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SSD speed troubleshooting

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4 hours ago, Sawa Takahashi said:

It shouldn't happen but sometimes you need to reinstall Windows from scratch instead of cloning a boot drive. There may be some leftover driver bits that conflict with the new hardware and Windows being Windows....

As for the speed, even a WD blue is faster than the interface itself for reads and short bursts of writes. If you are writing large amount of data, you may experience some slowdowns due to the write buffer being full, but that happens with all SSDs.

Hope that helps !

Make sure the new SSD is running in AHCI mode in BIOS, not IDE.
Check with CrystalDiskInfo or similar if the drive is healthy and on the right SATA speed should be SATA III 6Gbps.
Sometimes a bad clone causes Windows to keep indexing or doing background tasks, that can peg disk usage at 100%. A clean Windows install on the new SSD can rule this out.
Also check that you’re on the latest chipset/storage drivers for your motherboard.
 

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so i just get new SSD for my drive c from 250GB crucial MX500 to 1TB WD Blue SATA 2" and i immediately notice that after i clone and replace it, the pc become bit slow at startup and disk active time at 100%. another i recently notice is that the speed is bit slow?
so any suggestion on what happening?

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The PC was slow in booting the first time because you replaced the drive and it had do do a lot of behind the scenes stuff so that it would know that is was there. And the speed may be due to the speed of the new drive being slower.

 

You're probably going to get replies with more details, but that's the 304.8 meter answer.

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It shouldn't happen but sometimes you need to reinstall Windows from scratch instead of cloning a boot drive. There may be some leftover driver bits that conflict with the new hardware and Windows being Windows....

As for the speed, even a WD blue is faster than the interface itself for reads and short bursts of writes. If you are writing large amount of data, you may experience some slowdowns due to the write buffer being full, but that happens with all SSDs.

Hope that helps !

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4 hours ago, Sawa Takahashi said:

It shouldn't happen but sometimes you need to reinstall Windows from scratch instead of cloning a boot drive. There may be some leftover driver bits that conflict with the new hardware and Windows being Windows....

As for the speed, even a WD blue is faster than the interface itself for reads and short bursts of writes. If you are writing large amount of data, you may experience some slowdowns due to the write buffer being full, but that happens with all SSDs.

Hope that helps !

Make sure the new SSD is running in AHCI mode in BIOS, not IDE.
Check with CrystalDiskInfo or similar if the drive is healthy and on the right SATA speed should be SATA III 6Gbps.
Sometimes a bad clone causes Windows to keep indexing or doing background tasks, that can peg disk usage at 100%. A clean Windows install on the new SSD can rule this out.
Also check that you’re on the latest chipset/storage drivers for your motherboard.
 

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