Hello all, I have been having a strange issue with my HDD, at least, the two benchmark tests mentioned in the title are telling me I do.
I am running a WD Caviar Black 1tb Drive, which before would get around 110 Mb/s read speeds on average. A few months back, I got a 45gb Corsair Accelerator SSD. It is a cache SSD that has software called Dataplex on it that does everything for you- it puts files on and off the SSD based on what you use most frequently, and it has also helped immensely in my startup times. Not only do I get to the desktop much faster but I can instantly load up google chrome and use it as I normally would while everything else is loading. (I guess because I use Chrome enough to qualify it for SSD storage lol)
But I am not here to plug a Corsair product. The other day, I was bored and decided to run some benchmarks. I did CrystalDiskMark and it gave me an average Read speed of 39 Mb/s. I ran it again, thinking something must have gone wrong. 41 Mb/s. Write speeds were better than they used to be though, I'd assume because of the Cache SSD.
I ran HD Tune as well (and continued to over the next several days) and the same thing always happened- the read speed test would spike to a maximum read speed of 130-140 Mb/s early on, but then quickly dip and stay at around the minimum 25-40 Mb/s.
This whole time, I have also been getting notifications from windows that "my computer is running slow" and that I should change colors to Windows Basic or something.
Thing is, my computer does not FEEL slow at all, if anything, it is faster than before. Games load up fine, videos stream in HD easily, and startup and shutdown feel quite fast.
So I guess my question is if whether the SSD software is screwing around with HD TUne and CrystalDiskMark? Oh and I also did run a health test in HD Tune, and everything checks out. My Windows Experience INdex score has also remained unchanged. I also cleared out old programs I don't use anymore and cleaned up and refragmented the HDD, but still getting slow read speeds in the benchmarks.
I also checked around online to see what causes slowdowns in Read Speeds, and I don't have any sort of virus that I or Microsoft Security Essentials knows of.
What gives?
Specs:
AMD Phenom II X6 1055t @ 3.5ghz. (Stock: 2.8)
8gb Corsair DDR3 RAM
Gigabyte Mobo
Diamond Radeon 7850
700w CoolMax PSU
WD Caviar Black 1tb HDD
Corsair Accelerator 45gb Cache SSD
I am running a WD Caviar Black 1tb Drive, which before would get around 110 Mb/s read speeds on average. A few months back, I got a 45gb Corsair Accelerator SSD. It is a cache SSD that has software called Dataplex on it that does everything for you- it puts files on and off the SSD based on what you use most frequently, and it has also helped immensely in my startup times. Not only do I get to the desktop much faster but I can instantly load up google chrome and use it as I normally would while everything else is loading. (I guess because I use Chrome enough to qualify it for SSD storage lol)
But I am not here to plug a Corsair product. The other day, I was bored and decided to run some benchmarks. I did CrystalDiskMark and it gave me an average Read speed of 39 Mb/s. I ran it again, thinking something must have gone wrong. 41 Mb/s. Write speeds were better than they used to be though, I'd assume because of the Cache SSD.
I ran HD Tune as well (and continued to over the next several days) and the same thing always happened- the read speed test would spike to a maximum read speed of 130-140 Mb/s early on, but then quickly dip and stay at around the minimum 25-40 Mb/s.
This whole time, I have also been getting notifications from windows that "my computer is running slow" and that I should change colors to Windows Basic or something.
Thing is, my computer does not FEEL slow at all, if anything, it is faster than before. Games load up fine, videos stream in HD easily, and startup and shutdown feel quite fast.
So I guess my question is if whether the SSD software is screwing around with HD TUne and CrystalDiskMark? Oh and I also did run a health test in HD Tune, and everything checks out. My Windows Experience INdex score has also remained unchanged. I also cleared out old programs I don't use anymore and cleaned up and refragmented the HDD, but still getting slow read speeds in the benchmarks.
I also checked around online to see what causes slowdowns in Read Speeds, and I don't have any sort of virus that I or Microsoft Security Essentials knows of.
What gives?
Specs:
AMD Phenom II X6 1055t @ 3.5ghz. (Stock: 2.8)
8gb Corsair DDR3 RAM
Gigabyte Mobo
Diamond Radeon 7850
700w CoolMax PSU
WD Caviar Black 1tb HDD
Corsair Accelerator 45gb Cache SSD
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