Dell l502x - Agility 3 poor performance =(

I have just purchased a Dell L502X and placed an agility 3 120GB SSD inside it. Performance seems to be improved but not as much as i expected, in particular compared to my desktop ( running an I7 920 and using SATA 2 ).

Bare in mind this is the exact same drive on both machines.
Even the performance numbers arnt that great for a decent SSD. Any help?

In my desktop i got the same sequencial reads, the writes were pretty much at 170-190
The 4K scores were approx 100Mb/s Read and 70Mbs Write
The 4K-64K were much closer to the sequencial writes. And access times were pretty much the same.

The drive is set to AHCI, i have rapid storage installed and all appropriate chipset drivers are working.

 

Maybe you got a bum drive? There is a known issue with SandForce 2000 series controllers forcing the latest recall for Corsair's Force 3 series SSDs. OCZ may have their own as well.

 

The reason of getting such lower R/WR speeds is that AS SSD benchmark tests use uncompressed data. So, these are the worst case scenarios you might face. If you are comparing these results with ATTO, then bear in mind that ATTO uses compressed data and because of that, ATTO provides you with the best case scenario results. There is no need to worry about this result as in my opinion, i have seen much worse AGILITY3 results than this

 

I have the Vertex 3, with the following benchmarks: (now lets see: how do I post this thing full-size?)



rats