Y580 Hard drive at 1.5Gb/s.

The Y580 is supposed to have a SATA III controller for the Primary Hard drive.
That means it should be able to use a 6.0Gb/s hard drive at the 6.0GB/s speed.

This thread confirms that the Y580 is SATA3 and the 2nd post even shows drives up to 6.0Gb/s.

My Hard drive is at 1.5GB/s and I would like to know what's wrong with it and how I can get it to 6.0Gb/s?

Here is a of my system screenshot from HWInfo32:


Please help.

 

The HDD and ODD are SATA 1.5 Gb/s, but the actual ports on the laptop are SATA 6 Gb/s. This is completely normal, nothing to worry about. Also you should be using HWiNFO64 not HWiNFO32.

 

Good catch on HWiNFO64, I just updated it to take that screenshot and under the 64bit version it confused me by saying "Download latest Beta v4.27-2050" (Latest version is 4.30).

Can I change it from 1.5Gb/s since my HD is a 3.0Gb/s drive?
Could care less about the ODD, I have never used it.

 

Use HWiNFO64 4.30. It's under Download Installer>Local (U.S.) The Beta v4.27-2050 is a more outdated build.

Cursory search seems to confirm that it's a SATA 3.0 Gb/s drive. If nothing is acting funny maybe it's just a HWiNFO reporting error. See if it's reported correctly in HWiNFO64.

 

Same thing in HWiNFO64:

 

Try another program such as HD Tune. Might as well benchmark your drive while you're at it if you're worried. If it gets reported correctly in other programs then it's just a HWiNFO bug.

 

I think i saw both drives at 1.5Gb/s in the BIOS too.

Here are my HDTune results:

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First picture says it's SATA 3 Gb/s.

Those are good results, nothing to worry about.

 

Are they Sata 3Gb/s speeds?
My warranty is up Christmas Eve (12-24), so if there's a problem I want to get it fixed while still in warranty.

Random Reads:

 

Not sure what you're asking because an HDD's speed is not determined by its SATA interface, but like I said there's nothing to worry about.

 

Oh I see. I have some learning to do then. I'm new to sata, my other computers are still using IDE drives.

I thought the 3.0 gigabits/sec meant I should be getting somewhere around 300MB/s minus some overhead reads/writes when copying a large ~30GB solid (.zip or .7z) archive.
Was figuring an average of 90-100MB/s.

I see most of larger files copy at USB speeds of like 30MB/s when copying and pasted from the same drive different folder and on the outside tracks of the hard drive.

 

IDE? Sounds like someone needs to get with the times.

The SATA spec determines maximum theoretical bandwidth. In your case you're still limited by the speed by your slow mechanical drive. Only SSD's are able to saturate SATA II. So a fast SATA III SSD plugged into a SATA II port would top out at just under 300 MB/s for sequential reads and writes.

 

People give me their old computers and I've built a monster desktop with more IDE drives than I have power supplies for, lol.
It's board has support for SATA and my OD Burner actually is the only thing to use it.

So I will likely only see much over 100MB/s in SSD drives? Same with mSATA's?

 

Yes.

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Thank you octiceps.
I do appreciate your help. :]

Adding solved to my title if I can.