SSD Speed question

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Sup. So yesterday I got my hands on a SSD (Team_combo 64GB), been waiting to try one for a while. Now the thing is my machine is actually performing worse than when I didn't have a SSD. It pauses way too much while doing something, the installing of programs including updates take a hell of a lot longer now and the copy speed from my HDD to SDD maxes out at 25MB/s (much slower than HDD -> HDD). Even the boot times sucks :(.Could this be due to me missing a driver of some sort or some settings I need to enable/disable?
I have page file set to on as well as write caching off. I have downloaded the latest drivers for the southbridge (ICH10R).

My machine specs are: Q9300, DFI P45, 6GB 800Mhz, Team_combo 64GB and 1TB Hitachi HDD and Windows 7.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
 
My initial reaction is reload windows 7 and update it. After a bit of googling it seems you have got the stuttering hdd.

If you bought it new take it back, if you bought it second hand you have been ripped off sadly and i hope you can get your cash back.
 
I did do a fresh install in any case and updated to SP1. Bleh that sucks, lets see what I can do. Would an RMA be out of the question?
 
P3wP3w said:
I did do a fresh install in any case and updated to SP1. Bleh that sucks, lets see what I can do. Would an RMA be out of the question?
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No dude if you bought it new take it back and tell them you want your money back or the hdd replaced. If it still has warranty left they have to swap it out.
 
I would say to reinstall Windows on an ACHI setting if your board does have that setting.
and follow these guidelines:
http://superuser.com/questions/137817/best-ssd-tweaks-for-windows-7

Do not Expect Super Copy speeds and writes from that drive.
The Access time should be good as it is less than 0.2ms compare to 9.0ms of a Western Digital Caviar Blacks.
The Team one you have can not compete with something like the SF based SSD's.
 
GeOgre said:
I would say to reinstall Windows on an ACHI setting if your board does have that setting.
and follow these guidelines:
http://superuser.com/questions/137817/best-ssd-tweaks-for-windows-7

Do not Expect Super Copy speeds and writes from that drive.
The Access time should be good as it is less than 0.2ms compare to 9.0ms of a Western Digital Caviar Blacks.
The Team one you have can not compete with something like the SF based SSD's.
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This I know, its using the Jmicron controller, but the reads and writes should be better than the HDD not worse. I'll give those tweaks a look. ACHI is on in any case.
 
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Odd neither of my ssd's run achi and they work 100%, i tested with achi and made no difference but i guess it is worth a try, that jmicron controller is trouble i reckon.
 
killadoob said:
Odd neither of my ssd's run achi and they work 100%, i tested with achi and made no difference but i guess it is worth a try, that jmicron controller is trouble i reckon.
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That depends of the Drives you use.

ACHI mode is beter, for SSD's
I would recommend using the Intel controllers not anything else.
They are the quickest and most reliable.

Reads and writes SSD's claims are sequensial and 70MB/s write sequensial is crap TBO.
any 2TB and 1TB drive gives you beter write than that.
a Caviar Black 640GB drive can write at over 110MB/s
 
GeOgre is right that isn't a fast SSD and it doesn't have TRIM support so the performance of the drive will deteriorate over time.
Some OCZ and Intel SSD's get read and write speeds of 500MB/Sec or more and this TEAM SSD 140 - 170MB/Sec
 
I ran that SSD Tweaker program, things seem to be better. I don't know how accurate HD tune is with an SSD but I ran it anyways.

Read transfer rate
Transfer Rate Minimum : 131.4 MB/s
Transfer Rate Maximum : 163.1 MB/s
Transfer Rate Average : 153.9 MB/s
Access Time : 0.168 ms
Burst Rate : 199.6 MB/s
CPU Usage : 2.0%

Just the stuttering is a pain, need to play around more and see if that is gone or is better.
 
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