Is this normal performance for a v300

[2chriswy]

so today i got a secondhand v300 60gb to use as skyrim drive mostly and i was timing the loading time and it was only a 2 seconds faster so i benchmarked it against a few of my drives. am i expecting to much for a 10$ secondhand drive. 

 

 

note i have the graphs swaped around by accident so write is read and so on

 

[ShadowCaptain]

so today i got a secondhand v300 60gb to use as skyrim drive mostly and i was timing the loading time and it was only a 2 seconds faster so i benchmarked it against a few of my drives. am i expecting to much for a 10$ secondhand drive. 

 

They are pretty rubbish SSDs but that speed does seem off

 

http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/1905/KINGSTON-SV300S37A60G

[Misanthrope]

Are you sure you didn't hook it up as SATA 2.0 or worst? Being second hand means that's probably not that reliable and such but it shouldn't kill the speeds so much.

[Sakkura]

If it's the asynchronous version it seems reasonable.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand

[2chriswy]

If it's the asynchronous version it seems reasonable.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7763/an-update-to-kingston-ssdnow-v300-a-switch-to-slower-micron-nand

wow thats some shaddy shit i only read the reviews for the first model before buying

 

 

 

Are you sure you didn't hook it up as SATA 2.0 or worst? Being second hand means that's probably not that reliable and such but it shouldn't kill the speeds so much.

how would be the easiest way to tell i have this mobo http://www.asus.com/au/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_990FX_R20/specifications/

[Misanthrope]

Give me a sec to review it's specs

 

EDIT: Ok so it works as most intel boards as I suspected:

 

AMD SB950 controller :
6 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), brown
Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10
ASMedia® PCIe SATA controller :
2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), gray
2 x eSATA 6Gb/s port(s), red

 

You need to check your motherboard manual and make sure you are using one of the AMD SB950 controller sata ports, the ASMedia controller might be causing significant slowdowns. It should be one of the brown ones, avoid the red and gray ones.

[Sakkura]

how would be the easiest way to tell i have this mobo http://www.asus.com/au/Motherboards/SABERTOOTH_990FX_R20/specifications/

 

Make sure it's plugged into one of the brown SATA ports, they are controlled by the chipset. The gray ones use a secondary controller, which usually hampers performance (and motherboard vendors usually recommend not using them for the boot drive).

[2chriswy]

Give me a sec to review it's specs

 

EDIT: Ok so it works as most intel boards as I suspected:

 

AMD SB950 controller :

6 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), brown

Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10

ASMedia® PCIe SATA controller :

2 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), gray

2 x eSATA 6Gb/s port(s), red

 

You need to check your motherboard manual and make sure you are using one of the AMD SB950 controller sata ports, the ASMedia controller might be causing significant slowdowns. It should be one of the brown ones, avoid the red and gray ones.

 

 

Make sure it's plugged into one of the brown SATA ports, they are controlled by the chipset. The gray ones use a secondary controller, which usually hampers performance (and motherboard vendors usually recommend not using them for the boot drive).

 

 

is was plugged into the sata0_2 so the second on off the chipset so dam just looks like a shit drive http://i.imgur.com/6aQAPSY.jpg

[Misanthrope]

It is looking like that but even if used you might still be able to RMA it

[2chriswy]

It is looking like that but even if used you might still be able to RMA it

 

do u think it would be worth rmaing i have the receipt from the guy i bought it off