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Samsung 850 EVO mediocre performance
Hello,
My setup is a Gigabyte P55A-UD3P MB running an intel core i5 @ 2.6 MHz (stock speeds and voltages). I'm using G.Skill 8GB DDR3 RAM & I'm using a good shielded SATA 3 cable and SATA 3 itself is managed by the built-in Marvell 9128 chip. My setup is kinda old nowadays but everything still works perfectly fine for my purposes so I thought of refreshing my hardware and implementing the Samsung 850 EVO (using firmware emt02b6q) and the system's overall speed is faster compared to my old drive (WD 500GB green) but I don't think I'm getting the most out of my drive. I'm on AHCI mode and I started with a fresh new installation of Windows 7 Professional using all latest drivers and patches. Trim is enabled and partition alignments on SSD are in good shape. Benchmarks using the magician software gave me these kinda humbled results with the marvell 9128 chip:
After a lot of googling, I found out that I'm indeed not lucky with hardware in general as I tend to pick the bad/oudated hardware because I found lots of complaints from the marvell chip so I pulled the sata 3 cable from the marvell chip and sticked it into my old sata2 connector (which i guess is a jmb362 chip or a gigabyte chip - I'm not sure) and these are the results:
and now based on these results, I'm confused about what to do: should I stay with marvell or the other sata2 chip? in other words, do you think guys that the second result is better (even though the sequential read have dropped almost to 1/2)?
Any advices would be highlgy appreciated to get the most out of my drive and mobo as much as i can.
Thx
Last edited by magmag; 22 Dec 2015 at 16:15.