BulkLogan Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Not sure really what I'm doing, but I gather I should post an ATTO benchmark so here it is - http://i.imgur.com/r1g2E.png Looks low to me, any thoughts? Edit - should mention this is plugged via sata 3 to a p6x58d motherboard. When bios starts, it recognizes the disk and says speed "sata III" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulkLogan Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 Edit 2 - I upgraded to 1.3.2 firmware, results are almost identical on the benchmark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoLmEr Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 The SATA 6Gb ports on your board is provided by the Marvell controller. Your results are what the Marvell controller can do. Newer chipsets like the z68 feature SATA 6Gb ports via the Intel PCH; in mainstream desktops those ports are the only ones capable of delivering the speeds the Force GT is rated for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssd_noob Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Your mobo only has a Marvell SATA 6Gb/s controller which is not good for a SATA3 SSD. If you had native Intel SATA3 ports you would see full speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulkLogan Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 Doh.. is there anything I can do to boost speeds or am I stuck with these (are these even reasonable?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssd_noob Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 You are pretty much stuck with that Marvell. You could of course get a "good" SATA3 card which could easily cost you more than a new native SATA3 mobo+cpu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulkLogan Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 Sigh OK, shall I leave it plugged into the "marvell" sata 6gbps port it's currently in or switch to one of the sata 3gbps ones? Not sure that would make any difference? Thanks for the responses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ssd_noob Posted October 5, 2011 Share Posted October 5, 2011 Just think. You won't have to get a new SSD when you upgrade your system. In the meantime leave it with the Marvell port. Here you are still getting Reads of 400 MB/s whereas with a SATA2 port you'd get only 250 MB/s. And for an OS drive Reads are more important than Writes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulkLogan Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 Will do, thanks for your time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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