Kingston SSD - broken??

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ROfu

ROfu

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Hey folks, I bought the Kingston SSD, after successfully installing it in a friends computer and seeing just how much nicer windows is when its "SSD" responsive.

I bought the laptop kit for my laptop, as the HDD is by far the biggest bottleneck in the system. (Dell 1330 XPS - 2.2ghz Core2, 4gb Ram, 8400GS).
I installed the Windows7 RC a while back and everything was running great, snappy and flawless, I have since reinstalled windows to the RTM, (so i can just change the key when my order arrives, rather than a clean install) But i have had no end of issues, the Initial Install took just over 2hours (unlike the RC which took under 40min), Its not the DVD media, as the same disk installed quickly on my other machine. And since this install i have had no end of issues within windows. eventually leading to the machine to slowdown so much, it was unusable. I am currently reinstalling Windows AGAIN and its installing once again at a snails pace.

Do you folks think the drives dieing? How likely is this considering its under a month old?

Any suggestions.. insight would be much appreciated.

Cheers
RO
 
I guess so, i could put it in the bundled caddy i guess and see how well it works outside of the laptop :)

Will try that tomorrow evening - nice suggestion :)

Cheers
RO
 
Okay tried it in an external drive - tried to copy a 2gb file for sequential write test and started fine 60m/s, evened out to about 35mb/s (as its a usb2 caddy) then after about a gb of file transfer it bombed down to 600k-1mb/s and stayed there .. also when canceling the copy it took about 10min to respond..

Any suggestions?
Or duff drive?

Cheers
Tim
 
Sound like a duff one to me. Is it possible to do a manufacturers check on it? Download software from makers website and check it with the software? I know you can do that with Mechanical Hard Drives.
 
I couldn't spot any software for SSD drive checks on the site, i thought about that before. I have sent a message to thier tech support as well though.

Kinda strange that it was fine for nearly a month... Considering they arent mechanical drives - no moving parts etc.. sounds like it must be a pretty serious defect to cause so much issues.

Appreciate the suggestions mate - guess ill see what the tech support folks say

Cheers
RO
 
Sounds to me like the drive has read/write degradation and needs Wiper and Garbage Collection. Does Kingston provide these tools for their SSDs?
 
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I've not spotted them, and depredation this quickly? sounds like a pretty serious flaw if thats the case - i understand the SSD tech but going from Raid like speeds to floppy drive speeds sounds a little harsh ;)

Cheers
RO
 
In both cases try checking the BIOS and seeing if there is an option to change the hard disk controller from IDE mode to AHCI and see if that sorts it. Mine worked fine as IDE, but appears much quicker with AHCI.

If this doesn't help then I'd contact the seller and arrange an RMA.
 
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