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SSD help - Sandisk Extreme 2 480gb

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bdizzle_28

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I just purchased and installed a Sandisk extreme 2 480gb and I have no idea if my benchmarks are any good. I used AS SSD to perform the test and here are the results. Can anybody tell me if the speeds are normal for an SSD?

My specs
Intel i5 2500k @3.3ghz
G.SKill 2 x 4gb PC3 -800mhz
Gigabyte z68a-d3-b3
GeForce gtx 560 ti twin frozr

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Are there any settings I need to do to speed it up? I turned on AHCI in bios and installed intel rapid storage but haven't done any changes to it.
 
Can you change the size of the test? I am not too familiar with the test tool. If you can change it to a lower number 1024k.

WAIT....are you using SATA2 port?
 
dave_the_nerd said:
Way slow:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7006/sandisk-extreme-ii-review-480gb

Looks like it's running at SATA-2 speeds. (3.0Gbps.)

Easy first step: 6/7-series chipsets typically have a mix of SATA-2 and SATA-3 ports. Review your motherboard manual and make sure the SSD is plugged into a SATA-3 port from the chipset. (They are usually color coded, so if you have two of one color and four of another, put it one of the first two ports.)
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Yup, thats what I was thinking.
 
JumBie said:
Can you change the size of the test? I am not too familiar with the test tool. If you can change it to a lower number 1024k.

WAIT....are you using SATA2 port?
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dave_the_nerd said:
Way slow:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7006/sandisk-extreme-ii-review-480gb

Looks like it's running at SATA-2 speeds. (3.0Gbps.)

Easy first step: 6/7-series chipsets typically have a mix of SATA-2 and SATA-3 ports. Review your motherboard manual and make sure the SSD is plugged into a SATA-3 port from the chipset. (They are usually color coded, so if you have two of one color and four of another, put it one of the first two ports.)
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This might be the problem, I'll have to check in the morning. Thanks for the quick replies guys!
 
bdizzle_28 said:
Are there any settings I need to do to speed it up? I turned on AHCI in bios and installed intel rapid storage but haven't done any changes to it.
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Those wouldn't change anything useful anyway.

I had some trouble getting my SSD to reliably work at 6Gbps. It took a firmware update and a couple BIOS resets, but it got there. It had a Sandforce controller, dunno if the Marvell chip in yours has problems like that.

http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/SanDisk-Extreme-SSD/bd-p/ExtremeSSD

Manufacturer support forums has a few threads with similar problems, although those are mostly incompatible or semi-compatible older hardware (which isn't applicable here.)

I'm betting 10 internet points on "wrong SATA port."
 
With 250MBps read and write scores, there's no need to bet anything. It's definitely running at 3GBps, and getting perfectly fine scores for running on a 3GBps port.

OP, your SSD should be using one of the white SATA ports.
 
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