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Oh dear has my new SSD got problems

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iknowalittle

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I know my SSD is only running on a sata 2 m/b so performance will be affected but as you can see from the second screen shot performance has plummeted.

Any ideas what the problem may be

When SSD first fitted
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I've been trying believe me .........computer is like being on 56kb dial up. Web page has been loading all this time. I'm replying on iPhone and will post later when I can
 
So, SATA 2 motheboard and you're asking what's wrong with performance? It's a SATA 3 drive, so it's pretty much at it's limit right there. Nothing too out of the ordinary. If you are referring to the IOPS, you have a bottleneck somewhere...list out your specs.
 
You should figure out what wrote 50 GB to that drive in three days without increasing the total used space. Something is thrashing that drive and probably interfering with your attempts to benchmark it, or else you're just running too many benchmarks and not giving the SLC cache any time to recover.
 
I've run SATA 3 SSDs on SATA 2 motherboards for years and years with no issues, and decent performance. So that's definitely not the problem. As @Billy Tallis said, 50GB of writes in three days without using more space is a lot. Figure out what's doing that, and kill it. Ought to fix things.
 
Also, is this a laptop? Performance of storage may be different, depending on whether you are plugged into AC, or running on battery.
 
Your "now" image doesn't look too bad - if the drive is busy, you have background tasks running, etc.

Given that you're complaining about slow internet behavior too (which isn't usually a storage problem) my guess is you've got something else going on and your SSD is a victim here, not the culprit.

Pop open Resource Monitor and see what programs are up, running, using CPU, and generating disk I/O. I bet you have a torrent client stuck open in the background or something. Or maybe a virus scanner doing its thing.
 
Sorry for the delay in replying but internet had been down and is still playing up…..and many thanks for all the replies.


1). Yes It’s the huge drop in IOPS that I am referring to and I realise sata 2 will have an effect. My specs are :-

Asus P5W DH/Pentium D 940 3.20GHz/ATI Radeon HD 4770/2 x 2 Corsair PC2-600 (400MHz) old I know but it does the job for now.

With regard to the bottleneck I have not changed/added anything since the higher IOPS readings that I posted.


2) Yes what on earth has wrote 50 GB , I honestly have not moved any large data since installing the SSD.


3). Yes I’m in AHCi mode.


4). Desktop….huge Termatake Kandalf LCD case
 
Missed the above reply sorry. All we pages are now in perminant refresh mode so I am using my phone so please excuse errors.

Firefox keeps opening 3 new tabs ..... Plus FireFox has now crashed this web page 3 times.

I'm no techie so exactly what do i look for in Resource Monitor . As far as I know I do not use any torrent client, I gather you mean U torrent etc.

In RM Overview and CPU both say “searchUI.exe and SystemSettings.exe” are both suspended….is this normal. Otherwise it seems only Fireox is the highest user.


Ps web page just loaded so back online
 
iknowalittle said:
1). Yes It’s the huge drop in IOPS that I am referring to and I realise sata 2 will have an effect. My specs are :-

Asus P5W DH/Pentium D 940 3.20GHz/ATI Radeon HD 4770/2 x 2 Corsair PC2-600 (400MHz) old I know but it does the job for now.

With regard to the bottleneck I have not changed/added anything since the higher IOPS readings that I posted.
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It's not like your chipset suddenly remembered it had SATA 2, so the IOPS has nothing to do with that. It does, however, point towards the drive being busy. Resource monitor is rather complicated, and if you're running W10 (and maybe W7, I can't remember), you can get a decent overview of disk usage from Task Manager. If not, in Resource Manager, go to the Disk tab, make sure it's sorted by "Total (B/sec)" and look at what's at the top of your list. Also, look at the disk graph at the right and look at the scale of the graph - idling at the desktop the graph should be 1MB/sec or smaller. If it's higher, something is using your drive. If so, it should show up in the "processes with disk activity" overview, at the top of your list.

iknowalittle said:
2) Yes what on earth has wrote 50 GB , I honestly have not moved any large data since installing the SSD.
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Windows Updates? Game updates? Constant, heavy drive benchmarking? Other than that, there's not much that can write 50GB of data without increasing used disk space ...
 
Hi Valantar

Thank you very much for that detailed and informative reply.

Unfortunately I am not all that tech savvy so could you look at the screen shots and perhaps advice me on what you think.

I don’t play games so no downloads there. No windows update this week.

The only update was with AVG.

Now as for bechmarking I have just downloaded Hard Disk Sentinel but only used it to double check if I had Trim enabled on SSD, could that be the problem?


50GB of writes in three days is an awful lot especially as I literally haven’t transferred/used that date…..well not that I know of.



 
Try some updated ICH7R drivers.. Worth a shot.

Also hit it with JRT and MBAM. I would also remove the page file (disable temporarily), run SFC /scannow in cmd as admin, then dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth (and then enable page file).

Finally, remove AVG and see how it runs.
 
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PliotronX said:
Try some updated ICH7R drivers.. Worth a shot.

Also hit it with JRT and MBAM. I would also remove the page file (disable temporarily), run SFC /scannow in cmd as admin, then dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth (and then enable page file).

Finally, remove AVG and see how it runs.
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All done.......and all clear thank you although I left the driver alone 😉

Valantar said:
From looking at those pictures, I can't see anything immediately fishy. I do notice a significant (~10 second) spike in disk activity in the graph on the right, though. Wonder what that is, since it's clearly gone away before the screenshot was taken.
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Yes very strange but system seems all ok now......:beermug:
 
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