Windows 7: Low Solid State Speeds.

Hello, I have an Intel 320 Series 80GB Solid State Drive. The advertised speeds are the following:
Sustained Sequential ReadUp to 270 MB/s Sustained Sequential WriteUp to 90 MB/sI'm only getting around 190 MB/s Read and about 80 MB/s Write. I know i would get lower than advertised but not this low. Anybody have any suggestions? I already have enabled AHCI in the BIOS and done all my OS tweaking.

What program are you using to get the speeds?

Haha nice to hear from you again. The program I use is HDTune

What program should I use

Have a look at this thread - Show us your SSD performance , the one most of us use is AS SSD benchmark, there is a link to the download in the 1st post.

I think most peoples score much lower than the advertised speeds on it, mine is advertised at 275/275 iirc but as you can see from the screenshot it scores nowhere near.

I'll try that program but I'm not worried because it still gets a 7.5 on the WEI so you know? not really something to worry about. BTW whats your WEI?

At the moment it's at 7.7 for the SSD but that's only because I did a clean install of windows the other day. Usually after a few weeks it drops to 7.6/7.5 after I clog it up a bit.

Edit, actually think that may be an old pic from when I had my HD5850 graphics card.

Just re-ran the test and my SSD is now 7.6 so gone down already!

Added new pic

Nice! Here is my score:
I have a 6.8 Windows Experience Index Score. Not at home now so I can't post a picture.

CPU: 7.1 Intel Core i3 560 @ 3.33GHz
RAM: 7.1 8GB DDR3 1333 PNY Optima
Graphics: 6.8 Nvidia Geforce GT440
Gaming Graphics: 6.8 Nvidia Geforce GT440
HDD: 7.5 Intel 80GB 320 Series SSD

Those scores look fine to me, and where they should be. Pefectly normal & nothing to worry about


I think the key phrase here is "up to". It doesnt mean it'll average that speed.



But, it doesn't really matter either. We are talking about Sequential Read/Writes scores, which mean very little to nothing for the OS.
Look at your 4K speeds, as thats what really counts. Far more so than the sequentials.