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Apps taking forever to load on Samsung 840 pro?

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m.alkhalel

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Hi,
I've just upgraded my old acer lappy to the new v3 and installed my samsung 840 256 pro in the new laptop. I formatted the SSD from within windows intaller and made a clean install.
After I was done I realized that the everything was "slow" so I installed Samsung magician and made OS and performance tweaking and then ran the benchmark. It showed only 200 mb/s so I installed Intel's drivers instead of Microsoft's and it's now back to around 530 mb/s.
However the whole system is still very "slow" (boot times, apps loading & control panel takes up to 10 sec to open!)

So what could be wrong?

Windows 8 pro 64bit
i7 3630QM
Nvidia 640M
8 gb ram
Samsung 840 pro 256 gb + 750gb HDD (hdd caddy)
 
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Run the AS-SSD benchmark program and it will report the access time for your setup. This will allow us to see if the access time is normal for an SSD setup or whether there is an underlining issue. It will also report normal benchmarks which will assist in fault finding too.
 
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Mfusick said:
Link to program would be helpful
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what program?
If you're referring to benchmark program it's called AS-SSD.
And if you want to know what programs are taking forever to open: Photoshop cs6, Microsoft word office, control panel.
PS all of those used to fly on my old Acer with the same ssd.
 
Well, your AS-SSD looks okay. 4KQD1 is low for that SSD, but it is probably normal for a laptop with power saving features (and it is not low enough to worry about, just not as fast as the 840 Pro is capable of).

Since your SSD seems to behaving well, I think you need to look at other causes for your problems. Probably something Windows 8 related. I can't help you with that.
 
Piotrsama said:
It's connected to a SATA3 port?
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With a sequential read speed of 509MB/s, what do you think?

OP - I concur with JWilliams4200 that nothing looks bad for your setup and is inline with what to expect with your laptop. I also think the problem is related to Windows or something unique to your laptops hardware. I would advise a fresh install and install things one by one with a reboot in between to see if a particular driver, update or program you use is causing the freezes.
 
After a fresh install the wtf-this-is-fast speed is back!

Update:
it seems the problem was atheros drivers...
 
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