard disk speed on my PC. When I first boot of my PC every day (cold boot), my SATA hard disks run very slowly. They run at 10% of their normal speed. If I reboot the PC again, the disks run at the correct speed. Every day I have to boot my PC twice to fix...