added 2nd SSD (Vertex 2)

[bmmorgan06]

I added a second SSD to my system for Steam games.

I have an X58 board & the only sata slots i had open were red JMicron ports.

I have a couple questions, this vertex 2 is supposed to be fast, but it is only reading at 180MB/s and writing at 80MB/s. Is this because it is running through the JMicron ports?

Also, my main SSD is an intel 510 series & it reads at like 250 and writes at 180 or so...

My intel SSD has a utility that I run the trim function. Does the OCZ Vertex 2 just run automatically unmanaged?

Thanks

 

[Dangman]

It's probably because you got one of the newer Vertex 2 SSDs that are known to be fairly slow.

 

[bmmorgan06]

you trollin' bru?

 

[Aesma]

No he's not. But you should remove whatever you have on Intel SATA2 that is slower (hard drive, DVD drive...) and put it on the JMicron, while putting the Vertex 2 on the Intel.

As for your Intel SSD, I don't think you should have to run a trim utility on it, and certainly not on the Vertex 2. That is, if you run Vista or 7. Those utilities are for XP.