Intel X25M G1 - slowdown in benchmarks

[TechHead]

First one was in December, second one on the 12th of this month. First one was with a fresh install of Windows 7, second with a 2 month old install..

Seems like a drastic decrease. System in sig, Probably the only change is an installation of Intel's chipset drivers. Windows boot times are up to 40s from around 20 or so earlier.

How can I fix this?

 

[SicKlown42012]

The G1's don't have TRIM support. Without it, all SSDs get slower after use. The only way to get back to new speed is to use Secure Wipe to reset the drive, and then reinstall everything. You might want to Google the term "Tony Trim", which is supposed to help people that can't use TRIM but my experience with it didn't go so well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=8

 

[sub.mesa]

You should leave some space unused. For example never use 10GB on your 80GB drive.

Unused means that no partition can write to it; i.e. you make a partition 10GB smaller and never write to the unpartitioned space. If you ever did, you first need to wipe the SSD with HDDErase or a zero-write, to reset the write remapping tables.