I have scoured the internet for days trying to figure this out on my own, but alas, for the first time ever, after years of figuring out my problem on my own, I must ask for help....
I have just completed a fresh install of Win 7 HP on my SDD, and my speeds are not up to what I think they should be. I have what I believe to be all updated drivers, and all windows updates are taken care of. Additionally, I have tried numerous fixes.
I have tried to enable AHCI in registry and bios, but I cannot find the option in the BIOS(possibly the problem). I was able to change the Registry values, but I did not see any options to change to AHCI, RAID or IDE at all. This is where most answers seem to lead to, but I believe that it might not be the whole problem, i.e. chipset or bios drivers not optimal. Sony tech support was obviously no help as they kept referring to the SSD as a Hard Drive, and saying that "Sony does not recommend changing the settings in the BIOS" when I asked if that could be it.
The other weird thing is that I would have thought the computer wold default to AHCI as it is only about 1 year old, and certainly not going to be IDE right???
I used crucial system scanner to determine that my computer is indeed 6gb/s capable, and the speeds now are similar with 3gb/s speeds for a SDD
AS SSD SPEEDS:
Seq Read: 266
seq Write: 149
4k Read: 25
4k Write: 39
Computer:
Sony Vaio VPCSE190x
Intel Core i7-2640M CPU @ 2.80GHz
8GB RAM
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to whom ever can figure this out.
I have just completed a fresh install of Win 7 HP on my SDD, and my speeds are not up to what I think they should be. I have what I believe to be all updated drivers, and all windows updates are taken care of. Additionally, I have tried numerous fixes.
I have tried to enable AHCI in registry and bios, but I cannot find the option in the BIOS(possibly the problem). I was able to change the Registry values, but I did not see any options to change to AHCI, RAID or IDE at all. This is where most answers seem to lead to, but I believe that it might not be the whole problem, i.e. chipset or bios drivers not optimal. Sony tech support was obviously no help as they kept referring to the SSD as a Hard Drive, and saying that "Sony does not recommend changing the settings in the BIOS" when I asked if that could be it.
The other weird thing is that I would have thought the computer wold default to AHCI as it is only about 1 year old, and certainly not going to be IDE right???
I used crucial system scanner to determine that my computer is indeed 6gb/s capable, and the speeds now are similar with 3gb/s speeds for a SDD
AS SSD SPEEDS:
Seq Read: 266
seq Write: 149
4k Read: 25
4k Write: 39
Computer:
Sony Vaio VPCSE190x
Intel Core i7-2640M CPU @ 2.80GHz
8GB RAM
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to whom ever can figure this out.