Hi folks,
I built my computer back in December 2010 - i7 860 CPU on an Asus P7P55D mobo. Recently my old hitachi 1TB hard drive has been chugging, so I picked up a samsung 840 pro SSD 128 GB and reinstalled windows 7 on it.
However, after running some speed tests on it, I'm only getting about read speeds of about 220 MB/s - far from the advertised 530 MB/s. Would this be due to the fact that the motherboard is SATA 3.0 GB/s instead of 6.0 GB/s? It's definitely faster than the hitachi (about twice as fast), but I want to squeeze all the performance I can out of this bad boy - any suggestions?
I built my computer back in December 2010 - i7 860 CPU on an Asus P7P55D mobo. Recently my old hitachi 1TB hard drive has been chugging, so I picked up a samsung 840 pro SSD 128 GB and reinstalled windows 7 on it.
However, after running some speed tests on it, I'm only getting about read speeds of about 220 MB/s - far from the advertised 530 MB/s. Would this be due to the fact that the motherboard is SATA 3.0 GB/s instead of 6.0 GB/s? It's definitely faster than the hitachi (about twice as fast), but I want to squeeze all the performance I can out of this bad boy - any suggestions?