Tips for Speeding up Intel X25-M G2

[sideshow23bob]

I've had this SSD for about 8 months, and of late I feel like my computer is a bit slower than it used to be, especially after using it for an hour or so; then it's a bit faster upon a restart(that may be more of a memory issue), but I didn't have this issue when I first installed the SSD. I thought I enable TRIM, via the Intel Firmware Update but I don't know how to test that I have.

In addition to that are there any good maintenance programs for Refreshing my SSD.

The System is a Dell Studio XPS with Core 2 Duo P8600, 4GB, DDR3-SDRAM PC3-8500, and INTEL SSDSA2M080G2GC (80GB)
running Windows 7, and I usually have about 10 Chrome Tabs up, 10 Firefox tabs up, and 2 or 3 Excel Files, but after an hour everything gets very slow.

Thanks for any tips!

 

[postmortemIA]

i don't see what it has to do with ssd. at that point everything you are running is loaded into system RAM

 

[sideshow23bob]

Ok gotcha. Is it normal for Memory performance to get worse over time? I realize this is in the storage section so my apologies if my problem isn't strictly storage related.

 

[bigi]

In addition to that are there any good maintenance programs for Refreshing my SSD.

Intel SSD toolbox.

Your problems may not be SSD related.

 

[smangular]

Your problems may not be SSD related.

Agreed Intel's SSD Toolbox will tell you the number of bad sectors and errors reported. Its more than likely a software problem than a SSD problem. Try to clean out any startup programs and then try to isolate the problem to when only in one or two of your three main applications.

 

[sideshow23bob]

Ok, gotcha. Thanks I ran the Tool, and I'll look to clean out startup programs