Need help with SSD performance

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overclockedpc

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It's not the typical "it should be faster" thread.

I have a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB drive that started off fast, worked flawlessly and now, only 2 months later, and very suddenly, has slowed to a crawl. Opening programs sometimes takes minutes for something as simple as Firefox.

Anyone have any ideas? I obviously didn't bench with all three programs at the same time and I ended up aborting the AS SSD because it was taking forever and I'm on my way out.
I hope to have some ideas waiting for me when I get back.

Thanks in advance :D

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Did you install RAPID? If so disable that to see if this fixes the problem.
 
overclockedpc said:
Strangely, I solved the problem by moving the ssd from port 1 to port 2 on the mobo...
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Possibly a Sata port going out?
It could even be some software that has been configured for a drive on that port.
(Actually had that problem a while ago after the replacement motherboard did the same thing on the same port.)
 
Hey, you wouldn't happen to have one of the original Intel 6-series H67/P67 motherboards, would you? (This affected boards made by companies other than Intel.)

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4143/

So, tell us exactly which motherboard you have. Model number, and revision number which should be printed on the board itself.
 
The board is older... It's a GIgabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P v1.0. AMD 790X chipset. Unfortunately, my 840evo is really bottlenecked by both the sata3 and the AMD chipset. I'm planning a move to an i5 platform soon (cheap and good enough for me). I just need to research intel chipsets and find what suits my needs in a best bang for the buck scenario.
 
Did you try something as simple as using a new SATA cable? My 840 Evo was getting all funky, boot times went from 15ish seconds to 30+, frequent BSODs that I at first attributed to overclocking, and I was getting crappy benchmarks like above (when they didn't hang completely)

On a hunch I swapped out the SATA cable that I think came from an ABIT AT8 32x mobo I bought in 2005 or 2006 with something I bought this decade. Problem solved. :)
 
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