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New SATA III HDD speed slow!?!?!?!?!?!
Hi I purchased a new WD Caviar Blue WD5000AKX 500GB SATA 3 16MB cache drive to replace my burnt out seagate 320gb drive which was sata 1.
The seagate drive ran at 100mbps on hd tune.
I was looking on HD tune and the speeds are only 133mbps max 113 min (see attachments) This seems slow for a sata 3 (6GBps, (600MBps))
My motherboard (ga-ma78lmt-s2) has sata 2 (3GBps) ports capable of running at 300mbps.
The drives are both set up for AHCI. and i have the latest drivers for the ports.
am i doing something wrong? Im fairly sure SATA 2 can operate at much higher speeds?
IN a nutshell the SATA 2 ports can theoretically run at 300MBps read/write and with a SATA III drive the HDD and ports should reach that speed with ease!
Thanks
Alex
Last edited by nostaw5; 26 Dec 2012 at 00:02. Reason: adding