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SSD mini-lockups?
Hi! I have a Samsung 256GB SSD with TRIM on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I am using Microsoft's AHCI drivers (only ones that support TRIM so far) and have aligned my SSD partition.
However, my SSD as of late seems to be having some mini-lockups. You could almost call it stuttering, but it only happens once and then it's over.
It happens at two different places.
1. Firefox (and my add-on Download Statusbar) scan all downloaded files right after they are downloaded. I am using Microsoft's Security Essentials (updated and all) for my AV and MSE itself scans these files.
As soon as I download a file, say larger than 3MB, my laptop hangs for about 2 seconds. The larger the file, the longer the hang. I think it hung for 8 seconds on a 1GB file. It's not just Firefox that hangs, but all open applications. Say I'm typing a Word document and a large file finishes downloading and the scan begins. Word instantly locks up. I can move the mouse and click, but I get that annoying "fade out to white" and a cute 'Not responding' title if I try to do anything with any open programs. This all goes away after the scan finishes.
2. Accessing a folder with more than 50 files with different icons. I thought SSDs had good random access! What is this?! My Downloads folder has 56 items: about 25 folders and about 31 files. These 31 files have 8-10 different icons. Every time when I first try to hover over this folder in the Start Menu, it takes like 5-6 seconds for the icons to appear. In this lapse, all of Explorer.exe is dead: can't click anything in the start menu, the time, my taskbar, icons on the taskbar, etc.
After I do it the first time, though, it caches all the icons and no more hangs. But why does it happen the first time?
I have TRIM on (AHCI mode), aligned my partitions, emptied my Recycle Bin, am using MS' AHCI driver, and I've only used 51.1GB on my 256GB drive.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
~Ibrahim~
P.S. This drive *does* have hardware encryption/decryption, but on SSDs that was "supposed" to have a negligible impact....