Computer running slowly

[Bawat]

For some strange reason my computer is running much slower than it used to.
CPU usage is almost consistently at 2%, 21% of 16Gb ram in use. 18Gb of space left on the Raid 0 SSDs and yet doing things on the computer is taking too long!

Drive is only 7% fragmented and AVAST doesn't detect any problems.

Running this

#include <iostream>

void main(){
	std::cout << "This is a test";
	std::cin.get();
}

Takes about 2 minuets to get an output! What is going on?

 

[linktoinsanity]

How long has it been running like this?

Any idea what changed to make it now run like this?

And being SSD, fragmentation should not make any difference. In fact if you have run the defragmentation program on them and then defragmented them it is quite possible that this caused the issue.

 

[Bawat]

Ohhh that could possibly be it... I saw it was 50% fragmented once and decided to fix that... Only the past few days really, computer starts off fine but then opening anything and doing anything progressively gets slower until a restart. I can't think of anything off the top of my head, I've only been playing games and recording them recently.

[Edit] I just realized that that can't be the cause since the computer being slow was what gave me the idea of fragmenting in the first place

 

[linktoinsanity]

What SSDs you got?

I personally don't bother running SSDs in RAID, maybe a new install of Windows will fix it? But before you take such drastic action of course, which Windows are you running? I'm guessing Windows 7, otherwise Windows 8 would not let you defragment the SSD, it would have given you an optimizer...

 

[Bawat]

I am using Windows 7 Home Premium and have my OS installed on two "Samsung 830 Series 64GB Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s 256MB 2.5 inch".

I have just bought two "Samsung SSD 840 Series Basic 2.5" - 120 GB (MZ-7TD120BW) " if I can use that to compare stuff on this computer