intel 320 slowed down

Ok, I have two intel 320 of 160gb each ( 320gb in total) and in raid 0, when I got them, the boot time was pretty good, like it load the windows logo, and one second after, it was open, I was thinking the performances on boot should be a little better but it was still ok, then, this week, the windows logo appear, then it takes 20 seconds! to boot up after the logo have popped up, so what should I do? Is it normal? I see a single intel 320 120gb drive booting faster then my raid on youtube, can anyone help me?

 

I would say run Intel SSD Optimizer but I don't think it supports RAID 0. I may be wrong on this too.

How much data do you have? The more stuff on SSD, the less garbage collection so keep only the vital stuff and move everything else to a secondary storage.


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All modern SSD's need TRIM to operate properly.

RAID (any level) breaks TRIM support currently.

To see your performance to the same 'new' levels:

Back up your data,
SE your SSD's
Re-install (clean install) Win7.

Good luck.

 

thanks everyone, I'll try your tips!

 

for the nth time, stop messing with RAID 0. It provides no benefit for 99.9% of the case.

 

I absolutely disagree. With my SATA II(3 GB/s) 2 X 128 GB SSDs in Raid0 I get the same or better performance than a SATA III (6GB/s) 256 GB SSD connected via AHCI.

 

Yea, the write and read speed are trully better, but I don't if it's true for the overall performance because my booting time are really long.

 

If your usage is doing benchmark all day, sure.

I didn't say 100% because there are legitimate case(very heavy seq read/write) that benefits from RAID 0. But those case are VERY VERY rare.

Beside, RAID 0 block your TRIM and over time, you write begin to suffer.

 

Then I SE.

 

Huuum, still slow, after a lot of try, but it is now set up as ata in my bios? Should I switch to Ahci and can I do it without a new clean install?

 

you should

 

Can I do it without another clean install? Or can I just go straight to the BIOS and change it?