Atom N570 SATA controller

[Speedbird]

Hi

 

I recently upgraded my netbook to an SSD, however it's a slow, crappy 32GB Transcend drive. For a few weeks I thought that was the reason why I didn't get such a "massive performance boost" I was promised. But now something else came up: I realised that the CPU (Atom N570) is a 45 nm chip. As it was released such a long time ago, I'm not sure if it supports SATA 6 Gbps. And SSDs seem to be bottlenecked by SATA2. Could this be the problem? Or does it support SATA3?

 

Thanks.

[Speedbird]

@Speedbird What chips does your Network have in it? Another thing you could look at is what Sata speed was the original drive that was in there when you got it? That's a pretty good way to find out what the SSD is running at. Although not always accurate.

Did you mean chipset? I just found out that it's called NM10... for all this time I thought it was integrated on the CPU.

And the HDD was a Seagate Momentus 5400.6, and that was 3 Gbps (SATA2)

[Speedbird]

Benchmarked the drive, got 192 MB/s, which is 1.5 Gbps. Didn't know that it was that old.