SSD is unbelievably slow

ntadic990x

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Apr 7, 2012
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Hi all, i bought an OCZ Solid 3 60gb SATA III SSD. i am using it as a primary OS drive and i have a 1TB WD Caviar Black as storage. I have the SSD plugged into a SATA 3 port on my mobo using a sata 3 cable and it is in AHCI mode but the red/writes speeds are nowhere close to the 500/450 MB/s advertised speeds.

System Specs:

GA-890GPA-UD3H mobo
AMD phenom II x4 965BE
16GB 1333 ram
ocz 700w psu
evga gtx480

i have all recent drivers and everything is up to date. i went to go update the firmware on my ssd but i wasnt able to because it is the primary OS drive and i dont have windows on my storage drive.

here is the benchmark for the ssd
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You can update the firmware by going to OCZ and downloading the linux boot disk. I've done this for my OCZ Afility III drives - did not lose the OS nor the data on the 2nd drive.

I think they are up to 2.15, Here is a link, look down and select the linux based tool.
http://www.ocztechnology.com/ssd_tools/SandForce_Based/

PS bear in mind the solid is a low end drive. The agility III only scores mid 400 (overall as ssd score).