Question SSD life degrading at a unprecedented rate

[Mr Sesh]

Hi Everyone,

I've started using CrystalDiskMark on a gaming pc i bought (mostly second hand parts) to test the speed of my drives.

I've noticed that each time I trim my SSD it degrades the speeds by a huge margin and I'm quite confused as too why.

After trimming for the first time I saw that the results were around 250mbs mark for reading and writing but after a second trim its now reading at 4mb.

I'm really not sure what to do or how this degraded so quickly... I hope this is recoverable.


Finding it a little difficult to get the pictures up on this post but I have uploaded everything to a imgur account including driver dates, stats, device info and my HDD drive data as a comparison.

https://imgur.com/user

View: https://imgur.com/user/MrSesh


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,
Mike

 

[Mr Sesh]

In case it might be a part of the issue, I used the software Smart Defrag 6

 

[USAFRet]

In case it might be a part of the issue, I used the software Smart Defrag 6

And WHY are you defragging a SSD?

Leave it, and let Windows manage that.

(and we can't see your image)

 

[Mr Sesh]

I trimmed the SSD and yeah sorry about the link didn't work but at the bottom of the broken image there is the url to the page.

 

[Zerk2012]

What do you mean by trim?

Trim sort of just does it's own thing without you doing anything. If your defraging a SSD your making a huge mistake.

 

[USAFRet]

I trimmed the SSD and yeah sorry about the link being a bit <Mod Edit>, at the bottom of the broken image there is the url to the page.

That link shows nothing of interest.

 

[Mr Sesh]

From my understanding when you delete big files from your SSD it will still leave data on the flash memory in order to increase the potential of the ssd you can trim it to improve its performance.

Of course its not the same as defrag, I'm quite aware that defraging a ssd will do damage.

the images show the speeds of a HDD drive and the other (the slow one) is the SSD.

The black image shows that Trimm on the drive is enabled so it should have any issues with being Trimming it

 

[USAFRet]

the images show the speeds of a HDD drive and the other (the slow one) is the SSD.

No, that link shows nothing related to your drives. At all.

In imgur, after you upload a pic, there is a dropdown that allows you to copy links to it, in various formats.
One of those formats being BBCode. Or the actual whatever.jpg.

All that link is is to /user/MrSesh. No file or image at all.

 

[Mr Sesh]

So sorry pal, let me sort that out

 

[Mr Sesh]

The images should be up now, they were hidden.

Thanks

 

[USAFRet]

The images should be up now, they were hidden.

Thanks

Still the same.

This is what we see:

 

[USAFRet]

This is where you find the link to the actual file:

 

[Mr Sesh]

I'm just going to completely re do the post to include the images, this is embarrassing.

 

[Mr Sesh]

SSD

HDD

Comand Prompt (apprently 0 means it enabled for SSD trimming)

SSD Health Report (its looks like its completely fine)

Drive version

Again sorry pal, never used imgur before or this forum although i get all my advice on here.

 

[USAFRet]

How is that SSD connected?

 

[Mr Sesh]

My mohterboard is a P8H6 1 - I LX R2.0 /RM/ SI i believe its the SATA III type as i saw the 3gbps label below them.

 

[USAFRet]

My mohterboard is a P8H6 1 - I LX R2.0 /RM/ SI i believe its the SATA III type as i saw the 3gbps label below them.

3 gbps indicates SATA II, not III

And the manufacturer spec sheet reinforces that.

P8H61-I LX R2.0 - Support

www.asus.com

Intel® H61(B3) chipset :
4 x SATA 3Gb/s port(s), blue


SATA III would be 6Gb/s

 

[USAFRet]

However, it is still "slow", even for a SATA II connection.

This is the C drive? Is this a new OS install, or something from before?

 

[Mr Sesh]

It came with windows pre-installed but would it not be the trimming action itself because I can't even see anything around trimming doing potential harm to a SSD on other forums? but it got worse after the second time i did it. Although I'm not experiencing any impact but I haven't gamed since this issue

 

[USAFRet]

It came with windows pre-installed but would it not be the trimming action itself because I can't even see anything around trimming doing potential harm to a SSD on other forums? but it got worse after the second time i did it. Although I'm not experiencing any impact but I haven't gamed since this issue

For ANY used system, you personally need to do a full wipe and reinstalled. Literally, any system you personally have not broken the original factory seal on.
You have no idea what is in there.

And it is still a SATA II port.

 

[Mr Sesh]

Thanks, I have contacted the ebay supplier to help with issue and possibly replacing SSD and I will look into doing a full reboot. Also thanks for informing me about the SATA II i was a little unsure. Still learning

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks, I have contacted the ebay supplier to help with issue and possibly replacing SSD and I will look into doing a full reboot. Also thanks for informing me about the SATA II i was a little unsure. Still learning

What is the specific make/model of the SSD?

 

[Mr Sesh]

the SSD is listed on amazon, I did the search with the number CrystalDiskInfo gave me (bt58ssd09s)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/BAITITON-Internal-TESTED-Laptop-Desktop/dp/B07CNC6S2D

 

[USAFRet]

the SSD is listed on amazon, I did the search with the number CrystalDiskInfo gave me (bt58ssd09s)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/BAITITON-Internal-TESTED-Laptop-Desktop/dp/B07CNC6S2D

BAITITON
Never heard of that brand.

I wouldn't expect greatness...

 

[Mr Sesh]

SOLVED!

Just before I was going to try a system restore as I thought it could be a issue with me doing a deep optimisation yesterday but I quickly went into the BIOS and changed in advanced seetings the SATA configuration from AHCI to IDE.


apon booting I check to see a big change in the speeds.

To double check, I restated and did the test again!

Seems that the motherboard itself must have some-sort of compatibility issue with that configuration or the SSD itself.