Agility 3 Slow on G53SW-A1

I purchased this SSD when it was on sale on newegg:

Newegg.com - OCZ Agility 3 AGT3-25SAT3-120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

It's been over a month since I've had it, and now after I've installed it, these are the speeds I'm getting.



I've never had an SSD before, but these seem low. I'm running it in AHCI mode from the bios, not IDE, have the intel driver, and I've been told both of the slots on the G53SW are SATA 3. Is this normal, did I buy a crappy SSD, or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance for the input.

 

I do not have data on the agility 3 to compare, but here are the desktop results for a 64GB M4 and the results for the M4 in my G73 which operates on SATA II. Your results look more like those of a SATA II drive. Did you put the SSD in SATA port 0? The Agility also uses async NAND which is slower than synchronous NAND IIRC.

If you do not get an answer here, i'll move this to the hardware ssd subforum.

 

I have it installed on port 1, my 750gb hard drive is on port 1. I was told both ports are sata 3, so, I didn't think that would matter. If it does, I could go in, ans switch the drives, but I would prefer not to open up my laptop again, unless that is the only option, and I'm sure it would help.

 

Did you do a clean install or you cloned the OS drive?

I'm also interested in what Chastity might come up with regarding this issue.

 

Clean install using a usb flash drive I made. I downloaded all the drivers beforehand.

Used these two guides:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...rivers-everything-you-need-fresh-install.html

http://forum.notebookreview.com/win...-7-download-links-just-like-vista-before.html

 

The first thing I would do with this is download the OCZToolbox and Then:

1) Back up your partition
2) Place the SSD in another PC, and run the OCZToolbox. (Run as Admin)
3) Select Security and do a secure wipe of the drive
4) Replace the SSD back into the original PC, and restore the partition.

This should restore a SSD back to peak performance.

Also note the Agility 3 is up to FW 2.15

Case: 1640928

 

I just installed the drive a day before posting this, it's new, so it should be at peak. It was already at 2.15 firmware, I did a clean windows install, and had to format it to ntsf myself. I read somewhere else that OCZ uses the atto scores(included in the image i posted) for advertising, which aren't very accurate. So, even though it get's 500mbs in atto, in reality, i'm getting less than half in practice. Something I'll have to keep in mind before I buy another ssd.

 

Also note that ssd scores in laptops run lower generally than on desktop systems.