Why are my SSD speeds so awful??

It's much faster than my old HDD, but shouldn't it be better than this?? It says It's aligned fine and it is in AHCI.

I know it's OCZ and they are crap, but I got it dirt cheap from a good friend.

Looks about right, writes are a bit slow. If that's a 64gb, that is 100% normal.

from my laptop's agility 3 it's 70-80% full (120gb model)

you are on sata 6gb/s right? the agility 3 is slow for incompressible data, which is what that benchmark is for.

ATTO, will show you more likeable values.

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Vertex 3's in RAID 0 on my desktop for comparison

vertex 3's are noticibly faster

agility 3 is a good drive as well

agility 4 and vertex 4 are garbo tho

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Agility is the entry level from OCZ. Those numbers dont look wrong.

agility 4 and vertex 4 are garbo tho

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Vertex 4's are fine. I have half a dozen of them and no issues. Here are the benches for a pair of Vertex 4s I have, a 128 and 256, respectively:

To the Op:

Yeah, the Agility drives are not speed demons by SSD standards, but they are still a hell of a lot faster than a standard HD.

-Byshop

If it makes you feel any better, here's what a "fast" 7200 RPM drive looks like by comparison:

-Byshop

SSDs are all about the reads anyway. I believe to hit the sweet spot in SSD performance you really need to be at like 256GB though, so 128s are slower and 64s are slower still