glenf Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Hello All, I have a Samsung RC530 Laptop which supports SATA 3 and I recently purchased a Corsair Force GS 240GB Drive but the disk seems to be running on SATA 2 mode and I don't know why. Can anyone help me, I have listed all the tech specs below:- Laptop: Samsung RC530 Bios:- 06WD (Latest Bios available and the one i'm using) Motherboard:- Intel HM65 (Cougar Point) [b3] AHCI:- Enabled In BIOS and In Windows 7 SDD:- Corsair Force GS (Firmware 5.05A) Intel Rapid Storage Installed but still no luck.. There is one particular problem though I see why the drive is running in SATA 2 mode. The bios option SATA GEN 3 is disabled,however when i enable this it doesn't seem to detect the SDD on next boot. Then I kept the SATA 3 in "enabled" mode and disabled "AHCI" and it now detects the drive but i'm then not able to boot into Win 7 OS so in the end i have to disable SATA GEN3 mode and enable AHCI for the drive to work but the only question is it runs in SATA 2 mode and i checked the benchmark results from ATTO (reads and writes are around the 250MB/s mark Please any help would be appreciated. Regards, Glen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenf Posted January 29, 2013 Author Share Posted January 29, 2013 Guys, Please help if anybody has a solution. Regards, Glen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 i would contact Samsung and ask about the SATA GEN3 mode and what it does or have a look in your user's manual and see if you can find any info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenf Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 I will open a request with Samsung separately...However in the meanwhile just wondering if maybe updating my SDD firmware would help...Like i mentioned earlier my firmware is at 5.05A so not sure if there is any updated version available... The last firmware version I see on this forum is 5.03...Is that correct ? Regards, Glen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 31, 2013 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 31, 2013 You have a newer version than we have listed so no update is needed. And most Notebooks have the S-ATA Controller limited to S-ATA II, I would suggest checking with the OEM and make sure that you system supports S-ATA III. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenf Posted January 31, 2013 Author Share Posted January 31, 2013 Thanks everybody for your response. I ran multiple's software's to check hardware info and all reported me having SATA 3 compatibility. I am going to go to a Samsung service center shortly and will get their feedback too. Will update this thread when i'm done. Regards, Glen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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