aikixen Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 I just bought two Corsair SSDs, one X128 for my home pc and an X32 for my work laptop. The X128 is running Win7 and is smoking fast compared to the WD Raptor it replaced...love it. I just installed the X32 in an HP6730s laptop and used the HP disks to install Vista 32bit on it. Once I got all the drivers installed, I ran HD Tach and was surprised to see read time average of 116, instead of 200 or higher like the X128. Since these are my first SSDs, I was just wondering what the issue might be? I know Win7 is more optimized for SSDs, but is this the type of performance to expect from Vista? or maybe it's just the laptop hardware holding it back? I will most likely try aninstall of Win7 to see if there's any speed change, but thought I would post here as well. The laptop has: 1) Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T7370 (2.00 GHz, 3 MB L2 cache, 1066 MHz FSB) 2) Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset ICH9M-Enhanced 3) 2GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM Any info / suggestions greatly appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aikixen Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 Anyone? RAM GUY? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aikixen Posted September 15, 2009 Author Share Posted September 15, 2009 I just installed Win7 and ran another test...pretty much the same read speed at 120. AHCI is chosen in the BIOS. My guess at this point is that the lapatop only has SATA I, which would max my speed at what it is now. I haven't been able to search and find confirmation that this laptop uses SATA I or SATA II. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted September 15, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted September 15, 2009 According to the Specifications I can find on line it would suggest only S-ATA1 is supported but I would suggest asking the NB Manufacturer to be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted September 16, 2009 Share Posted September 16, 2009 Please wait 24 hours before bumping a thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted September 16, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted September 16, 2009 In addition the X32 and X64 Drive's will have a bit lower write speed than the 128 and 256 Gig. 220 MB/s sequential read 135 MB/s sequential write Compared the X256 and X128: 240 MB/s sequential read 170 MB/s sequential write Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aikixen Posted September 16, 2009 Author Share Posted September 16, 2009 Do I have to wait 24 hours before replying...which will bump the thread? Anyway, thanks RAM GUY for the extra info on the speeds. I just brought the laptop into work to show my IT manager how fast the drive is compared to the 5400rpm drive it replaced. I ran the HD Tach test again and this time I got average read of 170. Nothing has changed on the laptop since I ran the original speed test and got read of 120. Regardless, its fast and I'll take it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 Bumping a thread means responding to your own reply solely for the purpose of moving your thread to the front of the forum. There's nothing wrong with replying to someone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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