Is the SATA ports of my motherboard can handle an SSD speed ?

[wwwGeneral1]

Hi,

I just wanted to know if my motherboard can handle the speed of an SSD in SATA III.

Because I pluged an SSD Crucial MX500 1 To in one of the SATA port but when I checked his speed it doesn't go higher than 130 mb/s.

I also checked the type of SATA and it says SATA 1 which is weird because my old HDD is in SATA 3.

I tried to switch the port between SSD and HDD but it doens't change anything.

My computer : OMEN by HP 875-1000 Obelisk Desktop PC  (6VL65EA)

Thank you for reading, I hope you can awnser me !

[TheOldMan]

According to the spec page for that model PC and the info for the Shire motherboard

https://support.hp.com/emea_africa-en/document/c06218422

It has a slot for M2. SSD plus the SATA ports for two SATA HDD's.  While it does not note the SATA speed,  Since the controller can run the M2 SSD, the SATA speeds should be SATA III speed, too.

[wwwGeneral1]

Thank you for your awnser !

My question is more to know if it is normal that my SSD isn't running at his full speed (500mb/s) ?

[TheOldMan]

The Crucial MX500 is capable for those speeds, however it depends on the software being used to measure that speed and the amount of data being transferred.

Please explain how this transfer speed is being measured.

[wwwGeneral1]

In order to measure the speed I used the software AS SSD Benchmark with 1GB of transfer :

While my HDD has this speed : 

[TheOldMan]

That software seems to be reliable based on the comments I saw.

According to the specs for the model you posted, it is supposed to also have a M2 drive (SSD 256 Go PCIe NVMe M.2)  installed.  Does the AS SSD Benchmark software see that drive, also?  What are the speeds for that drive?

[wwwGeneral1]

The software does see that drive, the speed in terms of writing seems a bit low but normal cause the OS is running on it :

[itsmyname]

@wwwGeneral1 -- is this the SSD that you have: Crucial® MX500 Solid State Drive | Crucial.com

That page says "6 Gbps", which is SATA iII speed, and it says  Sequential reads/writes up to 560/510MB/s

> I also checked the type of SATA and it says SATA 1 which is weird because my old HDD is in SATA 3.

That implies that your motherboard should support SATA 3 with your SSD.

Did you check with the free version of the SPECCY utility? It gives information about the speed of the motherboard's SATA ports, and the "rated" and "actual" connection speed of the disk-drive.

[wwwGeneral1 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for your help, this utility is very nice.

I called HP support and they said that "it's normal that my SSD speed is lower than expected on this port". (which I still found abnormal but anyway ...).

So I made the decision to send my SSD back and buy an Nvme ...

I'm going to close this thread.

Thanks all for your awnsers !

[BeemerBiker]

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@wwwGeneral1 wrote:

Hi,

I just wanted to know if my motherboard can handle the speed of an SSD in SATA III.

Because I pluged an SSD Crucial MX500 1 To in one of the SATA port but when I checked his speed it doesn't go higher than 130 mb/s.

I also checked the type of SATA and it says SATA 1

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MX500 should be 400mBytes in speed but your 130mB is sata 1 speed

what does HWINFO64 show for the controller speed? 

For example, my Area-51 shows  6gb for my 7200rpm HDD and

shows PCIe 4x 8.0 GT/s for my Samsung m.2

Your MX500 is highly rated