Intel 530 SSD 240GB Performance Question

Hello Everyone,

I have recently purchased Intel 530 240GB ssd & placed it in my Sony Vaio SVS15113FXB.

I tested it's performance via HD TUNE PRO, but I found it no where near 540mb/s read speed. Is it because my laptop has SATA 2 connectors or I am doing something wrong? Still with SATA 2 connectors isn't 180mb/s average is low?

Please check attachment for screenshot.

Any help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks for viewing.

 

Your scores are lower because you're testing it with an HDD testing tool.

Also because you've installed an O/S on it (the testing sites have it as a secondary drive; or even test in Safe Mode).

Your notebook should be SATA3 capable - unless you're running it in the drive bay?

Also, make sure to test while plugged in and in High Performance mode (not on battery power).

Try AS SSD, Crystal Disk Mark, Anvil Storage Utilities other benchmark tools that allow you to select compressible data test sets to show you the maximum possible.

 

@tilleroftheearth: I am testing it with Crystal Disk Mark, but getting read 262mb/s & write 226mb/s. So it means that my controllers are not able to give SATA 3 performance?

 

Which test data are you using? You want to not use Random.

 

Hello,

Sorry, I was away

These are the results in attachment

 

it looks like you are indeed trapped with SATA2 and/or are using incompressible testing data. Those CDM scores are what my Intel 330 gets on SATA 2.