SSD is not recognized?

I just plugged in SATA and power cable on a brand new SANDISK 240GB SSD as a additional drive (for data transfer). However, it doesn't show under my computer as a driver. Do I have to do some extra steps let windows 7 recognize this SSD?

Thank you.

** additional info. It shows at device manager - disk drives though.

You have to format it first.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-u...-partition

you need to open the disk manager; format it and assign drive letter

Thanks. Finally got it work, formatting and using a migration tool. The alignment is perfect. It is SAn Disk Extreme SSD 240G. The benchmark test result is below. Is it good or not really?

Quote from slimwantsfat : Thanks. Finally got it work, formatting and using a migration tool. The alignment is perfect. It is SAn Disk Extreme SSD 240G. The benchmark test result is below. Is it good or not really?

Are you are running SATA II or III and are you in AHCI mode?

Quote from brbubba : Are you are running SATA II or III and are you in AHCI mode?

SATA II and I am in AHCI mode. Was the result bad? I don't have SATA III ports on DELL XPS9100's MoBo. Is there any SATA III controller I can purchase in decent price?

Quote from slimwantsfat : SATA II and I am in AHCI mode. Was the result bad? I don't have SATA III ports on DELL XPS9100's MoBo. Is there any SATA III controller I can purchase in decent price?

I'd say they were good for SATA II. That's why I asked because you would have been under for SATA III, by a good margin.

I don't think a controller card is really worth it IMO. You would need at least a pci express x4 card to even see the speeds that SATA III can do. An x1 card would be no better than what you already have. Also sequential read/write speeds aren't really where you get system snappiness anyway.

I would just wait until you do a system upgrade and then your drive will be SATA 3 ready.

Quote from brbubba : I'd say they were good for SATA II. That's why I asked because you would have been under for SATA III, by a good margin. I don't think a controller card is really worth it IMO. You would need at least a pci express x4 card to even see the speeds that SATA III can do. An x1 card would be no better than what you already have. Also sequential read/write speeds aren't really where you get system snappiness anyway. I would just wait until you do a system upgrade and then your drive will be SATA 3 ready.

Good to know. Thank you. My motherboard has the following expansion slots available. x16 is taken by a 4850. I guess I could use that PCle x8 slot for SATA 3 ports as the mobo doesn't support cross-fire feature. What do you think? Any recommendations based on this?

PCI: 1 slot
PCIe x1: 3 slots
PCIe x8: 1 slot
PCIe x16 (Graphics): 1 slot