Re: Question: SSD speed
Hi Hans,
6Gb/s is the maximum speed of SATA controller. Each SSD has its own
speed. For example maximum speed for SATA SSDs from Samsung is about
500MB/s what is about (8*500MB/s) 4Gb/s.
HTH
Kind regards
Georgi
On 10/7/20 11:39 AM, Hans wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a little question. Smartctl is telling me, that my ssd drive is 6Gb/sec
> capable, but the actual speed is only 1,5GB/sec.
>
> The notebook is a little bit older, AMD CPU with 2x2,4 GHz, 4GB RAM, debian/
> testing.
>
> My question is now: How is the speed of the ssd set? Is it set by the hardware
> or is it set during loading the kernel module?
>
> And is there a possibility to set the speed to 6Gb/sec , i.e. by setting some
> parameters or by loading the kernel modules with additional tags?
>
> I searched the web, but found no other information than "use trimming" (which
> does the kernel during installation automatically, and this system is
> correctly trimmed).
>
> It would be nice, if someone knows more. Strangely, my netbook got 3Gb/sec, my
> Notebook only 1,5 Gb/sec, so I have the idea, it might be a configuration
> thing.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Best regards
>
> Hans
>
>
>
>
Reply to: