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    Sony S13A SSD Speed Issue

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Rufio84, Aug 12, 2012.

  1. Rufio84

    Rufio84 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi All,

    I got the new S13A about a month ago and immediatley installed a 256 GB Crucial M4 SSD and 4 GB Ram (8 total). I did a clean install of Windows 7 64 bit and installed all of the necessary drivers based on my research in the owners lounge. Windows boots up in less than 10 seconds which is great.

    The problem I'm having is that all applications seem to take way too long to launch. If I right click on the desktop for example, it takes a several seconds to display the applicable window. I assumed the problem was with the SSD, I downloaded the latest driver for the SSD but was prompted that I already had the latest version installed. I'm not sure what else to do at this point, anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.
     
    Rufio84, Aug 12, 2012
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    Your ssd has a defect.
     
    Colpolite, Aug 12, 2012
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    Are you sure about that? I baught the SSD while it was on sale several weeks before buying the laptop, I'll have to check but I'm not sure I can still return it. Is there anything else I can check to confirm that it's defective and not something driver related?
     
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    Try crystal disk info
     
    Colpolite, Aug 12, 2012
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    SOmetimes, it's a driver or application issue due to the way Windows was setup. I had the same experience in my M4. A reformat and re-setup and the problem went away.
     
    blurblur, Aug 12, 2012
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    Have you try to benchmark AS SSD or HD Tune?
     
    buiquanghung, Aug 12, 2012
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    Hey, I hadn't heard of crystal disk before so I just downloaded and installed. After launching it states that the health status of my SSD is good (100%). I also have values of 100 for all of the IDs listed at the bottom. Is there anything else I should be checking there? Thanks.
     
    Rufio84, Aug 13, 2012
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    I just tried HD Tune. For the benchmark I got a minimum of 155 MB per second and max of 212. On the error scan tab, It took about 25 minutes and I do not appear to have any damaged blocks.
     
    Rufio84, Aug 13, 2012
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