Samsung SSD Slow

BobertTheBob · Nov 29, 2013

I recently built my own system for the first time and I had bought an SSD along with an HDD. But for some reason, the SSD is running incredibly slow, with write speeds under 1 MB/s. I don't know about the read speeds, but they too are insanely low.

- Windows 7 64-Bit
- 1 TB HDD - SATA III
- 120 GB SSD - SATA III
- AMD FX-8320 (Overclocked to 4.3 GHz)
- 16 GB 1866 MHz RAM
- M5A97 LE R 2.0 Motherboard

- I am clueless as to how to fix this. I have already checked for firmware and newer drivers, etc etc. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

babernet_1 · Nov 29, 2013

I have heard that the Samsungs don't work well with AMD processors. Sorry.

laviniuc · Nov 29, 2013

install the samsung magician tool and run a system optimization and see if it helps. and dont listen to babernet. cpu's and ssd-s dont answer to compatibility rules. especially not after some time.

my guess is you have some problems on the ssd setup, the magician will help you pinpoint the problem

babernet_1 · Nov 29, 2013

laviniuc :

I hope it works, but this is cut and pasted from Newegg:

1 out of 5 eggsDoes not work with AMD Boards!!

Pros: Sounded like an awesome, fast drive. But never got it to work.

Cons: As others have stated here, this thing does not work with AMD motherboards. I have the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 board with a Phenom II X4. The BIOS would detect this motherboard, but I could not get Windows XP or Windows 7 to recognize it, and was unsuccessful in installing a fresh copy of Windows 7 on it.

Really disappointing. Wasted a ton of my time with this. What kind of SATA drive is this, if it is not compatible with SATA interfaces on certain motherboards..... This is totally unacceptable. All SATA drives should be compatible with any SATA interface!

laviniuc · Nov 30, 2013

weird... never heard of such an issue.

BobertTheBob · Dec 6, 2013

Thanks for your suggestion, Laviniu Campean. I think I have already tried that, but I'll check to make sure. I honestly don't think that is the problem, no offense. As for an incompatibility issue, it might be the motherboard. I don't know, and I'll check around. It just sucks that I pay almost a dollar per Gig and it writes slower than a DVD drive burns a disc. But, thanks anyways, man(s).

laviniuc · Dec 7, 2013

i saw a nice suggestion in another thread. try to change the cable

laviniuc · Dec 7, 2013

i dont think it's a compatibility issue, btw. maybe the ssd is simply defective?
http://www.ssdready.com/ssdready/

you can use this to check what's writing to it.

the simplest test is to get it on a pc/laptop that's not using an amd board and test there. but i doubt it. there'd be heads rolling if anyone on the amd chipset camp had messed up sata compatibility like this.

BobertTheBob · Dec 23, 2013

I fixed it! It seems that you have to have Windows 7 installed on a separate HARD drive disk, because for some reason, Windows 7 doesn't recognize SSDs as boot-disks, which was what I was trying to do. Windows 7 needs a disk that it can start on, and then when you select which disk you want to run, it boots on that one. But I learned one thing, installing it on the HDD, then on the SSD, and deleting Windows 7 from the HDD or removing the HDD will render your system un-bootable. Don't ask me why. But that doesn't bother me because I heard SSDs can break quite easily (not physically like dropping), and having a backup OS is always good to have around. Thanks for the help, guys/gals.

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