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Let down by my ssd

what SSD do you have, and what HDD are you coming from?
Also, did you do a fresh install, or a clone of the OS?
 
Well...care to explain why? Without details, kinda hard to help.

I haven't had a system that boots on HDD's for at least 2 years, and I've had overwhelmingly positive experiences with SSD's. The one bad experience was the first SSD I bought in '09 - OCZ Vertex, what a POS drive, died in 4 months. Have used Samsung, Intel and Crucial, and so far drives are still alive + fast.
 
Clean install would be better. Download and install AS SSD and post it up. Make sure trim is enabled.

"While using something like Intel's previously mentioned Toolbox application to TRIM your drive is extremely useful, you need to make sure Windows 7 has enabled it first. And, while Windows is designed to automatically detect most SSDs, sometimes it doesn't work as intended. If you find the performance of your SSD is degrading (or just want to make sure TRIM is properly enabled), run Command Prompt as an administrator and type:
fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify " You want it to return a 0.

http://lifehacker.com/5586733/how-to-take-full-advantage-of-your-solid+state-drive
 
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Don't you mean Seagate 600? I'm not even sure if you could get a 225 working in a current-day PC, but it's definitely not an SSD.

Anyway, find something you do that's normally drive-intensive, then rejoice 🙂.

Also, make sure your partition is aligned (AS-SSD is a vendor-independent program that tells you, along with its ability to benchmark), as that will probably have as much of an affect as TRIM, if not more (Seagate 600s have ~12% factory OP, which combined with the LAMD controller, make them great no-TRIM drives). Alignment was a much more minor performance killer a few years ago, but with basically everyone running new OSes that do it right from the start, I think they're not optimizing for 512b/misalignment, anymore.
 
Cerb said:
Don't you mean Seagate 600? I'm not even sure if you could get a 225 working in a current-day PC, but it's definitely not an SSD.

Anyway, find something you do that's normally drive-intensive, then rejoice 🙂.

Also, make sure your partition is aligned (AS-SSD is a vendor-independent program that tells you, along with its ability to benchmark), as that will probably have as much of an affect as TRIM, if not more (Seagate 600s have ~12% factory OP, which combined with the LAMD controller, make them great no-TRIM drives). Alignment was a much more minor performance killer a few years ago, but with basically everyone running new OSes that do it right from the start, I think they're not optimizing for 512b/misalignment, anymore.
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It's a seagate ssd with 225 gb space
 
SSD's are best used for OS drives, that is where their performance advantages will shine.

Most games are made to run off HDD's as that's what most people will still have so there won't be much of an improvement unless the game uses lots of small files.
 
Cerb said:
Also, make sure your partition is aligned (AS-SSD is a vendor-independent program that tells you, along with its ability to benchmark), as that will probably have as much of an affect as TRIM, if not more (Seagate 600s have ~12% factory OP, which combined with the LAMD controller, make them great no-TRIM drives). Alignment was a much more minor performance killer a few years ago, but with basically everyone running new OSes that do it right from the start, I think they're not optimizing for 512b/misalignment, anymore.
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This. Do as the man says, make sure it is aligned.
 
Naer said:
How does it compare to your old drive?
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I get slightly faster starts and writes compered to my 64GB 830 on my ib.

Seagate 600 gets 520/470 read writes old 830 got 536/317 read and writes.

I also did a clean install of win 7 professional so I could run more ram then my old win 7 premium which had a 16GB limit.
 
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I have a Samsung 840EVO, 250GB of space, and it's the best thing since sliced bread. Running The Sims 3 on it like a champ, and all my system runs like Usain Bolt. I could NOT be happier.
 
The 840EVO, 250GB is a far better drive but for $129 I took the ST240.
I keep a spare 840-128 with install kit just in case.
In 14 years I never had a system drive or partition larger then 64GB.
 
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