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    Crucial M4 on SATA I laptop

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by seiyafan, Oct 20, 2011.

  1. seiyafan

    seiyafan Notebook Evangelist

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    I had an opportunity to install 128gb M4 on a lenovo T60 laptop, seq and 512k are really close to the SATA I limitation, however 4k and 4kqd32 numbers are kind of low, what could be the possible cause?

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    seiyafan, Oct 20, 2011
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    what firmware are you running? 0009?

    it made a big difference for me
     
    SlickDude80, Oct 20, 2011
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    Is your laptop set to IDE/compatibility mode in BIOS? Maybe it can be changed to AHCI if it isn't already.

    However, I will say that my Dell Inspiron 6400 which uses the same or similar chipset can't be changed to AHCI mode.

    One way to check what mode the drive is in is to download AS SSD Benchmark, open the program but don't need to click "Start."
    If in the top left corner it says pciide, it means your computer is in IDE/compatibility mode for SATA.
    If it says msahci or iastor, that means your computer is already set to AHCI.
     
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  4. seiyafan

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    Yes, it is 0009 and BIOS is set to AHCI, AS SSD also confirms that it is running in AHCI mode.

    By the way, regardless of the numbers from benchmark, all programs load very fast, Win 7 startup and shutdown were very fast too. =)
     
    seiyafan, Oct 20, 2011
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    you're probably at the limit of your older hardware then...but still much better than a HDD :)
     
    SlickDude80, Oct 20, 2011
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    Yes, and I think these numbers also give hope to those who stuck with old hardware.
     
    seiyafan, Oct 20, 2011
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    Do you already have a version of Intel RST 10 installed?
     
    namaiki, Oct 20, 2011
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    I don't know, but my laptop was made in 2006, does it even support RST?
     
    seiyafan, Oct 20, 2011
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    My notebook gets better 4kQD32 scores with it so ideally yours would improve as well.
     
    namaiki, Oct 20, 2011
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    Okay, I just installed the latest Intel RST driver, 4k read/write now is higher by 1 MB/s, but 4kQD32 read is 105MB/s, a big improvement, write is 13.8MB/s
     
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    It should, yes. A Lenovo Thinkpad T60 was an Intel Core 2 generation laptop running an Intel chipset.

    If you have not installed Intel RST chipset drivers, then you are using Microsoft drivers. And going from Microsoft drivers --> Intel RST drivers has been known to improve the small-file performance of systems running SSDs.
     
    kent1146, Oct 20, 2011
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