- Jul 16, 2013
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[OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 -bit]
I own the Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB SATA III MLC SSD. Now, I haven't noticed much of a performance boost in Windows, which is the whole reason I bought the drive, for a more snappy experience. When I benchmark the drive, I get about 5x the performance numbers, but I don't realize that within the OS. I'm wondering if that's just me or there is something wrong with that. I know just saying "I haven't noticed any boost" isn't that scientific / quantifiable, so sorry. Any help?
Also, the boot time isn't much improved over my 1TB HDD. My motherboard is the ASUS M5A97, if you wanted to know about the splash screen, it's not too long. The weird thing is, after the Windows animation is complete, the screen goes dark, then comes back on. Now I haven't tested the boot times recently on this SSD, but last time it was about 30 seconds to get to the log-in screen... 30 SECONDS! I've looked up boot videos of people getting 19-ish seconds on this SSD. If you know any reason for this, please tell me. I don't want to disable the ASUS splash screen though. I'm wondering if maybe there is something you can tell me specific to change in the SATA configuration in the BIOS, or something else like that. One weird bit of information: When I look under "Boot Priorities" Boot option #1 is the SSD, and it says #2 is disabled, I did this for faster boot times, so it doesn't check for another drive. But, when I go under "Hard drive BBS Priotities" the SSD is #1 and the HDD is #2, and if I disable #2 and reboot, I get the "insert proper media device" error. I can hear the hard drive turn on when I boot. Any fixes you can tell me of?
I own the Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB SATA III MLC SSD. Now, I haven't noticed much of a performance boost in Windows, which is the whole reason I bought the drive, for a more snappy experience. When I benchmark the drive, I get about 5x the performance numbers, but I don't realize that within the OS. I'm wondering if that's just me or there is something wrong with that. I know just saying "I haven't noticed any boost" isn't that scientific / quantifiable, so sorry. Any help?
Also, the boot time isn't much improved over my 1TB HDD. My motherboard is the ASUS M5A97, if you wanted to know about the splash screen, it's not too long. The weird thing is, after the Windows animation is complete, the screen goes dark, then comes back on. Now I haven't tested the boot times recently on this SSD, but last time it was about 30 seconds to get to the log-in screen... 30 SECONDS! I've looked up boot videos of people getting 19-ish seconds on this SSD. If you know any reason for this, please tell me. I don't want to disable the ASUS splash screen though. I'm wondering if maybe there is something you can tell me specific to change in the SATA configuration in the BIOS, or something else like that. One weird bit of information: When I look under "Boot Priorities" Boot option #1 is the SSD, and it says #2 is disabled, I did this for faster boot times, so it doesn't check for another drive. But, when I go under "Hard drive BBS Priotities" the SSD is #1 and the HDD is #2, and if I disable #2 and reboot, I get the "insert proper media device" error. I can hear the hard drive turn on when I boot. Any fixes you can tell me of?
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