My SSD slowing down?

[Dave3000]

About 1 month ago I bought a Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB SSD. Lately the Windows 7 desktop icons are blank for a couple of seconds and then slowly show the icon pictures over the course of 3 seconds. I read that SSDs slow down when they are almost full and mine is almost full but that should only affect the write speeds, not the read speeds as I read and I assume that it is purely read speeds I'm dealing with when Windows loads, especially loading the icons on the desktop. I only have 25 GB of free space on my SSD out of the total 238 GB capacity and I try to leave no less than 10% of free space on my SSD. Crystal Diskmark shows about 39 MB/s for the random 4k read and 122 MB/s for the random 4k write. So do I have too much data on my SSD for it to perform optimally?

 

[rgallant]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2300067
-use this if you haven't used it.
-what system spec's?

 

[Dave3000]

I have been using that software to disable superfetch and auto defrag on my SSD. Those tweaks didn't make a difference. I think that some service that is loading in the background is causing the icons to blank out for a few seconds. The icons show there images then a few seconds later most of them blank out for a few seconds. Or maybe I just have too much data on my SSD?

 

[Dave3000]

I just moved some installed games with Steam Mover to my 1TB hard drive and ran Performance Optimization in SM. Now I have 49 GB free on my SSD and it still has the desktop icon blankout issue about 5 seconds after Windows is done loading. I don't think that it was because my SSD was almost full, it's maybe some service in the background that loads up.

 

[Elixer]

Are you getting any warnings/errors in event log ?

 

[corkyg]

The busines of SSD free space has been discussed for at least 2 years in AT. I belong to the Old Hippie club - 20% is great.

My analogy is that of asmall boat in a bay. When the water is calm, you can cruise reasonably fast with little freeboard. But, when it gets rough, eithert you need more freeboard or go slower to keep from swamping.

 

[Charlie98]

I just cloned my old SSD over to my 840Pro 256GB and am experiencing problems similar to yours... slow loading of folder contents and pages using IE. ...don't have a solution for it yet.

 

[mrmr56]

I have noticed the same thing but I haven't put much thought into it. I have 40gb used out of 120gb so free space isn't the issue. I am now wondering if a MS update is the culprit. I don't really remember when this started as I rarely shut the pc off.

 

[fuzzymath10]

FWIW, I had more problems with a cloned/imaged SSD than installing from scratch. In fact, my old X25-M got pretty messed up after the backup was restored onto it, i.e. drive light got stuck, took forever to detect, etc. Then I managed to secure erase it, and it's been fine working 24/7 for a year or so.