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Upgraded dying HDD to SSD and now things are slower.
So yesterday i noticed that my Seagate 750GB HDD was starting to go out. So i ran to Best Buy and picked up a 1TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD to replace it. I used Acronis Disk Director 12 to clone the drive. Since the SSD was brand new I had to initialize the disk first. I chose Basic MBR. and since the SSD was larger than the source drive i opted to go with proportional volume resizing. never selected that option before but I felt it was the best option. I'm not sure how long the process was supposed to take but it was like 3.5 - 4 hours. i had the SSD installed in the laptop second drive bay and the HDD in a USB 3.0 enclosure kit plugged into a SS USB port. after the process completed 4 or so hours later i unplugged the enclosure kit from the laptop and rebooted. When i bought my first SSD for this laptop and cloned it, there was a massive noticeable difference all around. Boot speed greatly increased, Installation timed dropped dramatically, and overall system performance was amazing. i can't say i experienced the same with this upgrade. I'm still debating doing a brand new windows 10 install on the Samsung 1TB and running the 500GB crucial as my storage drive. Just hasn't happened yet. But anyways i don't see a performance/speed change at all and actually it seems to be running slower. Opening folders and performing installations actually feels laggy to me. I'm not quite sure what could be causing this. You would think that something as easy as navigating drives and folders would actually be lightning F****** fast after the upgrade. I wondering if maybe i did something wrong? Or maybe there is a BIOS setting that i need to change in order for my SSD to operate properly. If you guys have any thoughts or advise or need any additional info please reach out to me. I run my company on this Laptop so it kind of needs to work properly, especially for QuickBooks. Thanks in advance.