my hard drives(benchmarks) slowed down after installing a new sata II controller.

[LittleJ]

I have a asus K8S-MX mobo, which is sata I.
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=0kP4nePr06XiYdYQ&templete=2
I got a new SSD and have a older western digital drive. So I thought I'd speed things up some and get a new sata II controller card. I bought a rosewill RC-211 card from newegg. No raid running.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816132008

I got it up and running, then checked hdtune and crystal disk mark to see how it was doing. It was much slower. the HDD and SSD both topped out about 75 mb/s. Which is much slower than what they where with the the mobo's sata I. flashed the bios and updated the drivers and it didn't help any. I tried running in both windows 7 and windows XP, on different hard drives.

I called rosewill, they said as longed as it worked, at all, they couldn't help. any suggestions of what I could try?? thanks.

jason

 

[taltamir]

Mobo controllers are usually much much better. There are less "steps" and controllers in the way to slow things down. 30$ add in controllers are just not worth it in terms of quality (300$ ones are a different matter of course)... if you want a faster controller upgrade your mobo.
You expect rosewill to tell you their produce is crap?

If you can, return that rosewill crap to the store for a refund. if you still want an upgrade, then upgrade your mobo for a better built in controller.