SSD Being Slow

[Nietzsche-san]

Hey, so I've been using the SSD (Crucial m4 128gb) for about a month now and it's working great, I definitely notice the improved load times. But I benchmarked it and it's nowhere near where it should be, WIE is also only giving it a 7.2, when it should be scoring a 7.9. I've followed multiple tweak guides, turned off prefetch, superfetch, hibernation, paging, indexing, etc. I even switched to AHCI (I failed to do this for the past month) and it's working correctly. Here are my scores

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/26/asssdbenchm4ct128m4ssd2.png/

Any ideas? If further information is needed, just ask.

If this is a redundant post that can be resolved via another thread, please direct me, I don't want to be annoying

Thanks!

 

[Jocelyn84]

I'm not sure about WEI, but those speeds look right to me for Sata II (P55A-UD3). You could probably increase the 4k read/write speeds a little if you installed Intel RST drivers, disabled EIST/Turbo, and changed minimum processor management to 100% under power options, but I would only do the last two of those temporarily for benchmarking.

 

[Nietzsche-san]

I'm not sure about WEI, but those speeds look right to me for Sata II (P55A-UD3). You could probably increase the 4k read/write speeds a little if you installed Intel RST drivers, disabled EIST/Turbo, and changed minimum processor management to 100% under power options, but I would only do the last two of those temporarily for benchmarking.

Oh shit, so it's the age of my motherboard that's bottlenecking it?

 

[Jocelyn84]

Oh shit, so it's the age of my motherboard that's bottlenecking it?

Yes, but I wouldn't really worry about it unless you were already planning to upgrade to Sandy or Ivy. I used to own the P55A-UD4P and I'll assume you're using the Intel Sata II ports (blue) and not the Marvell Sata III ports (white), which is what you should be doing. The Marvell ports are faster, but they're not consistent, buggy and can actually lead to bad things like slower 4k read/write speeds. Outside of transferring very large files, you're not going to "feel" ay kind of difference between Sata II & Sata III, so I'd try to just enjoy the SSD. I went through a similar situation last week (Laptop has one Sata III and one Sata II port), but after doing some reasearch, I concluded it's not something to be worried about. Here's the Plextor m3 in my laptop on Sata II for comparison, but remember this was run optimally, with the three things I mentioned in my last post.

 

[tweakboy]

You can maybe buy a SATA 3.0 PCIe card.

Other then that you have to upgrade mobo. gl

I get 260mbps @ sata 2.0 . At sata 3 6gbps it your Plextor will transfer twice that 266 , so 500mbps .

However there is no diff in speed unless your copying big files , then the 500mbps would help. If your on Sata 2.0 SSD dont be discouraged,,,,,, your system will boot and launch apps same as sata 3.0 ........ you probably wouldn't see a difference unless you copy big files.

 

[tweakboy]

Does that access time matter. mine is 0.1xx The 830 was 700 dollars at the time. It also does 0.01x so does the Plextor.

Is there really a diff between my 0.1xx compared to 0.01x .. thx

 

[hhhd1]

I do not think it is possible to get WEI of 7.9 using SATA2.

It doesn't matter anyway, It won't affect any real world applications/games.

 

[Old Hippie]

WEI means nothing and is only used by novices that don't know any better.

If you check SSDReviews you can see that your drive is capable of doing a little better.

Have you checked the write-caching mode?

Check out this tutorial on enabling write-caching for better performance.

Don't bother with any add-on SATA6 cards unless you have 500.00 for a decent one.

Good Luck!