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    HP 8710w Bad SSD Performance

    Discussion in 'HP Business Class Notebooks' started by superpandapower, Oct 14, 2010.

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    Hi guys,

    I have done a lot of searching around, but haven't managed to find any info that would be able to help answer my question. Basically, I have been unable to get my HP 8710w to post a WEI for the disk performance of more than 5.9 under Windows 7. I have tried two different SSDs that, on other laptops, have gotten around 7.3 or more.

    Does anyone here have any idea why my 8710w seems to have permanently bad disk performance? I am running the standard Microsoft Windows 7 drivers in order to have TRIM support, btw.

    Thanks in advance for any help!
     
    superpandapower, Oct 14, 2010
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    Enable "Native SATA" in the bios so it runs in AHCI mode and ensure the partitions are aligned to the flash block size.
     
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    Hi nando4,

    Thank you for the quick response. Both of the items that you mentioned I have already done.
     
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    Can you post CrystalDiskMark results and list the SSD controller used?

    Worth ensuring power savings is disabled as I've read it dampens write performance when enabled. The 8710W has a ICH8M sataII primary bay interface running at full 3GBps so should certainly post better than 5.9 with any recent Indilinx/Intel SSD. I get a 6.4 with a ZIF pata SSD, with no AHCI support and an interface limited to 100MB/s.
     
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    I thought the 8710w did not have SATA-II (only I). This might be the problem.
     
    torinbox, Oct 18, 2010
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    I am on the verge of getting an SSD for my 8710w, then i saw this thread... I checked the sata status using the intel RST tool, which says "SATA transfer mode: Generation 2" (i have a sata-ii hitachi drive), which means the laptop does support sata-ii. So I think it's not the reason why the OP didn't get full speeds for his SSD.
     
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    I successfully installed an intel x25-m 120g ssd into my 8710w. I didn't do a fresh install of windows 7, but migrated from my old hard drive using the data migration tool intel provided. MEI gave a score of 7.6.
     
    Nnoob, Dec 16, 2010
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