Are these normal scores for my SSD?

[roid]

So ive had my Samsung 830 120GB SSD for  a little more than a year now, I instantly formatted it and threw a Windows 7 Pro x64 fresh install on it. I believe I did a benchmark test back when I got it and I think I got normal scores, but dont remember and I didnt save a screenshot of the scores. Now that I just bought an additional SSD I benchmarked both my old Samsung 830 and my new Kingston SSDNOW v300 with AS SSD Benchmarking tool, and just wanted to check if the scores I got are normal/optimal. I also compared them to other peoples benchmarking scores on tomshardware and compared to their scores mine are just way lower. I didnt really think of it until now, since I have always been happy booting up within 5s. I might of just rushed formatting the drives when I installed to them or maybe something else, and I made sure I got them connected to SATA 3.0 6gb/s on my mobo. Well damn I just realized what the "pciide is bad" relating to IDE mode. Is it worth risking changing the registry file to AHCI mode?

 

Samsung 830 Bench-- Avg total score is ~763 http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/ssd-charts-2013/AS-SSD-Overall-Total-Score,Marque_fbrandx67,2792.html

 

Kingston v300 bench-- Avg bench score~471 http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/ssd-charts-2013/AS-SSD-Overall-Total-Score,Marque_fbrandx166,2792.html

 

 

 

Just by looking at what other people's average score is im probably going to try changing the registry to AHCI or do a fresh reformat, but is there any other way doing it and what possible errors could happen?

[Joshyy]

Erm 14MB/s on writes is not right, you should be getting 300+ 

[Jogostar]

read is good, but write is low

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Write is waaaaaaaaaaaay low.

[TopplesS]

No harm in changing the registry to AHCI, don't forget to do it in the BIOS also. Link for instructions is here.

 

Are you sure it's hooked up to SATA3? Are you also using a SATA3 cable? Those read speeds are awfully low, should be up around 500MB/s. Write scores are horrendous.. Could have a failing drive on your hands possibly.

[roid]

No harm in changing the registry to AHCI, don't forget to do it in the BIOS also. Link for instructions is here.

 

Are you sure it's hooked up to SATA3? Are you also using a SATA3 cable? Those read speeds are awfully low, should be up around 500MB/s. Write scores are horrendous.. Could have a failing drive on your hands possibly.

Ya im pretty sure they are SATA3 cables, got two of them for the two ports for my asus mobo. Im gonna see if I can cleanly switch over to AHCI by changing the registry ill let you know if it all works out. Thanks everyone for all the replies so far.

[roid]

So just switched from IDE mode to AHCI mode in the registry and bios and pc booted up perfectly even faster then before about 2s which I didnt even think was possible lol. Did another benchmark test and the scores went way up heres what i got now in AHCI:

 

Samsung 830 Bench--Went from 107 to 550= 443 score diff (still ~200 lower than universal avg tho).

 

 

 

Kingston V300 Bench--268 to 389=121 diff (still ~100 below avg).

 

 

 

ide= intense bottleneckage for ssd