So maybe i am a bit confused but it seems that my Ailienware M17xR3 does not seem to be set to leverage the throughput of my ne SSD SATA III drive I just upgraded to from my SATA II drive.
My understanding is that the M17xR3 is a SATA III supporting laptop (max throughput up to 600MB/s). As such I would have naturally expected to see higher throughput from my SATA III SSD. My new drive is an OCZ AGILITY 3 240GB drive with a controller that supports 6gbps that has throughput capability just over 500MB/s.
But when I executed a few HDTUNE throughput test on this newly install SATA III drive n my Ailianware, I am getting the same throughput that my older SATA II SSD drive and not close the SATA III performance numbers.
Here is image of my test :
And below is the Drive Details info from the same test :
So basically, does the M17xR3 support SATA III ? If so, is this all anyone should expect from a SATA III drive for Windows / Intel platforms that is no better than a SATA II in real world throughput? Or is something not configured properly that is not allowing my system to fully leverage my SATA III?