[UriB]

I bulit a cdmputer with SSD drive as a bootable drive and a HDD as data drive.  Both drives are SATA3 but somehow Windows 7 (ultimate 64bits) identify them as SCSI drives.  I tried to delete the drivers in "device manager" and reboot the system, but they are still identified as SCSI.  Any ides how to have Windows correctly id them as SATA?

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I've seen that too in Win64 (don't remember what kind of drive it was, think SATA) and WinXP with SATA DVD-drive. Probably, some Windows driver identification bug.

 

But the question is -- if it does work, why not leaving it as is? Did you test the speed? If it behaves like SSD on SATA, doesn't matter whatever Windows thinks about it -- I'd even love to see modern SSD identified like CD-rom or even a floppy:)

[Lemurian]

I've seen that too in Win64 (don't remember what kind of drive it was, think SATA) and WinXP with SATA DVD-drive. Probably, some Windows driver identification bug.

 

But the question is -- if it does work, why not leaving it as is? Did you test the speed? If it behaves like SSD on SATA, doesn't matter whatever Windows thinks about it -- I'd even love to see modern SSD identified like CD-rom or even a floppy:)

[UriB]

At first I left it be until I realized how slow it boots up.  I started to test various speeds and I found that the computer is really slow for what it suppoed to be.  That was when I started to look into the problem.  Right now everybody passes the ball.  Gigabye (Motherboard) to Sumsung (SSD) to Microsoft (Windows) and vice versa

[Lemurian]

Have you tried it on machines with different Windows version? I'd say the problem might be with mainboard SATA controller driver, try to find the chip's name and look for latest driver at manufacturer's site. Don't think the problem is with the drive -- it's either mb or Windows