- Aug 9, 2014
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Hi there,
I need your help and advice. Here's the whole story. Yesterday I had my mSATA SSD installed and I decided to have a fresh Windows 7 installation on it (legal copy.) Everything went quite well (except for the fact that my new drive wasn't bootable but I got rid of the problem.) The real issue that drives me crazy is that the PC doesn't really seem to be faster and what's more it actually seems to be slower in certain areas. What's really annoying is the fact that whenever I try to access my old HDD with all my music, documents and movies the PC lags for about 3-4 seconds before a given folder is opened <sic!> I use Total Commander and I'm used to fast file browsing but now I can't jump from one folder to another quickly... Well, the worst time is the first time I open Total Commander. After that it's better but still disappointing. When using the standard Windows Explorer when I open the E drive it takes the system more time than before to show the whole list of folders. Sometimes half of them are shown and then I have to wait for the remaining ones to be visible. I also noticed some glitches while playing music. It's like... tracks skip and stutter...
I really don't know what's going on here! My old drive (I mean, when it was my primary drive) opened those folders faster. Another annoying thing that happened was that Firefox lagged so much once that it actually said "software not responding." SiSoft Sandra takes more time than before to show the computer overview... This can even last 30seconds!
I checked the BIOS and looks like AHCI is on but I can't choose which drive uses AHCI so it looks like both of them are using it.
The old HDD is using BUS 0, the new one BUS 1. For some reason CrystalDisk Info shows the WDC first and then the new Samsung. Is that normal?
I'd be really grateful for any advice because I spent quite a lot of money on this mSATA SSD and so far I'm totally disappointed.
My PC specs:
Gigabyte U2442S
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU
Transcend JM1333KSN-4G 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM PC3-10700S DDR3-1334
WDC WD5000BPVT-22HXZT3 (500.1GB, SATA300, 2.5", 5400rpm, 8MB Cache) : 466GB (D) (E) (F)
Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120GB mSATA (120GB, SATA600, SSD) : 112GB (C)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M
Windows Experience Index
Current System : 4.7
I need your help and advice. Here's the whole story. Yesterday I had my mSATA SSD installed and I decided to have a fresh Windows 7 installation on it (legal copy.) Everything went quite well (except for the fact that my new drive wasn't bootable but I got rid of the problem.) The real issue that drives me crazy is that the PC doesn't really seem to be faster and what's more it actually seems to be slower in certain areas. What's really annoying is the fact that whenever I try to access my old HDD with all my music, documents and movies the PC lags for about 3-4 seconds before a given folder is opened <sic!> I use Total Commander and I'm used to fast file browsing but now I can't jump from one folder to another quickly... Well, the worst time is the first time I open Total Commander. After that it's better but still disappointing. When using the standard Windows Explorer when I open the E drive it takes the system more time than before to show the whole list of folders. Sometimes half of them are shown and then I have to wait for the remaining ones to be visible. I also noticed some glitches while playing music. It's like... tracks skip and stutter...
I really don't know what's going on here! My old drive (I mean, when it was my primary drive) opened those folders faster. Another annoying thing that happened was that Firefox lagged so much once that it actually said "software not responding." SiSoft Sandra takes more time than before to show the computer overview... This can even last 30seconds!I checked the BIOS and looks like AHCI is on but I can't choose which drive uses AHCI so it looks like both of them are using it.
The old HDD is using BUS 0, the new one BUS 1. For some reason CrystalDisk Info shows the WDC first and then the new Samsung. Is that normal?
I'd be really grateful for any advice because I spent quite a lot of money on this mSATA SSD and so far I'm totally disappointed.
My PC specs:
Gigabyte U2442S
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU
Transcend JM1333KSN-4G 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM PC3-10700S DDR3-1334
WDC WD5000BPVT-22HXZT3 (500.1GB, SATA300, 2.5", 5400rpm, 8MB Cache) : 466GB (D) (E) (F)
Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120GB mSATA (120GB, SATA600, SSD) : 112GB (C)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M
Windows Experience Index
Current System : 4.7
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