Crucial M4 SSD Upgrade Running Slow

I just installed a Crucial M4 256gb SSD on my M11x R1.

When I run HDTune it is getting around 160 MB/sec transfer speeds which is about 50 MB/sec slower than the previous gen Crucial C300.

Is there something with the M11x R1 that caps the SSD performance?

 

Can't remember their specs off the top of my head, but i know the M4's strength is it's random read/write rather than sequential. It also has wicked low power consumption.

 

Try check using AS SSD benchmark or CrystalDiskMark (beware of the crapware that it tries to install) instead of HD Tune.

 

Are you're intel chipset drivers installed? If not then do that first.

Also is your computer noticeably faster during boots, opening up applications, etc? Then you really shouldn't worry about synthetic benchmarks as they rarely tell you about real world performance accurately.

 

Synthetic or not, assuming HD Tune only test hdd performance, so comparing apples to apples, my friend's computer with a C300 side by side with my laptop with a M4 and my current gen SSD is losing by a great amount. Something is definitely an issue.

I've been installing new bios, intel chipset to see if anything changes and nada.

 

transfer speeds arent really that important anyways. IOPS are what you really need to be considered about. You can easily raid 2 or 3 harddrives with transfer speeds of 300-400 mb/s, but that doesnt mean its gonna be faster than a ssd.

You also have to consider that the R1 isnt really a powerful computer to begin with so a ssd wont really perform at its best in one.

Edit:

Have you also tried running through a ssd tweak guide...theres multiple versions online that basically state the same stuff:
http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f128/ssd-tweak-guide-236563/

Heres one i found on google

 

That's the problem. What constitutes as "higher" performance in a synthetic test does not usually reflect how it actually performs under real world tasks.

Relying on a synthetic test to determine how fast your SSD is, is like using the Windows Experience Index rating to determine how fast your PC is.

The sequential write of the Crucial M4 is below 100MB/s, so it WILL score badly just for that, but as i stated earlier the random read is it's strong suit which does perform significantly higher than the C300.

 

lol no, transfer speeds are just as important as all the other speeds. the crucial m4's 64gb, have a read speed of around 420mb/s and 90mb/s read. and there is something up with your configuration. make sure AHCI is enabled in the bios, and no power saving features are engaged on the ssd. I have 2 M4's in RAID 0 and im getting 1000mb/s read and 230 mb/s write..

 

Well it depends, the OP simply said "transfer speeds". Transfer from where to where? Perhaps it is bottlenecked somewhere else, not at the SSD?

This is my 128GB Crucial M4 in my M11x R3:



But as far as "transfer speeds" go, i'm getting like 50MB/s to my external.