HP Compaq 8200 Elite SFF SATA III does not seem to be working

[ebturner]

Hello and thank you in advance for the help!

I have a HP Compaq 8200 Elite SFF paired up with a Seagate ST4000DM004-2CV1 SATA3 (6gb/s) drive.  The performance is terrible and I cannot figure out why.   This is a new drive.   My old drive seemed really slow as well.   I don't think its a problem with the drive.   Bios is up to date.    There are no Windows 10-64bit drivers on the HP site, so I don't know if its a driver issue.

On benchmark I'm getting this:
Transfer Rate Minimum : 2.0 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 1118.4 MB/sec   (there was one high speed spike, lol!)
Transfer Rate Average : 148.3 MB/sec
Access Time : 15.7 ms
Burst Rate : 116.3 MB/sec
CPU Usage : 2.6%

Capacity : 2048.0 GB (~2199.0 GB)
Buffer size : n/a
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-0 - SATA II
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 6 (Ultra ATA/133)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 5 (Ultra ATA/100)

It seems to be running in SATA II mode?   I've tried changing cables, made sure its in the SATA-0 port.    Can anyone shed some light on this for me.   

HP Bios Version 2.10.1208
SATA Emulation is AHCI Mode (in the bios)

[wb2001]

@ebturner,

Unit is circa 2011. Has 2 SATA 6Gb/s and 4 SATA 3GB/s ports. Be sure in the correct port.

HP 8200 series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_business_desktops

Chipset Q67 definition/specs https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/52812/intel-q67-express-chipset.html

Q67 chip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets#LGA_1155

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi, @ebturner 

I have two 8200 Elite CMT's and both the SATA 0 and SATA 1 ports are SATA III.  The other two are not.

I have zipped up and attached a free utility below that will show you the drive speed and the drive controller speed.

Run the program, and close out of the summary window.

On the left side of the program window, click to expand the Drives category.

Click to expand the (S)ATA/ATAPI Drives category.

Click on your Seagate ST4000DM004 hard drive.

On the right side of the window, the first report listed will be the drive speed and the drive controller speed.

Mine shows:

Drive Controller: Serial ATA 6Gb/s @ 6Gb/s

That is what yours should show.

[ebturner]

Thanks, but I do have the drive connected to SATA port 0.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

If the drive is not connected to SATA port 0 or 1, the other port is  SATA II only.

See the quickspecs below, page 22 for under the Controller specs.

The SFF has two SATA III ports and one SATA II port.

http://shop.itema-pg.com/userfiles/editor/file/hp8200sff.pdf

[ebturner]

Thanks Paul!

Nice utility...   The DRIVE controller is 6gb SATA III.   I know the drive supports it.

But I don't feel the host controller is operating at the SATA III speed.   If you look at the benchmarks its barely performing at SATA I speeds...   150MB/sec average

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Maybe because it is a 4 TB drive and the slow rotation speed?

Do you have the drive controller set to AHCI and if so, what driver version and date is it?

You can find that controller listed in the device manager under the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers device manager category.

[ebturner]

Only one drive connected...the boot drive.   And its in SATA0 from what I can tell.

[ebturner]

Thanks Paul,

Its what windows installed.  There are no "new" drivers when I tell it to update.  😞

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Yes, it is in the right port.

Anyway, the HWINFO report confirms the drive and controller are running at the max rate (6.0 GB/S).

You have the latest drive controller driver installed, so you are good there too.