Samsung EVO 840 is not very fast?! Help please!

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NickV96

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Hello,

I've purchased my first SSD yesterday. I had some trouble installing my OS on it at first, but now I have it working fine. The startup is extremely fast, but I have a problem;


My startup programs still take around 10 seconds to start, whilst they start instantly on other ssd's. Also, when I shut down my PC, it still takes as long as when I shut it down using an HDD (which is around 5-7 seconds) I should be able to shut it down within 2 seconds, right? I am pretty dissapointed with the performance I am getting thus far.

I have the SSD connected to a 6Gbp/s SATAIII port with AHCI mode enabled. I have watched serveral video's on YouTube and the SSD's of those people were just so fast and mine really isn't. I find it pretty strange, as my seq. reading is around 4600MB/s and seq. write is around 3686MB/s. I would like some advice as to how to increase my SSD's performance.


Have a good one! :)



Edit: I have Rapid Mode enabled, and also turned off Hibernation mode and manually set the size of the pagefile.
 
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frag06

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Can you list your full system specs? And what were the problems you were having when installing Windows?
 
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NickV96

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ASUS Z87-A
Intel Core i5-4760k (3.4Ghz, stockspeed)
Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 @ 1600Mhz (XMP profile)
ASUS GeForce GTX 770 OC
Western Digital Black 1TB HDD
Samsung EVO 840 120GB
Corsair CS650M psu
Windows 8.1


When I put in my SSD I formatted it within Windows (GPT format), because Windows 8 never wanted to install on any other format in my experience. It kept saying "Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style." I thought this was pretty weird. I've ran my DVD drive to UEFI mode (no results), I've used diskpart - which got rid of the error but gave me another one! I then ran my DVD drive trough normal function again and got to the same error. My last option was detach the harddrive, and that worked. It finally installed. Now however, though, my SSD has shit performance compared to others.
 
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NickV96

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Uhm no. Like I said, this is my first SSD. The readspeeds are somewhat solid now, and I think I may have fixed the slow shutdown problem. When I disable Hibernation mode using "powercfg -h off" it takes longer for my PC to shut down. When Hibernation mode is enabled, and thus creating a hibersys file, it shuts down faster. I have no clue why.
 
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NickV96

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Yeah I know, but how is it shutting down faster when Hibernation mode is enabled? I don't use Hibernation, but Shutdown or Sleep.
 
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