Slow SSD drive after two days????
I bought a new motherboard (p67) and a brand new x25-m Intel ssd drive. I installed it with RST drivers and ran ASSSD test and SandraSisoft. Both showed nice results (0.0.6ms, 258MB/s).
Two days later - access time 1ms, speed 248MB :/
trim is enabled (got 0 after typing the query command).
1. When I go to device manager in Windows, it shows Microsoft ahci drivers, even though RST is running in the background and e.g. As SSD recognizes that it is an Inter driver??? might it be the reason???
2. All I did in the last 2 days was SP1 for Win7
3. I have more thatn 50GB of free space on this HDD and ran 'quick check' using intel toolbox - no improvement...
I am worried that it will get worse and worse...
Any suggestions pls??? Thx!
Two days later - access time 1ms, speed 248MB :/
trim is enabled (got 0 after typing the query command).
1. When I go to device manager in Windows, it shows Microsoft ahci drivers, even though RST is running in the background and e.g. As SSD recognizes that it is an Inter driver??? might it be the reason???
2. All I did in the last 2 days was SP1 for Win7
3. I have more thatn 50GB of free space on this HDD and ran 'quick check' using intel toolbox - no improvement...
I am worried that it will get worse and worse...
Any suggestions pls??? Thx!
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Duncan Meyers
Steady state performance will probably be around 50% of the initial performance.
ASKER
Thx Meyersd, what about the driver? I think it is NOT ok, that I put RST and in device manager I can still see MS drivers?
Did you install Intel latest matrix storage driver during OS installation?
Go to Device Manager - right click on controller - update driver and point it to your latest driver.
Go to Device Manager - right click on controller - update driver and point it to your latest driver.
ASKER
No, it is Windows 7.
I installed Intel RST drivers after the installation of Windows to replace MS AHCI drivers...
I installed Intel RST drivers after the installation of Windows to replace MS AHCI drivers...
Try to use Update Driver option via Device Manager and point it to RST driver.
I don't really understand where you see a problem...
According to Anandtech's review (this one for example : http://www.anandtech.com/show/4244/intel-ssd-320-review/7 ) you should have your X25-M g2 160GB reach about 255MB/s
==> 3% less performance means you may have some concurrent processes slightly using your SSD in the background. Regarding the 1ms latency, this is more sensitive...but I would suggest to redo your test
According to Anandtech's review (this one for example : http://www.anandtech.com/show/4244/intel-ssd-320-review/7 ) you should have your X25-M g2 160GB reach about 255MB/s
==> 3% less performance means you may have some concurrent processes slightly using your SSD in the background. Regarding the 1ms latency, this is more sensitive...but I would suggest to redo your test
ASKER
Thx, it stays on this level, so you were right Meyersd
Thanks! Glad I could help.