Horrible SSD write speeds... not sure how to fix this :(

[k1114]

The drive is a SV100S264G that I've had for less than a year. It's been run under Win 7 64 bit the whole time, and it's always been a bit slow, but about a month ago it started to get REALLY bad; stuttering and freezing all the time. I've seen a lot of people complaining about "bad" write speeds that are over 100mb/s. THIS is a bad write speed result:

edit: No screenshot, but SSDLife guesses 65% life left

* TRIM support is on
* ACHI is on
* All drivers are up to date
* APM setting is fine
* Roughly the same results with and without write caching on
* Checked alignment; no problem there

What should I check next? I'm lost.

 

[Coup27]

How much of a job is it to SE and start again?

 

[k1114]

How much of a job is it to SE and start again?

I run storage server 08 in the rack upstairs so I have full drive backups; can reimage in about 30 minutes from it

edit: f it, I'm gonna do that

 

[Coup27]

If the image was taken long before it went tits up, then go for it.

 

[groberts101]

Secure erase is the key to make sure the drive is completely fresh again. And a nice clean image never hurts either.

 

[k1114]

I'm just now getting around to doing the reimage right now (about 20 minutes left) using a recent image, and if that is still slow, i'll manually backup all my important files and image fresh to see if it improves.

 

[k1114]

So something was wrong with my image; I restored and had the same problem. Installed win7 on my storage drives and wiped the SSD clean again, and here's what it gets:

Gonna reinstall win7 on it fresh tonight.

 

[groberts101]

no.. actually it's likely the other way around there. If you "restored and had the same problem"?.. that indicates that the SSD is low on fresh block reserves and is showing degraded performance(due to read/write/modify) as a result.

SE will take care of that completely. If you would have SE'd and THEN restored that image?.. you would have eliminated the drives current fresh block reserve state as the culprit and could look directly at the image itself.

Although it is possibly a driver related issue or some other conflict going on there.

Simplest test is this. Boot to another OS volume and test that SSD as a spare. Then SE and retest as spare once more. That will spell it out clearly. Good luck with it all

 

[k1114]

I did SE before the reimage

 

[sm625]

I did SE before the reimage

Well that is strange...

 

[UFCwhore]

SSD has to be aligned after cloning.

See below for more info:
http://www.howtogeek.com/97242/how-to-migrate-windows-7-to-a-solid-state-drive/
and scroll down to:Aligning The Sectors on Your SSD
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or
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...-gt-SSD-*with-alignment*-quickly-with-GParted

Hope it clears things up. :biggrin:

 

[sub.mesa]

The SV100S264G appears to be powered by a low-end controller chip: the JMicron JMF616. This must be one of the lowest quality SSDs available. The random I/O benchmarks are very low, performance degradation can be very high, there probably is abysmal protection against corruption and more of these kind of issues.

So I would never recommend buying one. But now that you have one, you can continue to use it for light systems. Just do not make the same mistake again and buy a quality SSD in the future for a little bit more money. This will buy you much more quality and is very much worth the extra pocket change.

 

[KingFatty]

Was the drive nearly completely full with little free space?

The original bad write performance was so bad that I think it's beyond explanation if you only consider the type of controller chip alone - surely the performance indicated something was very wrong, not just that it's a low performance SSD?

Please let us know your progress and if you can figure out what it might have been to get such low performance.

 

[rsutoratosu]

That drive's specs are

Sustained Sequential Read
up to 250MB/s
Sustained Sequential Write
up to 145MB/s


You're pretty close to it

 

[tweakboy]

SSD has to be aligned after cloning.

See below for more info:
http://www.howtogeek.com/97242/how-to-migrate-windows-7-to-a-solid-state-drive/
and scroll down to:Aligning The Sectors on Your SSD
-
or
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...-gt-SSD-*with-alignment*-quickly-with-GParted

Hope it clears things up. :biggrin:

NOPE! You dont have to do jack, maybe depends on the vendor. I know I can slap on a re image from external to SSD and booting off I go. No aligning bs. plus I use 512k sector size haha, which gives me 550mbps heheh.

 

[k1114]

I guess i'll do a follow-up since this thread got revived somehow. The drive continued to exhibit similar problems shortly after a fresh re-image. Did a RMA and the new drive was just fine.