Desktops & All-In-Ones

[karlylite]

Hello all. I am stuck.

I have an Aspire x3400 with nForce 720a chipset (??) which should support SATA II.

I have installed a Intel 530 SSD which is SATA III.

I boots fine after cloning the old drive to this new one. And it is quicker no doubt to load windows 7 - 64 bit.

AS SSD shows Seq read of 130 MB/S and ~ 99 MB/S write.

As well the ATA controller in Device Manager, says it is a Gen 1 Speed. (while the old drive connected externally via eSATA says it is at Gen2).

I have tried the generic ATA controller and have also update to latest Nvidea driver for the controller. I have tried a new cable, and tried a different SATA port. No change.

Any thoughts on how to get this SSD to SATA II speeds?

Thanks

[finlux]

Hi Karlylite

Try looking on Intel's site, to see if there is a firmware update for your 530 SSD.

[karlylite]

Thanks for the suggestion. I am running DC32 the lates for this drive.

I read somewhere that the nForce 720a hard defaulted to SATA1 when it didn't recognoze the newer SATA3 drives. So instead of dropping to SATAII it defaults to SATA1. 

I am not stating this as fact, but just a possible explanation.

Cheers!

[karlylite]

Any other thoughts?