SSD running much slower than it should? Win7 already installed on it should i reformat?

sulbien

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Hey guys

I noticed my ssd is running much slower than when I first installed it and some games like sc2 are taking a very long time to load. I just ran crystaldiskmark at the 50mb setting and back with seq read speeds of 297mb/s and write speeds of 139. My regular hard drive obtained a speed of 103.8 reading and 155 writing. Is this in the normal range? I was reading a thread about optimizing and i read about how the ssd should be in the ahci mode and i noticed in the bios that mine is IDE. Should i reformat and reinstall windows and fix this? Any help is greatly appreciated!
 
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Yeah, you should definitely be seeing like 500MB/s speeds. I would go ahead and change to AHCI mode, see what that does. After that you might try a clean install if you don't see proper performance.


Yeah, you should definitely be seeing like 500MB/s speeds. I would go ahead and change to AHCI mode, see what that does. After that you might try a clean install if you don't see proper performance.
 
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