Going back to conventional hard drives...

[cogrady84]

I've been running 2x 64Gb Samsung SSD's (MMCRE64G5MPP-0VA) in RAID-0 since July and have recently started to notice performance degradation (stuttering, slowdowns). I believe these drives neither support firmware upgrades or TRIM, so probably a bad decision on my part.

I've opted to go back to conventional HDD's as I cannot afford the latest/greatest SSD's, I chose 2x Samsung F3 1Tb drives in RAID-0, (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-082-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1279).

Am I going to see a massive drop performance wise? Any suggestions on maybe getting (and keeping) the performance in my SSD's?

 

[cogrady84]

Any other comments?

 

[cogrady84]

I am feeling a little similar.

6 months ago I got a 64GB Kingston Value SSD. It's made a massage difference in load times, however at the time I noticed when writing large files my computer would stutter. To counter this I moved everything thats written (Firebox cache, Outlook) to HDD.

Recently i'm getting slow down problems - it's horrible there can be a 20 seconds wait where I can't even move a mouse pointer, I can only figure there is still some files being witten to the SSD and as drive is filling up it's getting worse.

I have 8GB ram in the machine so once applications are loaded there is no swap useage. I'm starting to wonder if HDD is not better, as lock up's are doing my head in. One of my HDD's is a Samsung 1.5 TB (cost < £80), it's used for data only, but to be honest i'd be happy booting of this, at least performance would be consistant.

I think SSD is great, but they need to sort the write delay issue before it can become mainstream.

The other issue I have is i'm on Xp64 - at some point i'm going to install Win7 64. Because my SSD drive is now 'used' will putting a new OS on degrade read performance also. I don't see any trim utilities on Kingston website.

I have very similar issues, not quite as long as 20 sec, but i have random lockups when watching movies every 15-20 minutes, playing games will just freeze for a few seconds... my machine isnt crammed full of crap I have no scheduled tasks running etc etc... annoys the hell outta me tbh, and i really CAN NOT be arsed erasing my HDD every few months to get the performance back... not to mention the limitations of my drives as they stand without firmware upgrades/TRIM... I see no other realistic solution.

I am fully aware i bought a "cheap" ssd, but does that mean to say I should have performance *problems* ?? yes its slower, yes its not the best on the market, but theres a difference between slow and stuttering.

 

[cogrady84]

Just as an update to this thread...

I'd like to say thanks for the sheer volume of replies/support given on this subject.

I see now that I am kinda stuck unless I want to make a sizeable investment into a top of the range SSD (which I cannot afford right now). I am much more tempted with the vast amounts of storage and comparable performance offered by the F3 looking at a Priceerformance ratio.

The drives are ordered and will be a christmas present as it turns out, so i'll be having an interesting day! Not sure what to do with these SSD's now, ebay ***? It's a shame I managed to pick precisely the wrong time to buy an SSD and also failed to realise that I should have made a bigger investment at the time, but issues like this hadn't really come to light.

Thanks again, it's nice to see such a well informed, professional community coming together to help with this, hopefully this thread will inform a lot of people on the Pros/Cons of this scenario.

 

[cogrady84]

Can anyone help me find an original spec sheet for my samsung 1st gen 64gb ssd? it seems they are unavailable in most online stores and samsung have given the same model number to the new gen drives, so have overwritten the original specification on their site (speeds etc...)

MMCRE64G5MPP-0VA is what is shown as the model in POST.

This is just to assist in the sale of the drives.