Ssd very slow

[Rijck]

So i just bought a used pc 400€ specs intel core i7 860 gtx 760 250 gb ssd this might sound stupid but i dont know what mother board exactly its a gigabyte as old as the cpu, it was pritty high end bc it has 6 ram slots and Dolby theater. But it's about the ssd i just installed windows 10 from windows 7 and my ssd is so fucking slow, its insane like twice as slow as an hdd not only the boot up but also normal use i cant even use skype properly !!!! But sometimes when it boots up its fast again its pritty random and i dont know wtf is going on i tried putting it in other sata's but it did not work it annoys me a lot please help, btw i did a benchmark and it was about 170mb/s write and read (samsung 850 evo)

 

[ToineF]

in the BIOS, make sure your sata port is set to AHCI.

Also, in windows, make sure the TRIM is activated for your SSD. http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/39569-trim-support-ssd-check-enable-disable.html

Also make sure you have no malware....

 

[geofelt]

Older motherboards did not have 6gb sata, only 3gb which cuts your sequential performance potential in half.
170mb/s does not seem out of line.
But, small random I/O should not be impacted much, and that is what windows does mostly.
Some older motherboards has auxiliary chips to implement sata, and they were poor performers.
Run cpu-Z which will identify your motherboard.
Then you can download the motherboard manual.

You may need to update your motherboard drivers, and there may possibly be a bios update that is applicable.
DO NOT update the bios on speculation. A failed bios update can permanently brick your motherboard.

Sometimes your windows starting origin on the ssd is not aligned on a boundary, impacting performance.
Run AS SSD You should see in green two numbers indicating proper alignment.

 

[Rijck]

in the BIOS, make sure your sata port is set to AHCI.

Also, in windows, make sure the TRIM is activated for your SSD. http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/39569-trim-support-ssd-check-enable-disable.html

Also make sure you have no malware....

how do i do that im not good with the bios, more a hardware guy ;P

 

[GearUp]

Preliminary results for me suggest not using the Intel RST driver. While specified for AHCI it primarily benefits RAID systems. I can't see a benefit and it loads slowly on startup and slows the reading of shared libraries on a media system. I thought I had read that libraries were being discontinued but they remain in Windows 10, although no Media Center.
The only disadvantage appears to be that an icon appears for safe removal of the device. Apparently it can't be removed from this way.

 

[Rijck]

Older motherboards did not have 6gb sata, only 3gb which cuts your sequential performance potential in half.
170mb/s does not seem out of line.
But, small random I/O should not be impacted much, and that is what windows does mostly.
Some older motherboards has auxiliary chips to implement sata, and they were poor performers.
Run cpu-Z which will identify your motherboard.
Then you can download the motherboard manual.

You may need to update your motherboard drivers, and there may possibly be a bios update that is applicable.
DO NOT update the bios on speculation. A failed bios update can permanently brick your motherboard.

Sometimes your windows starting origin on the ssd is not aligned on a boundary, impacting performance.
Run AS SSD You should see in green two numbers indicating proper alignment.

i DO have 6gb sata and 8 sata ports sata3 6 Gb

 

[ToineF]

in the BIOS, make sure your sata port is set to AHCI.

Also, in windows, make sure the TRIM is activated for your SSD. http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/39569-trim-support-ssd-check-enable-disable.html

Also make sure you have no malware....

how do i do that im not good with the bios, more a hardware guy ;P

Depending on the computer, when you start the computer, hold F2 or maybe F8 (check what key to press for your computer) and once you are in the bios it's pretty easy to figure it out.

 

[GearUp]

You can ignore the RST as slowing performance since any system loads the library slowly.
The Windows AHCI driver however still seems to be as fast as the Intel driver without RAID.
It sounds like you got a bad transfer and need to do a clean install. The benchmark results I see in Administrative tools don't make a lot of sense since the SSD is clearly faster at some tasks.