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Over the last week my computers being taking an abnormally long time to start and launch programs, and I was wondering if the SSD is dead or dying?

Its a Corsair Force LS 60GB, with 27GB free, the partition aligned correctly and a spotless smart status. I've had it for about 6 months now and its only ever been used as a boot drive, and a fresh re-install of Windows 7 or XP doesn't improve the speed. The SSD is actually doing everything slow than my 1TB WD Blue, which is my storage drive, and I do have a 240G OCZ Arc 100 that I could replace it with, but it was intended as an upgrade from its 100GB HDD (I could use a slightly better 320GB HDD in it if need be btw)

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crystaldiskmark and crystaldiskinfo will tell you everything you need to know

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If it's slowing down, but you've reformatted it. I would assume it's dying

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you should make sure to enable trim and stop windows from trying to defragment it. defragmenting SSDs makes them perform badly and shortens their lifespan. If none of this has been done to the drive, then it looks like your SSD is becoming an SSDead.

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you should make sure to enable trim and stop windows from trying to defragment it. defragmenting SSDs makes them perform badly and shortens their lifespan. If none of this has been done to the drive, then it looks like your SSD is becoming an SSDead.

Ensuring trim was enabled, disabling; defragmenting, superfetch, prefetch, hibernation were the first things I did. I planned everything well before I bought the SSD, though I think I made a really bad choice in what I bought.

crystaldiskmark and crystaldiskinfo will tell you everything you need to know

200MB/sec write, 29MB/sec write. And that's after a fresh install of Windows with all of the post install tweaks.

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200MB/sec write, 29MB/sec write. And that's after a fresh install of Windows with all of the post install tweaks.

Those write speeds are extremely bad

Does crystaldiskinfo tell you the SSD health?

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Those write speeds are extremely bad

Does crystaldiskinfo tell you the SSD health?

I used the disk utility on my Lubuntu live CD, the SMART status hasn't changed since I bought it.

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Well if it was dead, your system wouldn't boot.

A dead SSD to me = slower overall than my WD Blue.

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