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I got a Corsair Force GS 128GB, and popped it into the "dock" integral to the case. It's a SATA connector going to one of the motherboard headers, like any other internal drive.
After initial trying, I rebooted Windows 7 x64 with the disk still plugged in, so it's running like any internal drive for sure, not in a special swap media mode or anything caused by plugging in later.
The thing is that benchmark/test programs run extremely slow! I tried H2testw which I use to test flash USB sticks and cards: started writing at 800kB/s. A "quick/speed" test on HDDScan showed 1.1MB/s.
Oddly, a simple test of copying an 11GB file to it ran at the expected speed: limited by the read speed of the source drive, approximately.
Any idea what could be happening here? I acquired this SDD to replace my existing (full) C: drive, which is an SDD from several years ago.
H2testw is just for verifying drive capacities are true, and detecting errors, not benchmarking; for speed tests try CrystalDiskMark instead. – Robin Hood – 2014-10-30T02:04:56.510