Hey everyone, I just got my m14x the other day and following the guide on the site installed a HyperX 240 GB SSD as primary and the 500GB WD Black it came with in the optical drive caddy. At first I was getting I/O errors constantly and about 3MB/s on the 2nd HDD. I read a couple post about others having the same issue, to fix it I just installed the IRST drivers that came with the m14x and it has worked flawlessly since. Hope this helps some of you!
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Do you get SATA 6Gbps speeds with RST installed? +REP (haha your first post)
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I didn't test without the IRST drivers, but after Im getting Sata II speeds. I think Ive seem somewhere else on the forum that w/o the IRST you get 6Gbps is that correct?
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Yes, w/o IRST for me 6 Gbps. I just keep MSAHCI driver and Intel chipset. Have you tried the newest one from here? BTFW lol I do not have a caddy/HDD, only SSD.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Sea...s+Chipset&ProdId=3321&LineId=1088&FamilyId=40
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I would like to know too if you can achieve sata 6Gbs on the hyperx ssd without hanging issues. Mine is also running sata 2 speed and I want to take advantage of the read and write of this ssd
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I will have to try that thanks
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Just wanted to update this post, I still haven't changed my setup so using IRST and I downloaded AS SSD benchmark and it seems even though IRST says my SSD is sata 2 its getting sata 3 speeds 506 read and 290 write so I think i will leave well enough alone...
Fixed slow R/W on 2nd HDD in caddy
Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by KEEVS, Nov 24, 2011.