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Strange Samsung 830 ssd problem

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  • Seagate
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June 26, 2012 6:14:52 PM

Hello there, I recently purchased a Samsung 830, 128gb ssd & have encountered a rather unusual problem. I have two storage drives in my computer, the Samsung & a Seagate 7200rpm 3TB hdd. I'm using ahci mode & as-ssd gives perfectly healthy results, 468MB/s read, 302MB/s write.

My problem, however, is that I cannot unrar rar files from the Samsung to the Seagate. I can unrar onto the Samsung from itself but not to a separate drive. It either freezes up or takes ages to complete the process.

I have established the drive causing the problem is the Samsung. I previously had an OCZ agility 3. (The rar files were 1.5gb altogether & unrared to an image file of 1.5gb, so no decompression was taking place.) The OCZ unrared these files to the Seagate in about 9 secs.

The Samsung chokes every time I attempt the same process. Anyone else experienced similar problems or have an explanation of this weird phenomenon? Many thanks!

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June 27, 2012 8:31:14 PM

I'm considering getting an OCZ Vertex 4. Can any Vertex 4 owners please let me know if it also has this weird unraring to separate drive problem. Cheers.
July 6, 2012 12:15:33 PM

I managed to solve this myself. I was actually tackling another problem but the solution turned out to be the same for both. Windows was not acting normally when installed on the Samsung drive. Nothing major but little hiccups here & there. The WEI score would vary between 5.9 on a bad day & 7.9 on a good. The hour glass would appear on operations where it shouldn't & right click would stop working. Gremlins, basically.

I had been using the msahci driver which installs with windows. So, I replaced this with the amdsata driver from my motherboard's website & this cured all strange behaviour. SSD read spead increased by 12MB/s but Seagate read/write went down by 14MB/s. However, a small price to pay for finally getting the Samsung to behave normally. :-)
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