ssd issue

[biscuit13]

so I bought an SSD yesterday and it was a 240gb SanDisk SSD and it was 80$. when I got home and put it on my desktop and tried to clone my os to it from a hard drive with only held my windows a few other applications about 120gb. my SSD wouldn't work and it was rea and write speeds were completely horrible. I'm talking about 50mb read and write. my HDDs do more than double that speed and on the package, it said 530mbs of reading and writing. my desktop isn't bad either I built it 2 years ago and I game on it daily. also, the SSD would never boot. the hard drive would but the SSD wouldn't. I'm just wondering if i got very unlucky or this is a common thing

[knightslugger]

2 minutes ago, biscuit13 said:

tried to clone my os to it from a hard drive

because cloning works SO WELL, right cloning fans?

 

wipe it clean and reinstall.

[H20Burner]

Hmmm thats weird. If you were copying files over, I would blame it on small files. But your cloning which just reads the hdd and writes all at once. Did you try to benchmark it?

[biscuit13]

tried that and it crashed again...and again..and again until i took out the ssd then it worked just fine

 

 

[biscuit13]

i did kinda benchmark before i moved the os onto it i moved a game about 10 gb onto it to make sure it was working and wow was it slow at it then booting the game was like 4 minutes long and it was just rocket league

 

[biscuit13]

also how did you get your system specs on there because i can tell you the specs of my pc

 

[TheGlenlivet]

Just to clarify, you are seeing the low speeds during normal use, or during the cloning process?  Cloning can go really slow, depending on the software.

[Mira Yurizaki]

Boot into the HDD, reformat the SSD, then run some basic tests like copying a large file to it or use CrystalDiskMark to benchmark it.

 

If it's still slow or having a problem, then the SSD's at fault.

[H20Burner]

1 minute ago, biscuit13 said:

i moved a game about 10 gb onto it to make sure it was working and wow was it slow

 

Thats normal. Small files slow you down.

[biscuit13]

i tried that also yesterday i was working on it for like 5 hours trying to get it to work and watched like 50 videos about it on youtube and it was during just using it to launch rocket league was very slow

 

 

[biscuit13]

i mean 10gb isnt really that small

[biscuit13]

not big but not tiny

 

[biscuit13]

if i move it from one hard drive to the other its alteast 100mb

[biscuit13]

ssd though will only do like 50mb

[Mira Yurizaki]

At this point, the SSD is probably a dud.

[biscuit13]

i returned it just i was wondering though if i just got unlucky or what?