Very Slow ssd read n write

[EdHatherley]

I recently upgraded to a kingston a400 ssd.
Problem is, the read and write speeds are unacceptable... 131.7 on the read, 59.06 on the write!  Crazy slow.
I talked with a rep from Kingston Tech and was on the phone for about an hour trying different settigs, such as disabling write caching and indexing on the drive (windows 10), and it made no difference at all.
Then he had me go to the bios and try some things... enable sata native mode, but the machine would not boot after that, so we deisabled it again.
Then he had me look for a setting, ACHI, I believe, but that setting option is not there.

So, I need a solution to this problem.
would a bios update fix anything? and if so, how do I update the bios? Is there a flash utility?  I have the bios updates for this unit (laptop) downloaded, but have not attempted to flash yet, as I don't know yet how to flash the bios on this rig.
The only other thing I could try, is to take the ssd out of the laptop and hook it up in my tower unit, as a secondary, and run Crystal Disk Mark on the ssd again and see if the numbers come up to what the teck guy says they should be, which is 400mbs or better. 
So I have that text to run yet.
Thanks so much in advance for any help on this matter, as I feel I've just spent a hundred dollars for  nothing, as the 160gb mechanical drive that was in the laptop before, actually produced higher read n write than this ssd. Which is just wrong   :  /

-Ed

[banhien]

@EdHatherley 

The nx, nc series are VERY old machines which use SATA II controllers. Even with SSD, it CAN'T go pass SATA II speed. Just thinking about you have a racing car and you can ONLY drive on city streets with speed limit to 30Kmh

Regards.

[EdHatherley]

So Im outa luck then? No bios or chipset updates to fix the slow ssd?  Kingston seemed to think I should get around 400 read out of it, but didn't have a solution.  Its actually getting worse for some reason. 103 read, and like, 56 write.  Weird. and unfortunate, as I love my hp laptop and its actually doing a great job at the triple boot Im running...win7,10 and Linux Ubuntu.
Thot the ssd upgrade was going to great, but it turns out all I get is more capacity..160gb to 480. darn. But thanks Banhien

[EdHatherley]

Hello,
The time issure seems solved, now to chase down this slow ssd.  I understand what you are saying , but something tells me that this should be solvable.  I was looking at the device mngr and there are issues, and they have to do with large storage or something like that. and a pci issue as well, So I need to fix those issues and see if they solve the slowness.
The Kingston Tech I was talking with, says there is something missing from my bios.  Something about AHCI or something...forget the acronum,  But I was looking at another pc i have here, and it has an entry in the dievice manger about this AHCI and mentionss in its property sheet,  something about sata.  So I believe I'm short a driver of sorts, that helps drive this ssd at it's best.  I ran a test with it on the tower I have here, as a slave and a master, with different results.
Slave produced write and read speeds around 270, and as a master, the speeds went well over 500mbs, 570 if I recall. Im not in front of my notes right now, as i"m away from the house for the day.  I can elaberate more on it later.
But,  do you think a bios update would help? and how do I go about that exactly, on the this laptop (updating the bios).  I have the bios files downloaded already.
Thanks.

[EdHatherley]

Hello again.
I believe we can get to the bottom of this slow ssd I just installed...
I took some snaps of my device mngr, showing the drive details, and the fact that there is no mention of sata  or ahci.  This ssd is running in Ata/ide mode, I gather.
  "Sata Native Mode"  in the bios is currently set to "Disabled".   When I  "Enabled" it,   I couldn't boot into windows.  There was an error on bootup.  So I went and changed that "Sata Native Mode" back to  "Disabled".
So How can I  install and or enable  SATA/AHCI  mode, on this laptop?
Also in the "device manager" you can see that there is an issue with a couple of things in the "other devices" section.  I need to clear thos up as well.  Probabley the mass storage issure is to do with the large ;ssd I installed, and the fact its not running in SATA/AHCI  mode.
Hope my snapshots work.  Surely I dont have all drivers installed since my drive change and windows 7 and 10 installs.
And I'm still haveing a problem with windows 10 not keeping time. Even tho Windows Time service is running. and its set to autosync with an internet server.  :  /

[ja666]

I guess you need to enable Sata native mode in BIOS first, then install Windows.

With Win XP that needed a floppy disk with AHCI drivers and using Fn6 during Win XP installation to run floppy from external USB drive (i.e. TEAC floppy drive).

I guess Win 10 goes easier way. Might be you need to run Intel drivers' update program after WIn installation.

After Win installation, if you change SATA setting in your BIOS (enable->disable or disable->enable) the disk becomes non-recognizable.

I run nc6320 both with SSD (Intel 160 GB, win XP) or HDDs (i.e. WD Black 750 GB, Win 10).

What suprized me, Win 10 have found almost all of the necessary for nc6320 drivers on its' own, unbelieveable.