Vertex 3 on SATA II with slow access times from AS SSD

[Ichigo]

Cloned the old HDD to an SSD using Acronis. Seems to work fine but then I ran AS SSD.



Now the read/write speeds are, according to what I've Google'd, normal for a Vertex 3 on SATA II. Even OCZ's spec sheet says as much.

But does SATA II have to do with the access speeds, because every single benchmark I've seen has far better access times than what I've benchmarked?

For what it's worth, the SSD appears to be aligned properly. Checking disks in system information, I have two partitions on the SSD, the 100MB partition that W7 made for whatever reason on the old HDD and the big boot partition. Both have "Partition Starting Offset" values that are divisible by 4096.

Any insight would be appreciated.

 

[Ichigo]

le bump

 

[bryanW1995]

Is it running slowly? My x25m g2 is running at 140 read/92 write these days, and it "feels" faster than it did back in its younger days.

 

[groberts101]

file system layout can and does show an impact on latency regardless of those who say that fragmentation has absolutley 0 impact on performance. My hundreds upon hundreds of tests(literally).. shows that image quality can have a larger impact than most will probably ever realize.

If you want to level the playing field a bit?.. test that drive as a spare when booted to another OS volume. Results might change slightly. Or better yet.. secure erase the SSD and retest as quick formatted/empty. Results are sure to change in that test.

 

[Ichigo]

Honestly it feels great to me. Obviously things are a lot faster even if the access time benchmark doesn't make any sense. Speed is honestly so much faster that I don't mind it at all. I'll upgrade my motherboard maybe later this year and do a fresh install of Windows 7 then and hopefully that'll be fine.

If the general consensus is that if nothing feels wrong, then I shouldn't worry about it, that's good enough for me.

 

[groberts101]

I agree too. If it don't feel broke.. then there's nothing to fix. Just enjoy it for what it's worth.