m1330 ssd speed

hi, I appreciate this is probably how it is but I was wondering if anyone else with an SSD is experiencing painfully slow write times?

 

How "slow" is slow in your standard?

 

Also, please list your system specs and software so we can examine possible reasoning.

 

writing a 128Mb file takes a lifetime, my previous m6100 was way faster than this.
anything than swaps out to swap file - hd on, super slow system.
anything that uses temp files slows the system
HD light comes on, no response then it's off again.
writing 2 files at once is almost impossible

I've got all the fixes for the known locking compat issues and it's much better than it was.

 

1 Xps M1330 Core 2 Duo T7500 2.20ghz, 800, 4
1 13.3" Wxga (1280x800) White-led Display
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1 Memory Dual-channel 2048mb (2x1024) 667m
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1 128 Mb Nvidia Geforce 8400m Gs
1 English - Vista Ultimate (32bit Os)

 

SSD will do much faster random access but slower write of large files, so yes this is how it is. In the normal use the OS reads many many small files so random access is important for the overall performance.

 

Yes I have your answer and you are not going to like it...and then I will help you to try something.

You have the Sandisk 32Gb SSD which is only outdone by slow write performance by TRANSCEND. On that SSD, it is horrid and, although there is rumour of a firmware fix, Dell knows nothing of this.

You can see the reviews of this SSD below in SSDs Benchmarked.

You will find it extremely long to put your system to sleep, hibernate and so on...utilizing anything that requires writing of a large block of data.

My idea...

Contact Dell Technical Support and raise an issue, explaining they should not be selling SSds with lower write speeds than most hard drives. Explain to them that, with this SSD, the system is unbearable at the best of times.

Go along this lines and then politely ask what the write of the Samsung is and if this could be the reasoning they stopped selling the Sandisk..

Hint Hint Complementary Upgrade Request...

EDIT: Proficio, this is not correct. All but the Sandisk and Transcend will equal, and most cases blow away the write speeds of any HD. Feel free to browse my benchmarks in the New SSD Thread or read through the HD vs SSD Thread.

 

I agree with what you say about the Sandisk but could any of the performance issues be related to slow file transfers in Vista? If the comparison was to writing files in XP maybe it could be a factor too.

I guess it depends on what type of write the system was doing.

 

Uhhh no. If you compare the Sandisk to the SSD I am using, the Mtron Pro, you will see an absolutely humongous increase in write speeds regardless of whether you are in XP or Vista. Take a look at the New SSD Threads and check the write comparisons through the ATTO benchmarks.

I will get alot of comeback from XP lovers here but I have never had a faster system than this Vista system with the SSD, not even close.

 

Found this on Dell's website...

"Like others here I purchased a laptop with a 32GB Sandisk SSD, that would regularly freeze when writing to itself (a Latitude D430).

After discussing the situation with my account manager and tech support they replaced it f.o.c. with the 64GB Samsung SSD. I took an image of the D430 with the Sandisk SSD using Acronis True Image, swapped over the SSD's, and then put the image onto the Samsung SSD."

 

thanks for the tips, I've raised a support issue with Dell.

 

That's great that yours is so fast, I noticed a drop in file transfer speeds (even disk to disk) on my desktop beteen Visa and XP using the same hardware. Apart from that I really like Visa actually and I've not had any issues with it.

 

I will concede that Vista untweaked is slower than XP in most cases. I have taken alot of time to find every little thing possible to make the system scream, the end result being the Vista Tweak Thread which many have had similar success with.

Are there games that run faster in XP? I believe so. Is it possible, if one takes the time to build a Vista system successfully, to make Vista faster? I believe this as well.