Terrible SSD performance

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redarrow

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So I bought my first SSD, a Transcend SSD370 256GB.
I have just gotten it setup, dual booting Windows 8 and Linux (Debian), both systems where clean installs. The performance is horribly slow though.. :(
A simple copy/paste test with a ~2GB file slows right down to something like 5MB/s, furthermore on Windows the whole system constantly locks up whenever theres heavy disk activity.

Could I be missing something simple? Or do you get such things as dud SSD's that do this?
My motherboard is an MSI Z87-G43 btw..


Thanks.
 
Your test you did, you copied from where to where? Still, that doesn't seem right. I have heard of systems that the SSD doesn't make a big difference because of permanently mounted external drives or slow IDE/SATA drives bringing the overall clock down.....but 5mb/s is bad.
 
Seems more like a 'Can't scend'.:erm:
I'm sure its a setting you have missed, or else your other hardware is at fault. If you could try a friends SSD that might help with debugging the issue.
 
beans100 said:
Your test you did, you copied from where to where? Still, that doesn't seem right. I have heard of systems that the SSD doesn't make a big difference because of permanently mounted external drives or slow IDE/SATA drives bringing the overall clock down.....but 5mb/s is bad.
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Well I tried copying from my HDD to the SSD, I also tried just making a copy of a file on the SSD itself - I actually tried this without the HDD even being connected..

Electric said:
Odd.

PE WUG?

Access in Walmer?
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No idea tbh, actually been quite a long time since I was actively involved in the WUG, but I think at least some parts of Walmer did have access..

Mr.Jax said:
Only thing I can think of is that the SATA mode isnt set to 'AHCI' ?
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It's on AHCI, was all along.. :/

biometrics said:
Replace the cable, change port.
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Well I haven't actually tried this, although I'm pretty sure the port is fine cos it's the same one I previously had my HDD in..
 
redarrow said:
Yea, I've tried about 3 different cables now, also tried 2 different ports, guess I could go ahead and try all 6..
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Try it in another PC to eliminate your PC as an issue but starting to sound like a dud. It happens ...
 
redarrow said:
The "Windows experience index" rates my SSD a 4.6 .. my old HDD used to get 5.5.. :mad:
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Mines 5.9 - didn't think I had an issue as everything is nippy :/

EDIT : Ok, I see his issue

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I'm actually suspecting that possibly something is wrong with my MB now.
When I plug the SSD into my external USB drive bay I can read/write from/to it at ~40MB/s which seems about normal for USB2..

Also, I discovered I didn't have quite the latest BIOS update installed, after updating it my system doesn't detect the SSD at all anymore. :/
 
Do a restore defaults in your BIOS and then configure the SSD port to AHCI again, to see if it may detect it again...
 
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