[fishcandy]

Recently installed an EVO 850 500GB SSD and getting 401/382 Seq read/write benchmarks through Magician and same with DiskMark64. I have set the SSD to maximum performance which is showing AHCI mode and SATA 3 (6 Gb/s) interface, and I have rechecked all connections. I used Samsung's Data Migration software to clone my HHD which was a total of 60 GB +/-. Everything seems to be working fine, startup and shutdown is fast as well as opening programs.

My setup; Windows 7 Pro 64bit, Asus Sabertooth Z77 MB, Intel 3570K @ 4.2 MHz turbo boost, 4GB Patriot memory @1648 MHz, GTX 970 and EVO 850/WDC 500GB. Feedback would be appreciated.

 

[bogdankr]

Check the port the drive is connected to. If it is connected to ASMedia SATA 6Gb gray port reconnect it to Intel SATA 6Gb brown port.

 

[fishcandy]

bogdankr you nailed it! The Intel SATA port was hiding under my 12" long graphics card. DiskMark benchmark is now 553/520 read/write which is where it should be...thanks. Great drive by the way.