Problem with SSD + Older system

[Torey]

So I'm helping a friend clean up his aging slower computer. He has an older Acer Aspire M7711 desktop. He replaced the GPU so it plays games alright, but that's besides the point. Anyway, he has an 840 EVO and whenever we do the performance check his reads are around what they should be for SATA II at 281/39800 but his writes say 14/2325. Also I know his motherboard doesn't support AHCI but the Sata Interface also says N/A on the Samsung magician software. At the moment we're doing a re install of Windows to clean up his very messy OS. But his drive wasn't full or anything, so I can't figure out why it was so bad. It also took like 10 minutes for the test to finish. Also his drive has only like 8 TB written to it.

 

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with this. Thanks for any help.

[Captain_WD]

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Hey there Torey,

 

I'd take the drive to a system that supports AHCI and run a benchmark there to see if the drive is performing properly at all and if the system is somehow bottlenecking it or the drive itself has a problem. Do run some S.M.A.R.T. tests on it after you are done with the fresh install of the OS and post back with the results. Contacting the manufacturer for more details can also be a good idea.

 

Captain_WD.