Well apart from the fact that I cannot update the firmware, I ran a bench and am getting speeds less than half of advertised.
It is in the correct port and I have it running AHCI (it is only a storage drive my boot drive is a Crucial M4).
How so?
I thought seeing as people had benched them i'd give it a go, same result as you.
203mb/s read 148mb/s write.
My VERTEX 2 OCZ drive which is old and on sata 2 gets 226.3mb/s read and 59mb/s write, confused. The OCZ drive beat it everytime on the read speeds.
Does benching a drive that's the boot/OS drive hinder bench results? As it has to still us run the system whilst the bench runs? Either way, in terms of figures, it's nothing like what was stated.