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Secondary HDD performance slowing down - possibly due to altered settings after SSD install 4 months ago?

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October 16, 2014 1:49:11 PM

My Alienware X51 is a very good all-round performer, and has been really nippy ever since I fitted a Samsung 840 SSD in it as the primary drive between 3 and 4 months ago...... I altered a load of settings to prevent any damage to it, as per a load of reputable sites and sources linked from TomsHardware. For example, I disabled defragmentation, and so on.

I have realised after all this time - only since my secondary HDD on its own started to slow down and take twice as long to load photos and videos for example - that I may have applied the new settings for both the SSD AND the HDD. Obviously I need to keep the defrag settings, etc, etc, as they were for the HDD. How do I know if these were altered, and how do I optimise and take care of this secondary 1TB HDD? Surely separate settings entirely are needed compared to my SSD, which still runs like a pro.

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October 16, 2014 2:06:29 PM

emdea22 said:
SSD might not be so "OK". Take a look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSrfOkr5hCc

I keep saying "stay away from samsung".
Be sure its not the ssd before looking into other stuff.


Hi buddy, thanks for the reply. I'm still happy with the SSD - I know what I have installed on that and everything that is runs quickly. All my files though on the HDD take that extra bit longer to load.
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October 16, 2014 2:14:47 PM

emdea22 said:
SSD might not be so "OK". Take a look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSrfOkr5hCc

I keep saying "stay away from samsung".
Be sure its not the ssd before looking into other stuff.


actually this video was really useful.,.... is there a sure way to know quickly (i.e. a test) whether mine is affected?
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17 minutes ago

Just copy files that are at least 4 weeks old (like an old game you haven;t updated) from SSD to another place on the SSD (ie another folder) if the speed is around 100mb/s then its bad. Actually i think all of them have this issue so you can just ignore the test and look at the thread for the fix; i think Samsung released a firmware update.

http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Editorial/Samsung-840-840-...
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