SSD Woes

So recently I bought an Intel X25M 80GB SSD. When I installed it an put vista on it, I was amazed at how fast it was. The perfect hard drive for a laptop: silent, no heat, and super fast, right?

And then the headaches began.

My laptop began freezing randomly, especially if I tried to do a lot right after logging in. I have come to the point where I am on my last nerve. I installed all my programs/drivers like I normally would... Nothing is different other than the hard drive.

So my question is, to my fellow SSDers... Is have any of you had this issue to? Any recommendations on how to fix it? It is not worth the headaches to pay so much for a product that has an issue like this.... I will be returning it soon if I can't find a way to fix this problem=[

 

Go to my computer, right click on the drive and pick properties, then uncheck "allow indexing service to index this drive for faster search" and then follow the instructions on this page to disable last accessed time stamps in NTFS:
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/186237-last-access-updating-enable-disable.html
I can't garuntee that will fix the problem but it does help on many SSDs that have random write problems like OCZs, Intel's drive is supposed to be mostly immune to this but it still might help. The other thing you should do is make sure you have the latest SATA drivers.

 

I checked and both are disabled

 

I had all these problems, A simple switch to XP was the cure.

 

How about write caching for the disk:
http://lonesysadmin.net/2007/01/29/windows-vista-performance-tip-enable-write-caching/
is that enabled also?

You can also check some of the other tweaks OCZ is suggesting for their drives at:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47212
most of them aren't important on a faster system and may help your situation, especially the prefetch/superfetch etc stuff

Also if you have 4GB of ram you can consider a reasonably sized ram disk (say 700mb) and move the page file to it and put all your internet browser caches on it

 

Write caching is disabled.

I thought about going to XP, but I am sticking with Vista as I have Turno Memory( as useless as people say it is).

I think I will just try and return it. If I can't I will returnto this thread to explore other options. Thanks to all that have helped.

 

enabling write caching should definately help, on a laptop its pretty safe since it has a built in battery backup as it were. The way that thing is advertised though it doesn't seem like it should have issues like that.