Is my benchmark score good?

[Shaftell]

Hey everyone!

I recently purchased and installed a Crucial MX100 256 GB. I installed it properly(unplugged HDD, made sure AHCI was enabled, etc..) and then I optimized it watching a few Youtube videos. I did a benchmark test and while I haven't really had any issues I do notice my benchmark score is lower than what many others are getting. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, or maybe I missed something. I've pretty much done all the optimization that you would usually do with an SSD. Is my benchmark score good enough and I'm just being silly?

 

[Shaftell]

So what is it that I'm doing wrong?

 

[digitaldoc]

Does your motherboard support SATA 6? You may be bottlenecking it there.

Also, do you have TRIM enabled?

 

[Shaftell]

I have TRIM enabled. I'm not a 100% sure if my motherboard does support SATA 6. Here's a link to my model: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3788#ov

And thanks for your reply

 

[digitaldoc]

"AMD SB850 provides 6 native SATA3 storage interfaces with superfast 6Gbps link speed"

You are on the latest standard.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8066/crucial-mx100-256gb-512gb-review/6

On the sequential read speeds, it is performing where is should, but the write speed is a little slower.

First world problem...

 

[Shaftell]

"AMD SB850 provides 6 native SATA3 storage interfaces with superfast 6Gbps link speed"

You are on the latest standard.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8066/crucial-mx100-256gb-512gb-review/6

On the sequential read speeds, it is performing where is should, but the write speed is a little slower.

First world problem...

Such a first world problem, right? I'll just leave it as it is then and not fret over it. Thanks anyway for replying!