https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/winsat-r-w-results-for-ssd-worse-than-sata-hard-drive/m-p/10714#M2244 <P>Running winsat in win7 on my PC's SATA drive shows approx 104 Mb/s seq read and 113 Mb/s seq write. </P><P></P><P>After running winsat on the new Intel 530 Series 120GB SSD the results drop to 34 Mb/s seq read, and 29 Mb/s seq write.</P><P></P><P>How is it possible that the SSD is so much slower than the old SATA drive? Does this indicate a bad SSD?</P> Sat, 01 Nov 2014 14:57:48 GMT jjt 2014-11-01T14:57:48Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/winsat-r-w-results-for-ssd-worse-than-sata-hard-drive/m-p/10714#M2244 <P>Running winsat in win7 on my PC's SATA drive shows approx 104 Mb/s seq read and 113 Mb/s seq write. </P><P></P><P>After running winsat on the new Intel 530 Series 120GB SSD the results drop to 34 Mb/s seq read, and 29 Mb/s seq write.</P><P></P><P>How is it possible that the SSD is so much slower than the old SATA drive? Does this indicate a bad SSD?</P> Sat, 01 Nov 2014 14:57:48 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/winsat-r-w-results-for-ssd-worse-than-sata-hard-drive/m-p/10714#M2244 jjt 2014-11-01T14:57:48Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/winsat-r-w-results-for-ssd-worse-than-sata-hard-drive/m-p/10715#M2245 <P>The winsat results were obtained by connecting the SSD to my PC going through a USB 2.0 port.. </P><P></P><P>After installing the SSD in a laptop, winsat reports 261 Mb/s seq read and 161 Mb/s seq write.</P> Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:32:05 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/winsat-r-w-results-for-ssd-worse-than-sata-hard-drive/m-p/10715#M2245 jjt 2014-11-01T17:32:05Z