Does HP 15-f209wm laptop support SATA/600 (SATA 3)?

[ZapZapdos]

Hello, I want to know if the HP 15-f209wm laptop supports SATA/600 (SATA 3) or not.

I bought a SATA/600 SSD (Transcend SSD220S 240GB) to put in the laptop to improve speed. I cloned the existing HDD to the SSD using Acronis and opened the laptop up and replaced it (very tricky btw). Anyway, it worked and now the laptop is using the SSD. However, it doesn't seem that speedy. I measured with 2 different softwares and sequential read and write is around 280 and 260. I then ran CrystalDiskInfo and it says that the current transfer mode is SATA/300 (SATA 2), although it says SATA/600 (3) is 'supported'. Now I don't know whether that means it is supported by the whole system or only the SSD itself supports it.

I have checked Device Manager and it seems that AHCI is on. So maybe the motherboard doesn't support it? The only problem is I can't find proper specs for the laptop so I don't even know what the motherboard is let alone whether it supports SATA/600 (3). And if it DOES INDEED support SATA/600 (3), why is the SSD not utilizing it? Maybe the motherboard supports it but the cable inside is cheap and doesn't? Or I have to install Windows form scratch instead of cloning? I am frustrated, pls help! Thank you!

[banhien]

@ZapZapdos 

It does support SATA 3. The reason you can't see much improvement because its RAM (only 4GB) and CPU (only Intel Celeron N2840 Processor ). Its specs

     https://support.hp.com/hk-en/document/c04770536

Regards.