SSD has slowed to a crawl. How do I restore the speed?

[BlahBlahYouToo]

a couple of years, I replaced the hdd on my gf's laptop with a 128gb WD siliconedge blue SSD, which uses a toshiba modified JMicron JMF618/612.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2954/2

night and day difference between the hdd and ssd of course.
so i left her with it and 3 years later, she tells me it's unbearably slow. i take a look at it and there's only 3gb free. she filled it up to the max.

we freed up 40gb and it's not much better.
is there a tool to refresh it?

 

[Elixer]

Yes, backup everything, and then do a Secure Erase on it, then restore everything back.

Shouldn't take long with a SSD.

 

[beginner99]

Secure erase should theoretically do it but the other question is how much you value your work? That ssd is crap and your gf obviously needs more storage so personally I woudl just replace it with a bigger one if money is not an issue...

 

[kmmatney]

I would have thought that freeing up 40GB would have eventually sped things up again. That drive should support TRIM in Windows 7, although it may take 20-30 for the drive to do all teh garbage collection needed. My daughter's 40GB SSD filled up, and things slowed down, but compressing the entire drive freed up ~10GB, and it sped up again.

 

[2is]

TRIM will only work if the SATA controller is in AHCI mode. The effectiveness of garbage collection varies from drive to drive. Really want to have TRIM along side it to maintain performance without having to secure erase/reinstall.

Open a command prompt and type "fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify" without the quotes. If the returned result is 0 TRIM is enabled and 1 means its disabled.

 

[VirtualLarry]

TRIM will only work if the SATA controller is in AHCI mode.

Not true.

 

[GlacierFreeze]

Yeah, performance should be restored for the most part via garbage collection/TRIM. Just let the computer idle for a while.

Post benches too.

 

[Cerb]

I would have thought that freeing up 40GB would have eventually sped things up again. That drive should support TRIM in Windows 7, although it may take 20-30 for the drive to do all teh garbage collection needed. My daughter's 40GB SSD filled up, and things slowed down, but compressing the entire drive freed up ~10GB, and it sped up again.

Is your daughter's 40GB a Jmicron or early Indilnix controller? Being 40GB, I'm going to guess it's an Intel.

 

[tweakboy]

Grab Crystal disk info... free app,, it will tell you exactly whats going on,, like wear and tear ,, life exptancy,,, if its lower then 100 percent, theres your answer. Nothing you can do about it. Burry that drive and get a bigger one 256GB Sammy .... gl

 

[cantholdanymore]

Is the laptop AMD? I upgraded my wife's HP dm1z to a SSD but the AMD sata driver didn't support TRIM. I installed the microsoft default driver and problem solved

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

no, it's an older Dell XPS M1330. we gave up too soon and shut it off and she used her desktop exclusively.

after letting it sit to do garbage collection, it's doing noticeably better now, but still not as good as new. maybe we'll let it sit overnight.

 

[Elixer]

no, it's an older Dell XPS M1330. we gave up too soon and shut it off and she used her desktop exclusively.

after letting it sit to do garbage collection, it's doing noticeably better now, but still not as good as new. maybe we'll let it sit overnight.

As I mentioned, the best you can do is Secure Erase the drive.
That will get it as close to new as possible.

 

[kmmatney]

Is your daughter's 40GB a Jmicron or early Indilnix controller? Being 40GB, I'm going to guess it's an Intel.

An old Intel drive (G2), so that probably helps.