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Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD running at SATA2 Speeds

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Needitcooler

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Hello all,

I just put a new build together with a Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD as my OS drive. After updating everything I can think of (chipset drivers, motherboard BIOS, SSD Firmware) these are the results:

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These are definitely not SATA3 speeds. I have triple checked that I do in fact have the drive plugged into Port1 of my Asus P8Z68-V Gen3 board which is a SATA3 port.

Any ideas? I also emailed Kingston, but they haven't responded.

Full system specs are in signature.

EDIT - Seems like Intel Rapid Storage Application even think it is a SATA2 device. For comparisons sake, my 2 TB Hitachi backup drive shows up in IRST as a SATA3 device. The Hitachi drive is on port 2 whereas the Kingston is on port 1.

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Solved - Turns out I had a bad SATA cable. Never had that happen before...

This looks much better:

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