SSD slowing down.. What to do?

Basically , been 2 months since i got my G73 and basically , the loading times have become longer and longer... What can i do? I've done all the SSD tweaks at the start but for maintainence wise i have no idea what to do... Also , i analysed my SSD and its got a lot of defraged files.. i know you can't defrag SSD but what can you do about this?

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Leopard2

 

BUMP! Anyone? I need some idea plz... becomming slower and slower day by day.

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Leopard 2

 

BUMP!.. 2 days and no answers?

 

BUMP someone must have an answer?

 

There's not much you can do besides a manual garbage collection. Consider re-imaging your SSD.

There are lots of threads about this, hence not many people are replying . . .

 

Have to agree with Fett Man. Not much available on this one as its been hashed out many times. Wipe it and start again.

Not sure if this is a stock ASUS SSD or aftermarket add-on... you did not mention it. If ASUS, might want to give them a call. Perhaps they can swap out the drive for you.

Post back with your results.

 

I can only respond to the title: SSD slowing down.. What to do?

Depending on what SSD you have the following can help: Sanitary erase, secure erase, logging out (to trigger garbage collection), reducing writes (disabling page file, system restore, hibernation and defrag).

 

First off...which SSD? Intel G1, G2? SandForce based controller? Or one of those Indilinx controller based SSDs (used in the Vertex 1 and Agility 1 lines from OCZ for instance). Also what tweaks did you use? Some of them (especially a lot of FUD posted over at OCZ's tech forum) are not going to help and may actually hurt performance.

The Intel G1 is designed to 'age gracefully' and there is not much you can do about it outside of a sanitary erase or secure erase if the drive even supports it (it should though).

The G2 supports TRIM, which is what you really want, but you need the latest firmware and you have to run W7 to take advantage of it. Otherwise you are definitely screwed.

Indilinx drives (Vertex, Agility, etc) support GC and TRIM in simultaneous usage but again you need the latest firmware.

SandForce drives (Vertex 2, Agility 2, etc) should support TRIM out of the box but I do not know enough about the drive to really be able to help you there.

Samsung and Toshiba SSDs are also used, but mostly in OEM systems. Nothing is going to be able to help you if you've got those drives outside of a Sanitary Erase or Secure Erase if the drive does not support TRIM or GC out of the box. OEMs (and by extension Samsung and Toshiba) are not consumer friendly companies and only care about maintaining their OEM customers...they are not going to waste their time trying to make you happy by providing firmware updates.

Before you go about updating firmware or do anything like that you might want to backup your data. Some firmware updates are destructive.

 

its a 128GB Crucial C300 SSD... my sig should have the name.. wierd... so i should just log out and leave the screen? As for the tweaks i've done.. basically, i've turned hibernation off ,paging file off , superfetch , prefetch etc off.. basically i have done everything in below thread..

http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...sd-performance-tips-underperforming-ssds.html

So i really don't see why the performance is decreasing.. sorry about not having the SSD info earlier.

Thanks
Leopard 2

 

BUMP! Lagg on SSD is becomming irritating... more and more files are defragmented.. anything else i can do?

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Leopard 2