My SSD is slow

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Hey! I just bought an SSD (Kingston 120gb SSDnow 300v) and I installed Windows 7 on it. My friend has an exakt same SSD and OS on it but his is way quicker than mine, Mine takes (From windows starting logo pops up) 17 seconds to the sign in menu. My friends however takes 7 seconds during the same time. I had my mass storage drive in my motherboard whilst installing my OS, does this effect? like create a hidden partition on that and reads from It so it takes longer? Any suggenstions? thanks
 


Ok. Do you have the same MOBO as your friend? The new SATA interface is 6GB per second. If you do not have a motherboard that has that transfer rate and he does, that would explain it. I doubt the SSD itself is "slow".
 
I have ASUS Sabertooth 990FX with 6gb/s adn he has MSI G45 gaming 1150 with 6gb/s. I dont think that is the issue. I have 40 gb left, so that should not be an issue either... Thanks for the replies
 
I was just gonna say to make sure AHCI is enabled.

I guess we gotta get the fixed in order for your system to be stable anyway.

I would unplug all drives other than the boot drive, and try to set it to AHCI, see if that BSOD.

If so, reset CMOS and try again.

If not, make sure BIOS is latest version.

If that doesn't work, reset CMOS and re-install Windows with only SSD plugged in.
 
Now I am getting frustrated. I reinstalled my Windows on my SSD and unplugged my storage drive and that wentwell, the installation completed and I downloaded necessary programs etc and plugged my storage drive in, rebooted, and timed the startup. 17 seconds before, 30 seconds now... My SATA driver wont do anything for me, will go more in depth with that tomorrow but seriously, How can it get slower?
 


Use one of the brown SATA port (6Gb)
Go to BIOS configure the SATA that connect to SSD is 6Gb and set as AHCI
If you want to re-install the OS

Or Just boot it go to AMD download proper drivers for your MB:
AMD Chipset Driver V8.973 (8.0.877.0) or later for Windows XP/Vista/7 32bit & 64bit.(WHQL)
AMD Chipset Driver V8.981 (8.0.881.0) or later for Windows 8 32bit & 64bit.(WHQL)
Again make sure your BIOS is AHCI
Your system should be pretty fast

 


Unless you perform a low-level format (zerofill) on the SSD it will continue to get slower as you fill it up.
Reinstall and normal formats will just leave the data on the drive with a status of overwrite tagged to the data, further degrading the performance.

SSD's perform an erase and write in order to add data to the drive, this is where the degradation becomes noticeable over a long period of time.

http://www.intel.com/support/ssdc/hpssd/sb/CS-032319.htm