Sean's SSD & HDD Troubleshooting Guide - Page 5

You should make a separate thread. I think that if you format the drive you can then use some good recovery software and get most, if not all your data back. However, I am not sure, so someone else may help when you make a thread.

I know, you do not have a native intel sata 6gb/s port. You will not be able to see higher speeds. The GSATA controller on the motherboard is limiting the speeds. It maxes at what you see in throughput. There is nothing you can do to change it with the X58 platform. I advise you use the NATIVE INTEL SATA PORTS only, move the drives to the INTEL PORTS and disable the GSATA as they are third party.

More info here: http://www.overclock.net/t/1179518/seans-ssd-buyers-guide-information-thread#user_Installation

Use the Intle ports (non-GSATA) and our system will have slightly lower sequential speeds, however boot speeds will decrease, responsiveness will increase and you will have TRIM support as the GSATA ports do not support TRIM.
Where did you read that? All you need is the Intel Rapid storage ttechnology driver .exe I linked you. The F6 driver is only if you are installing windows to a RAID array and upon installation your raid array is not viewable. In that case you load the F6 .inf file off a usb or CD. No need.
If you like, however you should be fine. Just grab the latest drivers and you will be good. You can leave that enabled, those with speedstep enabled help with power savings when your PC is not under load, they will reduce the voltage at idle or low usage and thus decrease heat output as well.
Yes you can disable esata if you dont use it.

good so far, your sequencial wwent to SATA 2 speeds. That is fine. There is no difference in normal use b/w 280 vs 500 MB/s max reads.
Your 4K speeds went up a lot and your latency went down, that is great! That is what you need to be concerned about with SSDs, not sequential speeds.

you're good. Don't bother with the crappy Marvell SATA 3 ports if you have them. Leave the drive as is.

Install this: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/confirm.aspx?httpDown=http://downloadmirror.intel.com/21408/eng/STOR_Win7_XP_11.2.0.1006.exe&lang=eng&Dwnldid=21408

Then repost a new AS SSD benchmark after.

If this Intel DH55HC is your motherboard you do not have the Marvell SATA 6Gb/s ports on your mobo, they are all SATA 3Gb/s.

Download crystal disk info: http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

Open it and select your drive.

After that go to function > Advanced feature > Raw values > 10 [DEC]


Then post a screenshot of all the drive's smart data. (entire crystal disk info window)