Why is SSD so slow on Satellite A300 PSAG8E

Guys hi,
Please help me on the following question. I would like an admin to help me plz, or a very experienced user, if this is possible.
2 weeks ago I bought an Satellite A300 PSAG8E. A couple of months ago before the purchase of this laptop, I had also bought an SSD OCZ 64 GB v2 core series drive. I tried several times to install the SSD on the laptop, but the response during windows installation and after during the use, the response of the drive is very, very slow. It is even slower than it is with its original 250 GB disk. I benchmarked the SSD with SISOFT SANDRA and confirmed my impression.
The SSD was rated 5400 rpm, strangely the same speed as the original 250 GB HD that comes with the machine.
I used different windows CD's (one with SP3, and one older version with SP2, both original windows) but nothing changed. I then installed my SSD on my desktop machine and the installation and use in windows environment, is blazingly fast. I put it back on the laptop and again it is very, very slow.
What is going on? Do you have any suggestions? Is there any bug with using SSD's on my model?
Is there any firmware upgrade?
I suspect this has something to do with Laptop's transfer rate. Can you help me please?
What can I do?
Kind Regards,
Dionisis Falireas

Dear Niko_1
thank you for your time, let me answer plz.
1) The SSD was rated by Sandra benchmarkng. I believe that what Sandra means is that according to its read and write measurements, the SDD is as fast as an 5400 drive. Which is not the case, because when i install it on my desktop is very very fast.
2) Imagine that while i had the ssd installed, i tried to copy 600mb (megabytes). The time it took was 16 minutes! Something is wrong.
3) Regarding what you said, about sata drivers. Which raid compatible driver should i install? I have browsed for days the internet, and i didnt see any forum saying that i should install raid drivers for the ssd. Probably you have a point, but shouldn't this be a common problem and everywhere on the internet, if this was teh case for an SSD to work?
4) Another point you may have is about the sata driver. You say that sp3 does not include sata drivers. Where can i find these sata drivers, to test it? because my original hard drive for toshiba, is SATA and as far as i know, winodws do recognize sata drivers. Can you clarify plz?

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