How To Dell T5400 SSD upgrade slow SATA1 speed [resolved, solution shared]

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I am savaging an old T5400 workstation, upgrading HDD to SSD (Samsung EVO 850), but noticed the SSD is only running at SATA 1 speed, at practical speed of 50MBps. Samsung EVO SSD should be running at SATA3, or close 200-300MBps. Using HWiNFO, dignose the drive is running at 1.5gbps, which is SATA1 speed. The controller is SAS 6iR, which at least support SATA2 speed.

 

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Original Post Info from Dell forum: https://www.dell.com/community/Powe...SATA-SSD-Negotiated-speed-PE1950/td-p/4403779

1. Dell SAS 6ir controller does support SATA2 at 3gbps speed. However the negotiated speed with Samsung EVO SSD is only at 1.5gbps. Real file copy speed around 60MBps.
2. Can use LSIUtil_1.62 to config SAS controller to set minimum speed at 3gbps.
3. LSIUtil_1.62 (windows version) can be downloaded at http://www.dzhang.com/files/blog/2013/03/LSIUtil_1.62.zip
4. Download and extract all content.
5. Run cmd window as admistrator, cd to extract directory, run LSIUtil.exe
6. Choose your device, select option 13,changeMinRate to 3.0 for all PhyNum
7. Save and Quit, and reboot
8. Verify speed is at 3gbps with HWiNFO. Real file copy speed approaching 200MBps.

 

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 Directory of C:\Users\randa\Downloads\LSIUtil_1.62\Windows

07/30/2022  08:59 AM    <DIR>          .
07/30/2022  08:59 AM    <DIR>          ..
07/30/2022  08:59 AM           352,768 LSIUtil.exe
07/30/2022  08:59 AM           556,544 LSIUtil_amd64.exe
07/30/2022  08:59 AM           789,504 LSIUtil_ia64.exe
               3 File(s)      1,698,816 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  314,352,480,256 bytes free

C:\Users\randa\Downloads\LSIUtil_1.62\Windows>LSIUtil.exe

LSI Logic MPT Configuration Utility, Version 1.62, January 14, 2009

1 MPT Port found

     Port Name         Chip Vendor/Type/Rev    MPT Rev  Firmware Rev  IOC
 1.  Scsi Port 0       LSI Logic SAS1068E B3     105      00192f00     0

Select a device:  [1-1 or 0 to quit] 1

 1.  Identify firmware, BIOS, and/or FCode
 2.  Download firmware (update the FLASH)
 4.  Download/erase BIOS and/or FCode (update the FLASH)
 8.  Scan for devices
10.  Change IOC settings (interrupt coalescing)
13.  Change SAS IO Unit settings
16.  Display attached devices
20.  Diagnostics
21.  RAID actions
22.  Reset bus
23.  Reset target
42.  Display operating system names for devices
45.  Concatenate SAS firmware and NVDATA files
59.  Dump PCI config space
60.  Show non-default settings
61.  Restore default settings
66.  Show SAS discovery errors
69.  Show board manufacturing information
97.  Reset SAS link, HARD RESET
98.  Reset SAS link
99.  Reset port
 e   Enable expert mode in menus
 p   Enable paged mode
 w   Enable logging

Main menu, select an option:  [1-99 or e/p/w or 0 to quit] 13

SATA Maximum Queue Depth:  [0 to 255, default is 8]
Device Missing Report Delay:  [0 to 2047, default is 0]
Device Missing I/O Delay:  [0 to 255, default is 0]

PhyNum  Link      MinRate  MaxRate  Initiator  Target    Port
   0    Enabled     3.0      3.0    Enabled    Disabled  Auto
   1    Enabled     3.0      3.0    Enabled    Disabled  Auto
   2    Enabled     3.0      3.0    Enabled    Disabled  Auto
   3    Enabled     3.0      3.0    Enabled    Disabled  Auto
   4    Enabled     3.0      3.0    Enabled    Disabled  Auto
   5    Enabled     3.0      3.0    Enabled    Disabled  Auto
   6    Enabled     3.0      3.0    Enabled    Disabled  Auto
   7    Enabled     3.0      3.0    Enabled    Disabled  Auto

Select a Phy:  [0-7, 8=AllPhys, RETURN to quit]