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[NonSequitur777]

@Filippopune,

Summarizing: your SSD will be much faster than your old (HDD) hard drive. Adding additional drives doesn't split your speed; each drive has its own lane to communicate with the computer. While your computer might occasionally do background tasks on the other drives (like indexing files), your primary SSD performance remains independent.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[Filippopune]

My C: drive (SSD) is reading at 280 MB/s and writing at 260 MB/s.

It seems quite slow.

Why?

[NonSequitur777]

@Filippopune,

Let's get some info here.

What model SATA SSD do you have (such as a 500GB Samsung 870 Pro)?

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[Filippopune]

WD Blue 3D NAND SATA SSD Internal Solid State Drive 2.5", 500 GB, 530/560 MB/s

Serial ATA-600

Thanks

Regards

Filippo

[NonSequitur777]

@Filippopune,

The speed discrepancy you are seeing is almost certainly a hardware limitation of the HP Pavilion p6-2422el.

Your desktop uses the H-Joshua-H61-uATX (Joshua) motherboard, which is equipped with the Intel H61 Express chipset. This specific chipset only supports SATA II (3 Gbps), which has a maximum real-world throughput of approximately 250–280 MB/s.

Even though you can't reach 500+ MB/s without a new motherboard, you can ensure you aren't losing any additional speed:

1. Verify AHCI Mode: Ensure your BIOS is set to AHCI rather than IDE. IDE mode can cut even SATA II speeds significantly and lacks modern drive management.
2. Enable TRIM: Open a Command Prompt as Administrator and copy/paste/Enter: fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify If the result is 0, TRIM is working. If it's 1, enable it by copy/paste/Enter: fsutil behavior set DisableDeleteNotify 0
3. Check SSD Health: Use the Western Digital Dashboard to check for firmware updates. Some WD Blue models have had performance-improving updates released recently.
4. Free up Space: If your 500GB drive is more than 90% full (less than 50GB free), it will slow down even further as it struggles with background maintenance.

This begs the question: does your computer feel slow during everyday tasks, or are you primarily concerned about these benchmark numbers?  If the latter, ignore them.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[Filippopune]

I checked everything you said. Everything is fine.

Support for the Western Digital Dashboard has ended, and the new KitFox is not compatible with my SSD. I can't update my SSD's firmware.

My C: SSD is only 20% occupied. I use another HDD and another SSD for my data and virtual memory.

My PC is working fine, but I have Windows 11 without updates (the base version).

My RAM and processor are not capable of handling an updated version of Windows 11.

I was thinking about upgrading my hardware, 16 GB of RAM and a new processor.

But given the speed of my SSD, I don't think it's a good idea to spend €200.

What do you think?

[NonSequitur777]

@Filippopune,

What I would do is this:

Max out your RAM: 2 x 8GB DDR3 PC3-12800, 1600 MHz, Non-ECC, UDIMM, 240-pin RAM sticks.

Upgrade your processor (you probably got the stock Intel Core i5-3330) to an Intel Core i7-3770K (or i7-3770 whichever is least expensive).

Optional graphics card upgrade: even with your stock 300-watt you can power a low-profile model RTX 3050 (fitted with the full-size PCIe bracket), a GTX 1650, or a GTX 1050 Ti.  You could even upgrade your ATX power supply in order to power even more powerful graphics cards.

Look, your HP Pavilion p6-2422el Desktop PC (D2L58EA) is definitely upgradeable, but it is aging so I wouldn't spend too much more money on it.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[Filippopune]

Thank you for your support.

Kind regards 

Filippo