SSD Issue after initializing "OPTIMIZE DRIVE"

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Intel® SSD 530 Series - 180GB

For some odd reason it causes my system to slow down significantly shortly after I perform the command. It doesn't matter if I use the intel toolbox, or the windows feature itself to trim my SSD.
I just need confirmation of whether or not this is normal for SSD's and if I should be concerned about it. It's been doing that ever since I got it day 1, 2 years ago almost. I never thought about it being an issue, but recently I've been trying to track down what causes FPS skips in my games, and I'm narrowing it down slowly.

After the trim command is ran, everything becomes really sluggish for like 1-2 minutes. For instance, clicking on my start button takes 10-15 seconds to show up the menu. Clicking the Shut Down Menu button on the bottom left also takes at least that amount of time to show up the sub-menu. After a while all goes back to normal.

I appreciate your answers, and hope to see a solution for this matter. Again, I only need to know if this is caused by a faulty SSD or if it's only natural for SSD's to behave like this after trimming.

 
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mazboy
Stop doing the manual TRIM. All you're doing is moving stuff around on the SSD, for no reason. This is why everything slows up for a few minutes: the SSD is resetting itself.

Here's a big duh: Win10 will handle your SSD better than you ever will be able to manually. Leave it alone. The only time you need to worry about SSD performance is when it dies (and there will be plenty of indication) or when it starts approaching 90% full. That would be the first thing I'd check, especially given the small size of your SSD.

It is unlikely that your SSD is causing you to drop frames in your games. You might want to check your RAM utilization for that, or your GPU (driver the most recent? Is the GPU old and itself wearing out?).
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Stop doing the manual TRIM. All you're doing is moving stuff around on the SSD, for no reason. This is why everything slows up for a few minutes: the SSD is resetting itself.

Here's a big duh: Win10 will handle your SSD better than you ever will be able to manually. Leave it alone. The only time you need to worry about SSD performance is when it dies (and there will be plenty of indication) or when it starts approaching 90% full. That would be the first thing I'd check, especially given the small size of your SSD.

It is unlikely that your SSD is causing you to drop frames in your games. You might want to check your RAM utilization for that, or your GPU (driver the most recent? Is the GPU old and itself wearing out?).
 
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Thanks for the info. I needed this !
 
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This is exactly what I needed to know. Thank you very much!

On the fps-skip topic. I get VERY smooth gameplay. I regularly install the latest GPU drivers and use DDU for the uninstall. I've always thought it would be the RAM because it happens on certain in-game events. For let's say league of legends, sometimes it happens right when people die, when First blood is drawn, or when an animation / asset or whatever is seen / loaded for the first time. It also happens in old games like Diablo 2 (even though that might be just poorly optimized game for Win10) just by walking around and advancing in new zones. It's like a 0.5 sec stutter. If I turn Vsync on and cap the frame rates on 144, it says it drops down to like 120-130 at the moment of the drop. If I go to 60 refresh rate with vsync or cap fps at 60, it drops to like 50 at the time of the stutter. It's always about the same percentage, but maybe it practically drops down to 0 but the frame rate display cannot catch that so quickly. I just did a fresh windows 10 installation and I don't think it's a software issue anymore. I've also done RAM diagnostics, and it all seems to be fine. I wonder if it could be my motherboard. Again, thanks for the advice! I'd be happy if you can point at some specialist that may have a clue as to what is going on here.
p.s. sorry for my English, it's not my first language.
 
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You don't say how much RAM you have installed, but this sounds very much like not-enough-RAM. 8GB seems to be the bare minimum these days, and everybody says 16GB makes them much happier. Alas, given the price of RAM...
 
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Ok I have done some tests, Installed League of Legends on my 10 year old HDD that I only use for storage, and the game doesn't have these fps dips. I feel like there is some background W10 processes that happen, and at those times the SSD chokes for a sec of processing and that influences the game. Can you please give some insight ? The W10 install is fresh and I have nothing on it except league. Can it still be a ram issue ?

BTW I have 8 GB of RAM (Corsair Vengeance) So I don't think it should have issues running old games and League of legends ( which takes like 1.5 GB max)
 
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