- May 27, 2013
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So I have two SSDs and a HDD. 120GB SSD for my os, 2TH HDD for storage, and a 60GB SSD for my Lightroom Raw photos and Lightroom catalog.
The 60GB SSD is REALLY slow at sorting files and showing thumbnails. I have the exact same folders on my HDD (a copy, about 30GB) and it's much faster at sorting the files. When I set Windows Explorer to 'Details' and, say, sort by size, it takes about 4 minutes to do it. Whereas the HDD does it in 1 or 2 seconds.
When I open both folders together the HDD is much faster at displaying the icons too. What the hell?
I have both set up the same.. Indexing, ahci, etc and the SSD is working fine for everything else, eg it will copy and paste a 1GB file in about a second, so I don't think there's anything wrong with the drive itself.
Once it sorts itself it works fine, but if I close the folder and open it takes ages to load again. It's like Windows is scanning the whole drive, really slowly. It's only using about 1% of the drive speed doing this, and explorer is using 10%-20% cpu during the process.
Granted there's a few thousand photos in there, but if that was the cause then why is the HDD much faster at doing the exact same process?
I've trimmed, checked for errors, rebuilt the index, turned on and off indexing, etc, but no change..
Any thoughts would be appreciated..
The 60GB SSD is REALLY slow at sorting files and showing thumbnails. I have the exact same folders on my HDD (a copy, about 30GB) and it's much faster at sorting the files. When I set Windows Explorer to 'Details' and, say, sort by size, it takes about 4 minutes to do it. Whereas the HDD does it in 1 or 2 seconds.
When I open both folders together the HDD is much faster at displaying the icons too. What the hell?
I have both set up the same.. Indexing, ahci, etc and the SSD is working fine for everything else, eg it will copy and paste a 1GB file in about a second, so I don't think there's anything wrong with the drive itself.
Once it sorts itself it works fine, but if I close the folder and open it takes ages to load again. It's like Windows is scanning the whole drive, really slowly. It's only using about 1% of the drive speed doing this, and explorer is using 10%-20% cpu during the process.
Granted there's a few thousand photos in there, but if that was the cause then why is the HDD much faster at doing the exact same process?
I've trimmed, checked for errors, rebuilt the index, turned on and off indexing, etc, but no change..
Any thoughts would be appreciated..
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