SSD speed problems in Vaio laptop

Hey all,

Just upgraded my Vaio drive from a 500gb drive to a 100gb Vertex 2. Took quite awhile to shrink the partition down from the other drive and clone it to the new SSD, but I got it up and running. System is a bit snappier, but I really don't feel as though the SSD is even being used to its potential, and HD Tune confirms that.

Specs on this laptop said it should support full SATA2/AHCI. Windows shows SATA/AHCI controller installed, HDTune shows it running UDMA-6, but I'm only getting average 145MB/s read speed. Tried enabling AHCI in the bios.. but the bios on this thing is USELESS. the most useful feature in there is being able to set the damn clock

Is something up here? I just installed an SSD in my desktop and the performance was WAY higher. any ideas? I just read the thread on the intel 5 series performance and tried the tweaks.. improved a bit but not much.



SPECS-
Sony Vaio VPCS111FM
4gb ram, intel i5 M430
Windows 7 Pro x64
100gb OCZ Vertex 2
Intel 5 series SATA/AHCI controller

 

Welcome to the variable world of SSD's and SandForce 'up to' speeds.

Are you running the Intel RST drivers v10.1.1008?

Can you return it?

I don't know how else you can speed it up except by (maybe) doing a clean install so that Windows optimizes itself properly for the new hardware.

Good luck.

 

What IRST are you on? Vertex 2 does not like latest IRST as I found out with my Latitude 13.

 

Odds are probably because you CLONED the drive instead of installing fresh. That will screw up the alignment and kill performance.

The other thing is you have the drive almost filled. No drive, SSD or HDD works great when they are not full.

Definitely gotta install over again and setup things again.

 

Currently running RST 9.5.4.1001... in the process of updating it to 10.1 as we speak. I enabled AHCI in windows as well, confirmed TRIM is working. Tough to tell if AHCI is working without a bios option for it. I'm planning on freeing up some space on the drive, I need to clear some space off on my external. I'd love to figure out how to get rid of the 8gb 'recovery' partition too.. that's another day though.

Just got the drive from Newegg yesterday so I can always return it if need be. The computer feels a whole lot faster, but I bought the Vertex 2 for the sole purpose of the awesome read/write speeds so it'd be awesome to actually see them.

 

Not for a refund you can't. Every single SSD Newegg sells, at least from what I've seen, has an exchange only return policy.

You should also do what was mentioned and reinstall Windows cleanly. Cloning a hard drive to an SSD isn't a good idea.

 

You're definitely going to need to move some not essential things to another drive. Re: the 8GB recovery partition, you can used tools like Parted Magic. OR, you can do a fresh install using your Recovery discs (NOT via VAIO Care). I do believe you'll be asked if you want to keep the recovery partition (aka Sony Value-Added softwares). If you decline, the partition is MUCH smaller. Mine is 1.46GB

 

Welcome to the world of OCZ! They promise a lot..but I real world usage this are different. Try a Intel or Samsung.
Why?..I know because I tried OCZ too.