SSD help please

[Buttkicker]

Hi guys
My OCZ Vertex has been working fine however in the last few weeks things have slowed down (way down)
and last week I installed windows 7 on it, and the hard drive is performing like a dog

Reads of around 45mb
writes around 22mb

I bought this drive from OCUK when they first came out and have had no issues (till now) its obviously still under warranty and it still has the original firmware that it came with (the very first one) although I am not sure what it is (firmware version) as I type this!!!

presumably some one will suggest updating the firmware which I will be honest and say I am not happy doing this as its abit above my head flashing firmware to hard drives etc

so can anyone point me as to what the problem is with this drive.. obviously pretty unhappy with reads/writes like I am getting

must add I am not having any problems with it - just the pathetic read writes
Chris

 

[Buttkicker]

How much space is left on the hard drive? You are ment to leave space left on the hard drive, as when you fill up the memory in the chips, after that, it starts to become "dirty memory". Use somthing called "whiper" that defrags the ssd etc.

37gb left so I dont think the answer lies there!!

will have a go with that wiper.exe - I have never heard of that program so will download and see what it is
thanks

 

[Buttkicker]

Oh Dear
Have you tried the manual GC (Garbage collection tool) also look at storage controler (Intel etc), I would say check out OCZ forums but my first hand experance found them to be VERY rude and they don't like been told the truth, (A Controlled Forum).

Please enlighten me as to what the 'Garbage collection tool' is??

not done anything about this slow hard drive as of yet but something has got to be done

I checked out the link regarding that Wiper.exe but got nowhere fast
downloaded the file and tried running it but all I got/get is a little black DOS type window that asks Y/N niether of which does anything so really have not got a clue what that program should or is supposed to do

all I know is the hard drive is benchmarking slower than my 5 yr old 80gb 5400RPM drive

so this problem wants sorting should I send it back to OCUK where I bought it because as things stand it is not worth tuppence
Chris

 

[Buttkicker]

The GC tool is Wiper.

Run Wiper.exe as an administrator and it should work then. It should then detect your SSD and will take several minutes to run, you should the %age complete in the Command Prompt.

Tried running it in any fashion but I must be missing some basic point here???

what does this program actually do... Its alright me running programs I have never heard of or having no clue as to what it is
thanks
Chris

 

[Buttkicker]

So will the files be dirty on a new clean install such as this??

 

[Buttkicker]

This wiper.exe program does not want to work from the link
it opens a dos window and prompts Y/N then tells me cannot run because the CD tray might be open it then proceeds to go through my drives failing on all saying the problem you are having is that wiper needs the SSD drive to have a minimum size of 137gb

my Vertex is 60gb!!!

there is a hotfix at Microsoft Blah Blah Blah
then it makes the program hang
so I wont be continuing with this program...

at the end of the day I really think I have got past the stage of trying endless hotfixes etc just to try get the damned thing working faster than 5400rpm drive

should I contact OcUK or contact OCZ about this... after all this messing about I feel that its only 8 months old and something is obviously not working as it should

Chris