https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/my-intel-320-120gb-is-slow/m-p/10684#M8322 <P>I have the same issue besides applications freezing. What's the most compatible Intel/AMD PCI controller for this type of SSD?</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P> Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:50:54 GMT idata 2011-07-06T13:50:54Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/my-intel-320-120gb-is-slow/m-p/10682#M8320 <P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>I just bought an Intel 320 120GB, but I'm not happy with the benchmark-results I get.</P><P></P><P>Im running Windows 7 on a laptop, but I don't believe AHCI is enabled. I can't find it as an option in my BIOS.</P><P>My laptop: HP Compaq CQ50-110EO.</P><P></P><P>Even though AHCI isn't enabled, I don't believe I should get these results.</P><P></P><P>Performing some benchmarks:</P><P>AS SSD: <A href="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/860/asssd.png/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/860/asssd.png/</A> <A href="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/860/asssd.png/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/860/asssd.png/</A></P><P>CrystalDiskMark: <A href="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/706/crystaldiskmark2.png/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/706/crystaldiskmark2.png/</A> <A href="http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/706/crystaldiskmark2.png/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/706/crystaldiskmark2.png/</A></P><P></P><P>I have run Intel SSD Optimizer, enabled Trim, disabled Defragmentation, Superfetch, Prefetch and ReadyBoost.</P><P></P><P>What do you say about the performance of my SSD?</P><P>Is there a way to fix it?</P><P></P><P>Very grateful for help!</P> Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:58:33 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/my-intel-320-120gb-is-slow/m-p/10682#M8320 idata 2011-06-02T22:58:33Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/my-intel-320-120gb-is-slow/m-p/10683#M8321 <P>It looks like that laptop uses an NVIDIA chipset. Unfortunately, NVIDIA SATA controllers do not fully support AHCI and is limiting the performance of the SSD.</P><P></P><P>If you plug your Intel 320 into a system with an Intel/AMD controller with AHCI, you should see much better performance.... the sequential writes will be higher and the 4K numbers will be up.</P> Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:07:18 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/my-intel-320-120gb-is-slow/m-p/10683#M8321 idata 2011-06-04T03:07:18Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/my-intel-320-120gb-is-slow/m-p/10684#M8322 <P>I have the same issue besides applications freezing. What's the most compatible Intel/AMD PCI controller for this type of SSD?</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P> Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:50:54 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/my-intel-320-120gb-is-slow/m-p/10684#M8322 idata 2011-07-06T13:50:54Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/my-intel-320-120gb-is-slow/m-p/10685#M8323 <P>Intel does not produce PCI storage controllers.</P><P></P><P>I would also advise you not to use a PCI controller because:</P><P>1) Most are ancient with limited driver support</P><P>2) PCI is limited to 133MB/s for the entire bus. All devices on the bus share that avaliable bandwidth so your SSD will be bottlenecked. </P> Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:32:55 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/my-intel-320-120gb-is-slow/m-p/10685#M8323 idata 2011-07-06T15:32:55Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/my-intel-320-120gb-is-slow/m-p/10686#M8324 <P>Thanks for the advice. I'll be looking at getting a Hybrid HDD instead and save the SSD for the nest PC. Any recommendation on an excellent Hybrid compatible with XPS720?</P> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:15:25 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/archive/my-intel-320-120gb-is-slow/m-p/10686#M8324 idata 2011-07-07T15:15:25Z