On 22/05/19 22:44, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > I just put an SSD into my hp dl585g7. I used the provided sata SSD drive > connector, it's on the same sata driver that runs the optical drive. It's > terribly slow to boot etc. Is this just a slow controller designed to keep > up with an optical drive and swamped by an SSD? would pulling the optical > drive help?
If this were PATA I'd say definitely. But SATA was supposed to fix this. Try it anyway is my guess. > I may wind up hooking it to the internal SAS controller with a suitable > cable (there are 2 cables to the plugable hard drive area, i could swap one > for another cable as I'm only using 2 hard drives. I'd just need to extend > the power from the built in ssd connector. Advice? Suggestions?? At this > point it's slow to boot like a thumb drive on USB 2 or an optical drive. I > have an identical SSD in my desktop and it runs near the rated 500MB/s so I'm > confident the SSD is good. > Your other SSD is good? Doesn't mean this one isn't faulty. > > "We the People Dare to Create a More Perfect Union" <aclu.org> Cheers, Wol
