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First, system spec:
I7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ)
Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58
OCZ Technology 12GB 1600 MHz DDR3 SDRAM (OCZ3G1600LV6GK)
1x 256gb Samsung 830 SSD
2x 640gb WD Caviar Black HDDs
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560Ti OC 1024MB GDDR5
Cooler Master Cosmos S Full tower case
Titan TTC-NK85TZ Fenrir air cooler
Corsair 620w HX modular PSU
Hello all,
Got me a Samsung 830 256gb drive a few days ago, upgraded from 2x640gb WD Caviar Blacks, one of which is now my Steam and page file drive and the other is just general stuff.
After installing the new drive I set up the bios to AHCI and started with a fresh install of Windows 7 home premium.
All well and good, install went fine, let it update, installed antiviruses, optimized with the Magic SSD program it comes with and so on.
The problem is it is stupidly slow at some things, I am not sure if its bipolar or not, but it acts it. It boots up and shuts down like a bullet stuck in the rear end of a bat out of hell, literally up and running in less than a minute normally.
But when it comes to things like opening an MP3 or an image, it takes ages. That green bar you get going across the folder address, like you get if you do a file search, I get that on opening any file, often more than once in the same folder.
I really don't know what to do with the thing, it can be fast, its boot times prove it, it just wont be fast (cause it's a git).
I have run the AS SSD Benchmark and got this:
http://i.imgur.com/Tabut.jpg
This is slow right? I never had to wait for MP3s before now.
I have tried to do some research on this and fix it, I made sure to use the blue SATA ports (which I read are intel controlled). Magic SSD says the drive has the latest firmware. I know this is a 3gb/s system and not 6gb/s, but this really isn't right.
Is there something I can do to try and fix this or is there likely something wrong with the drive?
Open (and grateful) to all advice
Regards
The_Mad_Hatter
I7 920 D0 Stepping (SLBEJ)
Gigabyte EX58-UD5 Intel X58
OCZ Technology 12GB 1600 MHz DDR3 SDRAM (OCZ3G1600LV6GK)
1x 256gb Samsung 830 SSD
2x 640gb WD Caviar Black HDDs
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560Ti OC 1024MB GDDR5
Cooler Master Cosmos S Full tower case
Titan TTC-NK85TZ Fenrir air cooler
Corsair 620w HX modular PSU
Hello all,
Got me a Samsung 830 256gb drive a few days ago, upgraded from 2x640gb WD Caviar Blacks, one of which is now my Steam and page file drive and the other is just general stuff.
After installing the new drive I set up the bios to AHCI and started with a fresh install of Windows 7 home premium.
All well and good, install went fine, let it update, installed antiviruses, optimized with the Magic SSD program it comes with and so on.
The problem is it is stupidly slow at some things, I am not sure if its bipolar or not, but it acts it. It boots up and shuts down like a bullet stuck in the rear end of a bat out of hell, literally up and running in less than a minute normally.
But when it comes to things like opening an MP3 or an image, it takes ages. That green bar you get going across the folder address, like you get if you do a file search, I get that on opening any file, often more than once in the same folder.
I really don't know what to do with the thing, it can be fast, its boot times prove it, it just wont be fast (cause it's a git).
I have run the AS SSD Benchmark and got this:
http://i.imgur.com/Tabut.jpg
This is slow right? I never had to wait for MP3s before now.
I have tried to do some research on this and fix it, I made sure to use the blue SATA ports (which I read are intel controlled). Magic SSD says the drive has the latest firmware. I know this is a 3gb/s system and not 6gb/s, but this really isn't right.
Is there something I can do to try and fix this or is there likely something wrong with the drive?
Open (and grateful) to all advice
Regards
The_Mad_Hatter