- Feb 3, 2012
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Okay so I just got a crucial mx200 SSD for my switch to windows 10 (previously running 7).
My plan was to run my old HDD + the new SSD.
I noticed boot times were not increased at all and were perhaps a bit slower.
Initially I thought it was because I installed windows 10 as IDE so I did a fresh install with AHCI but to no avail.
So I did some research and found out maybe it was my HDD slowing down the SSD so I take apart my rig and unplug the HDD and it boots super fast, I almost didn't even see the windows logo on start up. I figured it was the HDD and put my rig back together, boot it up and its just as slow.
I was able to replicate it a few times but it seems like it does it randomly.
Right now I just have the SSD plugged in but it seems awful slow compared to what I was expecting and compared to how it was on the few times it did boot super fast.
The only problem I can find that I did wrong on install was that I left HDD attached during install, but that shouldn't make a difference, right?
I am also getting random blue screens every now and then, not sure if its a separate issue or not.
edit1: I just performed a bios update just in case and it didn't work.
edit2: Did a firmware update to the mx200 and it doesn't seem to have worked.
edit3: Turned on my computer this morning, and with SSD attached only it booted within 15 seconds from me pressing the power button which is amazing. I am still curious as to why I cannot have my HDD connected with my SSD, now I am going to be limited to 250gb and that's not sufficient for my use.
edit4: I guess it was a false alarm, startups are back to being extremely slow, Glary Utilities timed my start up to be 58 seconds, that's with everything possible disabled on start up. I'm also noticing that file explorer is having trouble loading anything.
My plan was to run my old HDD + the new SSD.
I noticed boot times were not increased at all and were perhaps a bit slower.
Initially I thought it was because I installed windows 10 as IDE so I did a fresh install with AHCI but to no avail.
So I did some research and found out maybe it was my HDD slowing down the SSD so I take apart my rig and unplug the HDD and it boots super fast, I almost didn't even see the windows logo on start up. I figured it was the HDD and put my rig back together, boot it up and its just as slow.
I was able to replicate it a few times but it seems like it does it randomly.
Right now I just have the SSD plugged in but it seems awful slow compared to what I was expecting and compared to how it was on the few times it did boot super fast.
The only problem I can find that I did wrong on install was that I left HDD attached during install, but that shouldn't make a difference, right?
I am also getting random blue screens every now and then, not sure if its a separate issue or not.
edit1: I just performed a bios update just in case and it didn't work.
edit2: Did a firmware update to the mx200 and it doesn't seem to have worked.
edit3: Turned on my computer this morning, and with SSD attached only it booted within 15 seconds from me pressing the power button which is amazing. I am still curious as to why I cannot have my HDD connected with my SSD, now I am going to be limited to 250gb and that's not sufficient for my use.
edit4: I guess it was a false alarm, startups are back to being extremely slow, Glary Utilities timed my start up to be 58 seconds, that's with everything possible disabled on start up. I'm also noticing that file explorer is having trouble loading anything.
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