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

[ebturner]

I'm stumped why the performance is so bad.    You are correct that the host controller says 6.0gb when clicked.

All I can think now is there is a software / driver issue of some sort.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

I'm stumped too.

I still believe it is the size and rotational speed of the drive that hinders performance.

I have a smaller 240 GB SSD in one of my 8200 Elite CMT's running W10 Pro with i7-2600, 32 GB of memory, and I cannot justify buying a new PC, because this thing flies.

[ebturner]

Thanks Paul,

Now looking at the benchmarks on that drive... you might be absolutely correct.   Man I feel stupid....never thought of that until you mentioned it.   lol!

Thank you so much for your time and expertise!   I learned something new today.  I'm actually running faster than most with that drive.    I might have had a 7200 in there before... will have to upgrade again.

https://hdd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/243570/ST4000DM004-2CV104

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Anytime.

Glad to have been of assistance.

When I bought one of mine new in 2011, it came standard with a Seagate 1 TB 7,200 RPM SATA III hard drive.

The other 8200 Elite, I bought on eBay several years later.

No doubt yours came with a SATA III 7,200 RPM drive.

The only thing that I don't like about the 8200 Elite series is that there are no USB 3 ports, and I have to say those are nice when you do backups with a USB 3 portable hard drive plugged into a USB 3 port.