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    Summary Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 CPU AMD Athlon II X2 250 23 °C
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    New SSD Install


    I wasn't sure where to ask this question so took a gamble and tried here.
    Some months ago I fitted an SSD into my desktop running windows 7 home premium,It's the C drive all my operating system and programs are on this drive.
    All other documents etc are on another internal HDD.Been doing some reading about the SSD system and decided to run the test program AS SSD 1.7 and the results were as per image.
    What I would like to know if the readings given by the program are okay or not.
    When I did this install I must say that I did have a lot of help from WHS & Brink on this change over.
    I did ask the same question on another forums,And really need a second opinion on the readings that was done with the AS SSD program.Are the results good/fair/poor??
    Many thanks for your thoughts on this.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails New SSD Install-2014-03-21-14_45_05-ssd-benchmark-1.7.4739.38088.jpg  
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  2. Posts : 73
    w7 ultimate 64-bit sp1
       #2

    Hi, PassMark Software - Hard Drive Benchmark Charts
    I would say it's under performing in your case, what motherboard are you using and what SATA port is the SSD connect to?
    You are missing 300Mb/sec of read speed.
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  3. Posts : 379
    Summary Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 CPU AMD Athlon II X2 250 23 °C
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Thanks for the reply.What would be the best way to find out what (what motherboard are you using and what SATA port is the SSD connect to).
    As this desktop was a self build by a local pc engineer some time ago.I'm not very technical minded on computing yet,But getting there slowly.
    Thank you.
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  4. Posts : 379
    Summary Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 CPU AMD Athlon II X2 250 23 °C
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Does this help.I downloaded Belaric advisor.
    Results here I do hope that they are the ones you asked for,

    Drives Memory Modules c,d
    2120.43 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
    1662.72 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

    ATAPI iHAS124 C SCSI CdRom Device [Optical drive]
    ATAPI iHAS124 D SCSI CdRom Device [Optical drive]

    Crucial_ CT120M500SSD SCSI Disk Device (120.03 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 1349095C834F, SMART Status: Healthy
    Generic- Compact Flash USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 3
    Generic- MS/MS-Pro USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 6
    Generic- SD/MMC USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 5
    Generic- SM/xD-Picture USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 4
    HP Photosmart 6520 USB Device [Hard drive] -- drive 2
    WDC WD20 EARX-00PASB0 SCSI Disk Device (2000.40 GB) -- drive 1, s/n WD-WCAZAF453196, SMART Status: Healthy 3968 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

    Slot 'A0' has 2048 MB
    Slot 'A1' has 2048 MB
    Slot 'A2' is Empty
    Slot 'A3' is Empty
    Local Drive Volumes

    c: (NTFS on drive 0) * 120.03 GB 68.42 GB free
    f: (NTFS on drive 1) 2000.40 GB 1594.31 GB free

    * Operating System is installed on c:

    Processor a Main Circuit Board b
    3.00 gigahertz AMD Athlon II X2 250
    128 kilobyte primary memory cache
    1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
    64-bit ready
    Multi-core (2 total)
    Not hyper-threaded Board: BIOSTAR Group N61PB-M2S
    Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
    BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 07/31/2009

    Thank You.
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  5. Posts : 73
    w7 ultimate 64-bit sp1
       #5

    Could you please have a look at "CPU-Z" or Speccy, under "motherboard" you will find the name of your MB, once you have the make and model of the MB you could go to manufacturers website of the MB and look for "specifications" of your MB. Checking which version SATA is supported by the MB, if it's older system it might only have SATA II which could mean your SSD will only run @ 300MB/s (not 500 that it is capable of).

    Please note the speeds that you have are ok/good.
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  6. Posts : 379
    Summary Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 CPU AMD Athlon II X2 250 23 °C
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Okay thanks for that Here is the MB Info MCP6P M2+ :: Motherboard :: BIOSTAR
    I do hope it makes sense to you.
    Thank You again.
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  7. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #7

    You only have 3Gbps sata ports, are the drivers for them fully updated ?
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  8. Posts : 379
    Summary Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 CPU AMD Athlon II X2 250 23 °C
    Thread Starter
       #8

    Good question I don't know.How would be the best way to find out.Sorry to be a pain.
    Thanks.
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  9. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #9

    Open up Device Manger then expand the sata controller (click the triangle) then right click to bring up the properties page, then, update the drivers.
    Last edited by AddRAM; 22 Apr 2015 at 17:47.
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  10. Posts : 73
    w7 ultimate 64-bit sp1
       #10

    Hello again, can I ask if you experience any problems with you PC?

    Maximum theoretical speed that you will have with your current MB is 300MB/s, having 200MB/s on AS SSD benchmark is very good for your current setup, I'm sure if you used HD Tune website tool you will see higher numbers.

    If there is no problems with your PC then it might not worth your while to install new drivers (if it's not broke don't fix it).

    If you PC is little slow try using CCleaner.
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