Help: Placed in new SSD, very slow

i bought 2011 mac mini 2.5ghz 4 gb ram stock 500 gb hdd. running latest version of lion, 2 applications far: ccc , blackmagic disk speed test. booted , ran fine before putting in ssd, owc 120 gb mercury electra 6g ssd (just purchased, new). decided place ssd mini in addition stock hdd. opened mini, swapped out sata connector , moved hdd slot furthest fan (using sata connector ifixit mini dual drive kit. ssd placed in slot closest fan, using stock sata connector. installation ineventful, nothing broke, went nicely.

booted using stock hdd , able see ssd in there. formatted , cloned hdd ssd using ccc. able boot using ssd, boot time being equal stock hdd actually. now, have left original bootable copy of lion on hdd, start-up switched ssd in system preferences.

test speed of new ssd, using blackmagic, read speeds of 190 mb/s , write speeds of 140 mb/s. far cry owc advertised speeds , people on here have achieved faster speeds. think accurate reading? (i tried using aja kona, can never work me, on of macs. press start , button flashes stop, goes right start.) there else missing or defective ssd? lion boot copy on stock hdd interfering in way?

 

you can try this:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964

have understand, different benchmarking tools use different criteria benchmarks. don't know enough blackmagic, but, example, benchmark heavily based around incompressible data, sandforce 2200 drives not in (which owc drives based on). depends on if random reads , writes, opposed consecutive reads/writes have adverse affect on overall performance. may not getting sata3 connection (something may have gotten crimped when installing?).

here's real question @ hand, considerably faster mechanical hard drive? feel made significant difference? move along , happy. people caught in benchmarks, i.e "why guy score when got this", drives me nuts. never benchmark systems. confident in man-hood. if flying, there isn't reason caught in "oh god, i'm not getting x"....

frankly, drive out working anyway

 

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