[SOLVED] Low speeds on SSD (Standard HDD is just as fast, write)

[Altiris]

I did a test on my Samsung 840 Pro 128gb SSD and a Seagate Barracuda ST31000524AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s. I enabled AHCI and they are both plugged into the SATA 3 port on my MSI P67A-G45 B3 motherboard. My BIOS drivers are up to date.

SSD

HDD

I didnt do Access Time or 4K read/write because it was taking way too long.

 

[HEADSLOW44]

The speeds are fine for the 840, you would have seen a HUGE difference if you had let the 4k read/write tests finish out.

This is all your fault, unfortunately. No problem here.

Mods, please close this thread as the problem has been solved.

 

[mcnumpty23]

ignore the previous poster

your write speeds are far too low

my samsung 830 has much faster write speeds than that

should be round about 400MBs not 117MBs

 

[Dereck47]

Your motherboard model uses Intel Management Engine drivers.
Install the latest driver version 9.0.2.1345 and see if that makes any difference. https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=22596&lang=eng&wapkw=management+engine+driver

Your AS-SSD results show msahci which means you are using Microsoft's default AHCI drivers.
Use Intel's latest AHCI drivers (11.7.0.1013) and see if you get better performance.
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=22270&lang=eng&wapkw=ahci+driver

 

[Altiris]

Holy shit, everything seemed to increase. Thanks a crap load man. They need to bring this information out to the fore front more, I had no idea you needed to update these things. Thanks once again, my score went up my 309 points.

 

[Dereck47]

No problem!

 

[Altiris]

Hey this offtopic but I have a server PC with 4 HDDs set to RAID 1. Two hard drives are paired with RAID 1 and then another 2 are paired with RAID 1. I ran the AS SSD speed test and I noticed about 65mb/s write and 92 read. I noticed that it has that it has MegaSR driver rather than the iaStorA driver, is this because they are set in RAID? If I were to update the driver to the Intel Rapid store (iaStorA) would it mess anything up and would it increase performance? (I dont have software RAID but embedded hardware raid)

 

[Dereck47]

I don't think it would hurt anything. You can always uninstall the RST drivers and reinstall the MegaSR drivers if you don't like the results.
You can boot into Windows Safe Mode to undo things if you have problems.