The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    SSD speeds.

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Guangdude, Jun 4, 2012.

  1. Guangdude

    Guangdude Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    1
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hi, I've recently bought an Crucial m4 256gb ssd and ran the AS-SSD benchmark. However comparing these results with other m4's, I am getting half the read speeds. I've set it on AHCI mode. Is this normal?

    Running on M11x R2 A04 firmware BIOS.
    M4 is running on 000F firmware.

    Ps. Im new on the forums!
     

    Attached Files:

    Guangdude, Jun 4, 2012
    #1
  2. Yiddo

    Yiddo Believe, Achieve, Receive

    Reputations:
    1,086
    Messages:
    4,643
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    105
    The M11x R2 is only SATA II not SATA III so your SSD will run at SATA II speeds. In the majority of cases half the speed of a SATA III port in terms of seq reads.

    It is still better to get a SATA III SSD for future proof anyway and I am using a SATA II in my R3 and really didn't notice much difference in real life terms, they are both bloody fast.
     
    Yiddo, Jun 4, 2012
    #2
  3. CEUOTC

    CEUOTC Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    77
    Messages:
    309
    Likes Received:
    7
    Trophy Points:
    31
    M11x R2 maybe SATA II?
    Crucial M4 is SATA III
    Are you running latest 000f firmware?

    Regards.

    C.

    Crucial M4 256GB SSD Review (on SATA 2).

    Sata 2 cripples the speed of the Sata 3 M4.

    Regards.

    C.
     
    CEUOTC, Jun 4, 2012
    #3