Pheonix Pro 120GB Not Near Rated Speeds

[Joshmon]

Drive not performing anywhere close to advertised speeds, tested average 149.2MB/s. Advertised speed up to 285MB/s. System is ICH10R chipset (ASUS P6T) with latest bios. AHCI was enabled prior to a clean install of Windows 7. Intel RST 9.6 is installed and boots with OS. SSD firmware version is 2.1. SSD has 40GB unused space available average, and test was performed after cleaning temp folders, recycle bin etc. Disk defrag is disabled. SSD is installed on a SATA II port. My 300GB Velociraptors in RAID-0 had much better sustained read performance than this SSD, which this purchase replaced and was supposed to out perform across the board.

Am I doing something wrong here, or is this SSD defective? Thanks for any input.

[major53]

joshmon what bench mark tool are you using.that ssd sound like it is only @ half the speed it should be,also may try upgrading the firmware.but to me it sound like the ssd is defective .try using crystaldiskmark and seeing what you get.

[Joshmon]

I used HD Tune. I did submit an RMA, and after talking with the tech apparently it is defective. I do appreciate the info though major, thanks.

[G.SKILL]

Hi Joshmon,

Please disable the c-state option,it can affect HD tune read performance.
use secure erase tool to clean its bad blocks.