SSD Woes

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Hello...

 

I purchased a Kingston HyperX 3K 120Gb SSD and I am using it in a Gigabyte 990FXA - UD3H Motherboard.

 

I am aware that all 6 SATA ports are 6Gb per second (SATA 3) but my SSD is not performing anywhere near to its advertised specs (555 mb/s read, 510 mb/s write) it is instead working at a whopping speed of 306.5 mb/s read and 181.8 mb/s write... 

What should I do??  I am fairly new to the PC building environment (7 months)

 

I am not 100% sure if the 6 SATA ports are all from the South Bridge or not... from what I gathered by the manual they all are

 
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all responses are greatly appreciated

 

also if this helps anyone help me my WD Caviar Black 1TB is running at 117 Read 113 Write

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A lot of 990FX boards have 4/5 SATA 3 ports running on the AMD-southbridge and they include 1/2 additional SATA 3 ports running on something like a Marvell/Asmedia SATA3 PCI-Express chipset. The last mentioned additional chipsets tend to perform at around the levels you are reporting. Try changing SATA ports and see what happens. See if you're within 10% of the advertised speeds.