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 > > > >
