So I just ot a new SSD drive. I got the RiData drive 64GB 130 read/ 90 write. I reinstalled Win7 on it and I notice something right away. If the OS is busy doing something like installing a program or Windows updates it makes everytihg else very slow and jerky. Just logging into GameSpot while its installing updates the browser is freezing up as I try to type my login ID. When its just doing one thing it seems VERY fast but when its busy doing something else that is read/write intisive it slows everything else down. My old 7200rpm drive never did this and I would hammer it doing 10 things at once while installing updates etc. Is this normal? Is it my SSD? Or did I just get a screewed up install of Win7?
You're SSD drive is a fairly old version, and it doesn't support many features in new SSD drives, such as TRIM. From what I understand, that's the large reason why your performance isn't top notch.
You're SSD drive is a fairly old version, and it doesn't support many features in new SSD drives, such as TRIM. From what I understand, that's the large reason why your performance isn't top notch.
Luminouslight
This isnt just perfomance not being "top notch" its down right faulty. Almost un unusable. And New Egg is selling a TON of these drives as well as a lot of older slower models than my RIDATA. If it was just an issue of it being a little out of date I would think tons and tons of people that have bought them would be complaining about it freesing apps too.
Hmmm... What are your other specs? Additionally, did you make sure that if you have windows 7 that you turned off the disk defragmentater if it hasn't done so automatically.
This article on Tom's explains exactly what I'm getting - "First, the Jmicron JMF602 controller only has a 16 KB of onboard cache. That's barely enough to do anything. Contrary to this, the controller that Intel uses, the PC29AS21A blows the Jmicron controller out of the water with 256 KB of cache. The Intel controller also has significantly better wear leveling and write combining algorithms. During heavy use, the Jmicron controller will literally choke on incoming data, and consequently report back to the operating system that it's buffers are filled and writes and reads need to be queued up. This puts a hold on incoming and outgoing disk I/O, causing applications to hiccup and hang while the controller chugs along. Worst, the performance degrades significantly over time as the drive is used."
NewEgg is so awesome. That drive I bought had a "no return" policy on it but I called and explained what a piece of crap it is and they are going to give me a full refund with no restocking fee!
Thank you NewEgg!
And I learned the hard way... DONT BY AN SSD WITH a Jmicron controller!!!!! They are beyond crap!!
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