I bought an SSD a week or so back - my first; and the performance is nowhere near what I expected, so I'm wondering if it's something I've done wrong or if it really is that slow.
Samsung SSD 840, 250GB; it has 23.2GB set aside for over provisioning.
The Magician performance test gives 524MB/s seq. read & 257MB/s seq. write.
My problem - why is Windows boot still taking as long as it did when I had was using an HDD? I know this isn't a high-end SSD, but still.
Looked into it and it seems I need me a reinstall since I hadn't enabled EFI mode for setup. Meh, too much shit on it already, almost have to scroll down when uninstalling stuff.
It's because of partition alignment, UEFI requires partitions to be aligned.
It should work on BIOS mode as well, as long as the disk is SATA, has no partitions, and you choose to install on the unallocated space. This way Windows creates the partitions and aligns them if appropiate.
google for BootTimer.exe, and then download it from a trusted source and go to properties then check "run this as admin.."
and compare boot time when changing settings, SSD on laptop have a great impact, i'd read a comparison between win7 & win8 to see that boot time went down from 27 to 18 (in test setup), that is still too much, cause last time i checked my laptop's bootup time it was under 10 seconds (9.9xx) without tweaking too much..
(Power User) at 2013-07-27 14:38:40 (19 hours ago) - [
