Getting SATA III

claptonman

claptonman

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So I just bought this drive:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233204

and I'm using this motherboard:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128519

Installed it using Benny Boy's guide and did everything it said to. All 6 SATA ports are SATA III. I did a test using HD tune and its getting the same speeds as my older SATA II model. I look into Speccy and it said the SATA type is SATA II, but the transfer mode is SATA III. Anyway to confirm I'm getting the fastest speeds I can? I looked all over the BIOS and didn't see an option for SATA III or anything.

Another note, the SSD is on the Slave and the HDD is on the master. Does this matter? How can I switch this? Thanks.
 
Try enabling AHCI in the BIOS (you may need to modify some registry keys within Windows so that Windows can still boot in AHCI mode, have a look on the internet), and on some motherboards you have an option between SATA III and USB 3.0, make sure USB 3.0 is disabled and SATA III is enabled.

claptonman said:
All 6 SATA ports are SATA III.
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I doubt every single SATA port is SATA III, the chances are there are maybe 2 or 3 SATA III ports on the motherboard, usually coloured white or grey, so make sure your SSD is plugged into one of those. Have a look in the manual for the motherboard, it'll tell you. You could update your SSD's firmware as well.

claptonman said:
Another note, the SSD is on the Slave and the HDD is on the master. Does this matter? How can I switch this? Thanks.
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I think you just need to make sure that the SSD is plugged into the SATA #1 port on the motherboard and the HDD is plugged in SATA #2 or SATA #3, I didn't think SATA used "master and slave" anyway, I thought that was a PATA thing?
 
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vistakid10 said:
Try enabling AHCI in the BIOS (you may need to modify some registry keys within Windows so that Windows can still boot in AHCI mode, have a look on the internet), and on some motherboards you have an option between SATA III and USB 3.0, make sure USB 3.0 is disabled and SATA III is enabled.


I doubt every single SATA port is SATA III, the chances are there are maybe 2 or 3 SATA III ports on the motherboard, usually coloured white or grey, so make sure your SSD is plugged into one of those. Have a look in the manual for the motherboard, it'll tell you. You could update your SSD's firmware as well.


I think you just need to make sure that the SSD is plugged into the SATA #1 port on the motherboard and the HDD is plugged in SATA #2 or SATA #3, I didn't think SATA used "master and slave" anyway, I thought that was a PATA thing?
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ACHI is enabled, but USB3.0 is a separate option.

Everyone is blue and in the manual and on the website says everyone one is sata 6.0gb/s.

But now that I look at it I don't think the SSD is plugged into the first one, think I got it backwards. I can just plug them into the right ones without doing anything else, correct?

Just did it and it is recognizing it first, but speccy still shows the SATA type as II. And HD tune is still getting the same results.
 
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claptonman said:
I can just plug them into the right ones without doing anything else, correct?
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Yep, just unplug it from its current port and plug it into another one, should run just fine.

Is the HDD SATA II or SATA III? It shouldn't affect the SSD but it could be useful information to know whilst trying to troubledshoot this problem. Have you had a look to see if anybody else is having the same problems with this motherboard on the internet?

Is the SSD firmware up-to-date? You should be able to grab the latest from Corsair's wrbsite.
 
SATAII can support transfer rates up to 375MBps, you won't see any difference going to SATAIII for a single hard drive.
 
OnChip SATA 3.0 Support is enabled and firmware is already up-to-date, v1.3.3. In HDtune under info, it says it is SATA III, but then in Speccy it still says its sata type is SATA II 3.0gb/s. It might be all the fast I can get it, but I was still wondering if anyone has anymore ideas.
 
[-0MEGA-];1715032 said:
SATAII can support transfer rates up to 375MBps, you won't see any difference going to SATAIII for a single hard drive.
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That's not really true...I mean, mathematically yes 3Gb/s is supposed to yield ~384MB/s. But The controllers, encoding, and a variety of other factors will slow that down. The fastest Sata2 I've seen was about ~270MB/s.

Besides, OP isn't talking about Hard Drives. He is talking about his SSD. Which is rated for ~500MB/s. Thus he definitely needs to get his Sata3 ports working correctly.

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@claptonman. Have you checked if your motherboard has a bios update?
 
I plugged my SSD originally into white ports on my gigabyte mobo thinking they were SATA III. They were not, the blue ones were III the whites were hotswap II. Moving the drive over to the blue ports gave me full sata III support. Try a different SATA port if you have not already.
 
Like I said, all my ports are blue. The SSD was on the 5th or 6th, so I moved the SSD over to the SATA0 port. BIOS recognizes it first so it is the first one. I think its going as fast as it can go.
 
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