I’m having a hard time understanding why I am not noticing a huge difference with the SSD I just recently purchased. I got the Samsung mz-7pc128b on sale from Newegg and put it in my new build. I have cloned the drive to a spare Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM drive that I had to compare speeds of an identical install. The boot time of the Seagate is roughly 20 seconds from when you press the power button and on the SDD it is roughly 17 seconds. Shutdown on the Seagate is about 11 seconds where on the SDD it is about 9 seconds. The system doesn’t install programs any faster with the SDD over the Seagate drive as well from what I have seen when installing programs.
Maybe I’m expecting too much from the SDD but I’m wondering if this is the “BLAZING” performance that I can expect out of it and if so I’m going to return it for a refund since I am not impressed at all. I’ve got it running using a SATA III cable and in my SATA 6Gb/s port on the mobo as well. Any thoughts?
Here are the main components of the build:
MSI Z77A-GD65
I5-3750k
8GB DDR3 2133Mhz G-Skill Ripjaw X
EVGA GeForce GTX 680
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Maybe I’m expecting too much from the SDD but I’m wondering if this is the “BLAZING” performance that I can expect out of it and if so I’m going to return it for a refund since I am not impressed at all. I’ve got it running using a SATA III cable and in my SATA 6Gb/s port on the mobo as well. Any thoughts?
Here are the main components of the build:
MSI Z77A-GD65
I5-3750k
8GB DDR3 2133Mhz G-Skill Ripjaw X
EVGA GeForce GTX 680
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit