Dell D430 SSD not recognized

Hello Master_Andus,

I guess you are referring to a Latitude D430. If not, please help me with exact system model. 

Latitude D430 had two options for the hard drives. PATA hard drive and SSD (SATA). The SSD drive comes in a 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch form factor. The 1.8-inch drive has a PATA interface but comes with an adapter that allows it to connect to a SATA controller. The 2.5-inch drive uses a standard SATA connection as with other drives of this size. Hence I would request you to ensure if the you have got the adapter that allows the 1.8" 32GB PATA ZIF SSD to connect to a SATA controller. This might be the reason why the drive is not getting detected on your computer. You may also get 2.5" SSDs which would not require any adapters and would work just fine. 

For more details, see Hard Drive - Internal for your Dell Latitude D430. 

Hope this helps! 

Hello Master_Andus,

Thank you for the update and I am really glad that the issue got fixed. Please do write back to us if you need any further assistance.

Hello!

As i promised, i'm back with benchmark scores, because i couldn't find any benchscores for this device.

Kingfast S1 Series KF1804MCS 32GB ATTO score:

And the AS SSD benchmark score:

The read speed is fair, but the write is quite low, below half of the specified by the manufacturer.

I made a real-life measurement too, i copied my C:\Dell\ Drivers folder (250MB of small files) to another location on C:, just to see how fast is this SSD when reading and writing at the same time. So, the copying of the 250MB data took 4 minutes and 09 seconds, which is approx. 1MB/s.

The copying of 168MB of data (my Portable Firefox folder) from the ramdisk to a folder in C: took 54.8 seconds, which is equivalent to 3.05MB/s.

Copying a single large file of 374MB from a folder in C: to another folder in C: took 15.4 seconds , equivalent to 24.28 MB/s.

The same large file copied from the same folder to the ramdisk took 31 secs, which means 12MBps. Copying back the file from ramdisk to the drive gives the same result. I cannot explain why is this slow. Theoretically copying from and to the RAM should be lightning fast (the max read and write speed given by the benchmarks).

For comparison, the Samsung HS082HB i had in this laptop, has the following speeds according to the HD Tune results found here:

Read minimum: 11.6 MB/s

Read average: 29.5 MB/s

Read max.: 36.5 MB/s

Acces time: 19.9 ms

  My system is a Win7/64, newly installed on this D430, with properly aligned partitions. The factory specified maximums are 80/40 MBps read/write for this SSD.

I recommend the use of a ramdrive with the swapfile and the Temp folder, as well as the browser cache in it for less drive acces and much smoother program running (especially the browsers with many tabs open).

I hope this test will be of good use to people not sure if one wants to keep the good old HDD or change to a new SSD.

Hello Master_Andus,

I would like to thank you for your co-operation with us and sharing the resolution steps with us which would help other users facing the same problem.