Toshiba Portege R835-P56X has disabled SATA III ports

[Anonemous]

For those planning to buy a SATA III SSD for this laptop read below:

So I just found out that my laptop was not fully SATA III capable at 6Gbps (Sandy Bridge chipset HM65) and wanted to get the word out there. Installed an Intel 510 120 gig on a Toshiba Portege R835-P56x. I had gotten speeds around ~240meg read/ 200 write which led me to believe that there was something funky going on. I dug further and found this:

http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Port&#...-Call-Ref-No/m-p/196464/highlight/false#M2041

Crystal Disk info states it's operating at SATA III but benchmarks (AS SSD) show otherwise.

Hopefully this helps out people who are deciding on this laptop.

 

[PhoKingGuy]

I got one of these a few days ago, its pretty nice for how much I paid for it. The keys need a little more resistance and the screen is a solid "meh" but I paid 500 bucks for it with my amazon GCs so I suppose it works out in the end. It serves its purpose as a note taker for me.

 

[Anonemous]

I got one of these a few days ago, its pretty nice for how much I paid for it. The keys need a little more resistance and the screen is a solid "meh" but I paid 500 bucks for it with my amazon GCs so I suppose it works out in the end. It serves its purpose as a note taker for me.

Yea, it's nice just kinda sad the heat sink fins are aluminum and SATA III is officially confirmed to be disabled.

 

[amanoai]

The R830 series is a wonderful combination of price and specs, it's really too bad that it holds all these little "warts" underneath it. I still would like to get one but I"m not as excited as I was when Toshiba first announced the new series this past spring.