My PNY CS1311 240GB SSD IS getting very slow speeds!

AwesomeSauce227

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I built a new PC a few months ago, and I got a PNY CS1311 240GB SSD. Its never been fast since I got it, and it only gets worse... Right now its taking almost a minute to boot windows 7, and I am sometimes only getting 10 MB/S write speeds! i've used all the performance tutorials but nothing has worked!!! Please help!!

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It's really up to how much you want to spend. Keep in mind that if you change your motherboard you'll need to do a complete fresh install of Windows and everything else. Plus you may not see a huge difference in boot time or program loading time going from SATA II to SATA III or IV. The biggest difference there is the maximum throughput on linear read/writes, but doesn't have any huge effect on the random seek time which is the real advantage of an SSD.

JaredDM

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Try running AS SSD benchmark and see what it shows: http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/as_ssd_benchmark.html

Possibly your partition isn't aligned to the 4K sector boundary. This can happen if you cloned a HDD to the SSD instead of doing a fresh install.

Also, you'll want to check that AHCI is enabled in your BIOS (AS Tool will check this for you).

You'll also want to be sure of which channel you're plugged into on your motherboard. Most motherboards have two separate memory controllers and they aren't created equal. Often there will be two SATA ports which are a different color, these are usually the fast ones.

Post a picture of what AS SSD Benchmark finds, and we'll start from that. Also, let us know what motherboard you have.
 

AwesomeSauce227

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Cloned a HDD? I'm not sure I know what that means. I'll open it up later and take a look at the ports.. My mobo is the gigabyte ga-78lmt-s2 which has 6 SATA 2 ports. Here is the result of AS SSD
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JaredDM

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OK, well one issue is obvious from that test. You are running in IDE mode which is designed for old hard drives and doesn't support the advanced features of an SSD. You'll need to enable AHCI in your BIOS in the section about hard drive operation mode. However before you do that you'll need to make a Windows Registry change or you'll get a blue screen on boot. Here's an article which explains the registry fix you need to make: https://www.data-medics.com/data-recovery-blog/how-to-enable-ahci-after-installing-windows/

Also that motherboard only supports up to SATA II, so it's going to be a bit of a bottleneck no matter which port you plug into. I could be wrong, but I think the two ports next to the big power plug are on the primary memory controller and will be nominally faster. Though I doubt it'll make too much difference as it's still SATA II.
 

AwesomeSauce227

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Thats really weird cause in the past I have set it to AHCI! Must of somehow stopped using it.... weird... And I switched SATA ports and it already feels a little quicker. I'll switch to AHCI and get back to you! Thanks!
 

AwesomeSauce227

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Well I enabled AHCI and its sooo much faster :D

Should I upgrade my Mobo to get SATA 3, becasue I got mine for free from a friend and I think I could use a better one :\Well I enabled AHCI and its sooo much faster :D Should I upgrade my Mobo to get SATA 3, becasue I got mine for free from a friend and I think I could use a better one :\

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JaredDM

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It's really up to how much you want to spend. Keep in mind that if you change your motherboard you'll need to do a complete fresh install of Windows and everything else. Plus you may not see a huge difference in boot time or program loading time going from SATA II to SATA III or IV. The biggest difference there is the maximum throughput on linear read/writes, but doesn't have any huge effect on the random seek time which is the real advantage of an SSD.
 
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