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Gman

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Recently noticed that opening things in windows is feeling less snappy, even though I did a full reinstall in December. here's some bench mark images





Not sure if these are good or not. The drive is a Samsung 830 series 240gb.

anyone know if these are good / bad . Anything I can check to see if somethhing effecting performance
 
The motherboard is a Sabertooth x58

Just checked and ahci is enabled and that ssd is connected to the 6gb port.

Guess its just getting on a bit.
 
Gman said:
The motherboard is a Sabertooth x58

Just checked and ahci is enabled and that ssd is connected to the 6gb port.

Guess its just getting on a bit.
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that is your issue, the X58 boards have a marvell controller which is terrible! its not true sata 3 speeds.

I have a X58 board and I get the same speeds if I use the sata 3 ports. the ports are unreliable.

google the controller and x58 boards and you will see loads of people with the same issue as I did when I first got my SSD.

I use the Intel controllers and get 280mb read and write
 
As above the sata ports use a marvel controller which aren't very good.

Using the intel 3Gbps ports will probably feel more snappy. Using an ssd for an os drive rarely needs more than 300MB/s.

Think of the marvel controller as super high bandwidth fibre internet with horrible lag whereas the intel controller is low bandwidth copper internet with flawless latency.
 
right thanks guys.

When you mean use Intel controllers, are you saying I need to get a pci card that uses the intel controls ?
 
Gman said:
right thanks guys.

When you mean use Intel controllers, are you saying I need to get a pci card that uses the intel controls ?
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use the sata 2 ports and not sata 3, sata 3 use the marvel controller, sata 2 use intel
 
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The biggest difference I saw moving from hdd to ssd recently was boot times and the quiet operation. Applications do load quicker of course but windows 7 itself doesn't feel massively snappier than on my old hdd to be honest. Maybe its because I kept it free of bloat/defragged or stuff was just being cached in the ram. Even on my 850 evo, icons or windows menus etc can sometimes take a split second to pop into view which is nitpicking but it bugs the hell out of me. Is windows 10 better at that sort of thing?
 
Since you have AHCI on and a Sata 6Gb port, have you tried installing Intel RST? In benchmarks it did boost speeds, particularly the Random Read and Write (IOPS) scores on my system.
 
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Gman said:
just changed it to one of the sata 2 connectors and got this



seems worse :(
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Well that's a sequential benchmark. It's going to be worse on a native sata 2 port. Run an AS-SSD benchmark and pay attention to 4K and Acc Time.

But in general benchmarks give very little insight in how snappy and fast a system feels to use. Similarities are correlation rather than causality.

I'd also recommend having a look through to see if you have randomly acquired random junk on your system.
 
the marvell controllers go through a to small a pipe, and it adds some extra latency too, so yeah, sadly the intel onboard sata 2 is slightly better.

you could check if any programs are eating your ram too
 
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