SSD - Does this look about right? Feels slow.

jamed2017

jamed2017

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Hi Guys,

I finally I got my SSD installed and configured. I have to say considering the hype around SSDs i've not been that impressed so far. It seems to be taking a long time to boot windows and shut down. I've done all the windows optimization the internet suggests. I.e reducing paging file .etc

Do these cdm scores look about right? Its an OCZ vertex 4 on v1.5 ?

I've also included my hdd setup and a windows score. :lol:

Just to put it into perspective my laptops only a bit slower, and that has a 5200rpm hitachi in.

http://thewtech.co.uk/solid state hdd config.png


Sorry forgot to jpeg it!


Jim
 
Clean Install with the SSD on its own and then slowly built it up. Do you keep your temp files on a hdd or do you leave on them the ssd?
 
Slight improvement. I'm getting funny noises from the new caviar black drive on shutdown, sounds like its spinning up and slowing down. Does it a few times before it switches the rig off. Any ideas on what that could be?
 
Finally getting somewhere ...ish.

I removed all the other drives and booted just of the ssd. Absoloutley fine.

Reconnected the other drives and it took about 2 minutes at the windows boot.


The mobo i'm using is a crosshair iv extreme. I've got ports set to sata iii. I'am however running 2x SATA III drives and 3x SATA II drives of those ports.

Could this be a controller issue?
 
I had an issue similar to yours when I had my SSD and my HDD connected at the same time. I discovered that my HDD was dying when I disconnected it and booted up with just the SSD just fine. It might be an idea to scan the HDD for bad sectors.
 
Did you set the ssd up with AHCI and not IDE?
Does the hard drive have a bootable partition on it?
Those numbers look about right for the Agilities, this is mine here (a slower version than yours)

Windows scores cap at 7.9 and Regular Hard drives don't score 7.9 to my knowledge so that's fine it looks like your cpu and memory are what's lowered the score.

Is the drive on the correct Sata port? using a sata 3 cable etc... ?

As for optimization, get rid of your hyberfile (google) prevent sleep, stop drives from sleeping, make sure TRIM is on, make sure degrag is off, disable indexing and superfetch and reduce your page file to 1024 min, 2048 max, ignore the recommended bit at the bottom.

I read that if you leave your windows install alone for a while the drive will start doing tidy up routines. so perhaps leave it on overnight to let it do this?

Hope this helps, I noticed a big change in boot and load times when i moved to SSD's and although I now hear these OCZ ones are pants, I've not had a problem with any of my 3 (yet *touch wood*).

I'll be moving to either Kingston HyperX or a ForceGT Soon, just for peace of mind... then bung one of my SSD's in my ps3 for a piss take :)

Edit: Just seen how many partitions you have on those drives!!!! Why so many?
 

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The score of 7.9 for the drive is as high at it will go
That would show it's ok imo
You could try benching it for actual read/write figures

Have you enable ahci in the bios ?
 
ACHI -yes
Sata 3, sata 3 cables -yes
Hyberfile gone , trim is on, defrag is off, superfetch is off, page file 1024.
I disabled the other drives from the boot list, its sped the bios up a bit but the windows load isnt to impressive still.

The partition set up is a funny one. I do a lot of lighting rendering for work so I have a couple of dedicated partiotion for that. Music, film, iso's have there own. Programs and games get installed on one. The 'Sam' drive thats in there is being replaced with the 'Black' drive but it will sit in the rig untill it completely gives up on life. The scorpio is going into my laptop and the hitachi thats in the laptop will end up sat in this rig. :crazy:


Going to give it a few days and see it if it improves. Will keep you all posted.
 
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Okay, well i hope it does matey. Good luck, it sounds like you've taken all the necessary steps.

Oo one more, did you install your motherboard's controller drivers?
 
uncheck - allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addion to file properties

plus there are a cople of services that can be disabled to expedite speed. but for
boot that is all POST, BIOS and OS load features. if not using USB 3.0, disable in BIOS
and retest load speed.
there are mult proceesor boot functions in MSCONFIG.
MSCONFIG -> Boot Tab -> Advanced Options -> Check Number of Processors and correct
number of cores (default is 1).

airdeano
 
Undertoker said:
The score of 7.9 for the drive is as high at it will go
That would show it's ok imo
You could try benching it for actual read/write figures

Have you enable ahci in the bios ?
Click to expand...

Just to let you know 7.9 is the HIGHEST that the windows benchmark will show as of right now. Anything higher is locked for future hardware and a better score system... I think its kinda dumb, but that's the best you will get out of that benchmark... Hopefully they will unlock it in the near future.
 
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