Hey all.
Just bought a new Intel 520 series 120gb SSD. All in all, easy transition and no major hardware issues.
The issue is that the benchmarks show I am only reading at about 290 and writing around 180 but according to other benches I should be at almost double that. AS SSD also shows that the alignment is off. (I'm at work and don’t have the exact numbers right now)
Here's what I've done so far.
I cloned my WD Raptor with Win7 64bit to it using Easis and removed the HDD from the system.
Using the SATA cable that came in the SSD box.
I changed the bios to ACHI and a check of the registry shows a 0 in the appropriate area.
I ran AS SSD and Crystaldisk benchies to see where I was. Both results were very similar however, AS SSD shows that my disk is misaligned per to a pciide BAD message.
Ran msinfo32 and looked under Components> Storage> Disks in the partition starting offset which was 1,048,576 and is divisible by 4096 as is was supposed to be.
Ran the Intel toolbox optimization and full disk scan with no errors or issues shown.
Searched for a Windows 7 alignment tool from Intel but they say Win7 handles it properly and only offers it for WinXP.
Mobo has 6 SATA 3 ports that are all black as far as I can tell and that is where it is connected.
What am I missing that is eating up my speed?
System:
Mobo: GA-990FXA-UD3
CPU: AMD Phenom II 1090T
RAM: 8gb Corsair Vengeance PC3-10700H
OS: Win Home 7 Premium 64bit
Video: Visiontek 7970 GHZ
Thanks for any help.
Just bought a new Intel 520 series 120gb SSD. All in all, easy transition and no major hardware issues.
The issue is that the benchmarks show I am only reading at about 290 and writing around 180 but according to other benches I should be at almost double that. AS SSD also shows that the alignment is off. (I'm at work and don’t have the exact numbers right now)
Here's what I've done so far.
I cloned my WD Raptor with Win7 64bit to it using Easis and removed the HDD from the system.
Using the SATA cable that came in the SSD box.
I changed the bios to ACHI and a check of the registry shows a 0 in the appropriate area.
I ran AS SSD and Crystaldisk benchies to see where I was. Both results were very similar however, AS SSD shows that my disk is misaligned per to a pciide BAD message.
Ran msinfo32 and looked under Components> Storage> Disks in the partition starting offset which was 1,048,576 and is divisible by 4096 as is was supposed to be.
Ran the Intel toolbox optimization and full disk scan with no errors or issues shown.
Searched for a Windows 7 alignment tool from Intel but they say Win7 handles it properly and only offers it for WinXP.
Mobo has 6 SATA 3 ports that are all black as far as I can tell and that is where it is connected.
What am I missing that is eating up my speed?
System:
Mobo: GA-990FXA-UD3
CPU: AMD Phenom II 1090T
RAM: 8gb Corsair Vengeance PC3-10700H
OS: Win Home 7 Premium 64bit
Video: Visiontek 7970 GHZ
Thanks for any help.