Show us your SSD performance

I just put an SSD in my new laptop. What do you guys think?


Not bad for a laptop is it?

I was lucky. I got a laptop with 2 hard drives. So, I used a 64GB for OS, and a Vertex2 for data. That's all I really need, and for some reason, if you put a mechanical hard drive in for a data drive, it drags down your speed on the OS. I have no earthly Idea why.

It does OK for a laptop. I'm not a laptop person, so they are all slow to me. But it has an 15-2410M, I put 8GB ram in it, and it has a POS Nvidia 540M with Optimus, which is worthless. It seems to do pretty good for a laptop though. I thought the specs were pretty good for 699.00. I couldn't find anything near that price so I got it.

Essenbe

My SSD was slow when I installed it at times.

The one HDD was still marked in Disk Management as ACTIVE and PRIMARY.

When I set it as just PRIMARY the SSD sped back up.
The SSD was continuously trying to Index the HDD when it was still marked ACTIVE.

Mike

lnav83 said:

I am really looking forward to upgrading to a SSD boot drive and a second data drive, but I've heard nothing but horror stories about failure rates and BSOD's, etc. any suggestions? I was think OCZ, Intel, or Kingston.

I can't really advise you, but can tell you my thoughts. If you go to any online tech locations and read about any motherboard, hard drive or anything else, you will read horror stories. I don't believe the failure rate of SSD's are as high as mechanical hard drives, but any of them can fail, but with a good warranty just RMA it. I own 2 crucials, an OCZ vertex2, and an Intel X-25M. The OCZ failed when I first bought it and I RMA'd it and have had no problems with any of them since that one episode. The horror stories shouldn't bother you, or you would never buy any piece of technology. Go to Newegg and look up whatever hard drive you are using now and read the feedback. I can assure you that you will see some horror stories. You just have to take a chance. I consider myself lucky because i have had very few problems. BTW, I've RMA'd 5 mechanical hard drives, so I don't see the risk is any more than buying anything else.

Hopalong X said:

Essenbe

Something I ran into when I put mine in. The SSD with the OS was continuously Indexing the old HDD that was the Boot and System HDD.

In Disk Management "D" was still showing and marked "Active" and "Primary".
It was no longer marked Boot or System though.
All I had to do was right click and change it as I show in Snip.

Anyway when I got "D" set to just "Primary" it quit indexing.
This did slow the SSD down a bit.

Storage is just "Primary" which I know you know but like me did you double check it?
If that isn't the problem I'm not sure what it is.
Mike

Thanks Mike, I'll take a look and see.