Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB - What am I doing wrong?

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It should be faster, mine are these:

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I did install the Marvell SATA 3 drivers for my controller

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Your board also has a Marvell controller, have you done the same?

My controller is also set to AHCI.

The driver is here:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/...?ProductID=3234&ost=windows+7+64bit#anchor_os


EDIT: Is it plugged into a SATA 3 socket?
 
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Rocketman I believe the pciide from as ssd bench means you are running in ide mode not ahci.

I think this makes no difference, at least it didn't with my Crucial 64gb ssd and I have seen few people having no ahci enabled in bios and they had full speeds with their drives.
 
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It should be faster, mine are these:

bench1.jpg


I did install the Marvell SATA 3 drivers for my controller

http://img532.imageshack.us/img532/2158/marvell.jpg

Your board also has a Marvell controller, have you done the same?

My controller is also set to AHCI.

The driver is here:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/...?ProductID=3234&ost=windows+7+64bit#anchor_os


EDIT: Is it plugged into a SATA 3 socket?

There's a newer driver available btw, also updates the config device driver.

http://www.station-drivers.com/tele...ru4.1.0.1601-all(www.station-drivers.com).exe
 
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No, its a drive-to-drive clone of my crucial m225 256gb. I had hoped using Acronis TI would save the hassle of reinstalling :(

Is it so much of a hassle to do a reinstall? Personally I would do a clean install with the C300 to see if it makes a difference. Just run the benchmark again before you start a couple of times to confirm that it is still the same as before.
 
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Is it so much of a hassle to do a reinstall? Personally I would do a clean install with the C300 to see if it makes a difference. Just run the benchmark again before you start a couple of times to confirm that it is still the same as before.

I've done a reinstall, but I still can't get the drive to be controlled by the Marvell driver. The drive is definately plugged in to one of the SATA 3 ports, I've downloaded and installed the Marvell driver off Gigabyte website, and I've changed the GSATA setting in the BIOS to AHCI. I've re-run AS SSD Benchmark, and I'm still not getting over 200 for sequential read :confused:

The drive is listed under device manager as C300-CTFDDAC256MAG ATA Device if this helps, and I have Marvell 91xx Config Device listed under System devices, but it states that no driver files are loaded for this device?
 
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The only two places where the C300 and controller show up are here are ‘disk drives’ and ‘storage controllers’:

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I'm on a ASUS P6X58D, have you tried your motherboard support forum?
 
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