Solid State Hard Drive

[Klaus]

So are you guys seeing even close to the advertised speed? Even after I upgraded to a stand alone SataIII card I am still only seeing about half the speed.

[Kyrillian]

I ran the test and my result were abyssmal. It appears I have SATA 1, the slowest of them all. I scored like a 260 on that test, I looked up a forum where people post their scores and a guy with the exact same SSD as me posted a score of 1200something.

Does anyone know if I can get a SATA 3 controller to increase the speed or if I have to go to SATA 2?

Even with the lower performance it is still about twice as fast as my HDD. Yesterday I exited TOR to restart the computer for some changes to take effect. I was shut down and back in TOR within about 45 seconds, the majority of that time was TOR loading.

[Kyrillian]

OK so here is something else I don't get. I checked the specs on my SSD to see what the max read/write is. It is basically 500mb/s for both. But when I ran Klauso's tester, it tested at 100mb/s for each.

SATA 1 is supposed to be capable of 1.5gb/s. Shouldn't I be able to get to 500mb/s without upgrading the controller?

I am also going to try upgrading my SSD Firmware. I remember before I bought it there were some complaints that it needed new firmware but it wasn't clear. Hope that makes it faster.