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    mSata Drive Problems

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by hyelton, Dec 31, 2012.

  1. hyelton

    hyelton Notebook Consultant

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    Okay so I finaly gave up and bought one. Well Anyway Having issues dont know what it is Things seem faster they do! BUT While running PlayOnline which is DOWNLOADING NOT installing Final Fantasy XI online game to my 750GB 7200 Hard drive I cant play My world of warcraft or even something simple as draging an Icon around would be LAGGY whenever using my other hard drive. Why is that?? Windows is installed on my Msata. Also I ran a Benchmark The left is from the Manufacturers Site and the right is the one Mine Benchmarked at why is some of it really low?

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    Also the reason why I posted here is cause My Laptop is a MSI GE60 but didnt know where to post this
     
    hyelton, Dec 31, 2012
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  2. WhatsThePoint

    WhatsThePoint Notebook Virtuoso

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    You will notice that the manufacturer benchmarked the mSATA with no data installed on it,0%.

    It was in all probability benchmarked from a different boot drive that was in safe mode.

    Your drive is 79% full and you most likely benchmarking while it's the boot drive in use.

    Going over 50% full for many SSDs mean a substantial performance hit.

    Find SSD reviewers that also test dirty drives.Some reviewers just want to make the product look good and not anger the manufacturer so they only test clean drives.

    "After all.. what good is having a "top speed" rated drive if you can only achieve those speeds when its tested as an empty"

    A larger capacity mSATA SSD would have been better.
     
    WhatsThePoint, Dec 31, 2012
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  3. hyelton

    hyelton Notebook Consultant

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    Yea, I only really wanted it for OS Use. I know the fuller the slow, But I was just worried there might be something wrong. Does my benchmark look okay? though?
     
    hyelton, Dec 31, 2012
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    hyelton Notebook Consultant

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    Still Does not explain why my SYSTEM gets VERY LAGGY when accessing or installing things on the 7200RPM hard drive while running windows on the MSATA
     
    hyelton, Jan 4, 2013
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  5. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    Do you know the brand/model of the mSATA SSD? (Doesn't really matter at 79% full, just curious at this point).

    The reason it gets laggy is because it is trying to do GC and/or TRIM in the background - as you're using it.

    I don't think I could use a system that was as slow as you describe (not the benchmark - the 'even when dragging an icon around' comment).

    To get the performance back to where it should be (you're much below HDD speeds here... - again, not benchmarks - real world use), you probably need to Secure Erase it and install your O/S and programs/games all over again.


    To see this effect graphically, look at the last graph on this link and click the Plextor M5 PRO (either of the two links).

    See:
    AnandTech - Corsair Neutron & Neutron GTX: All Capacities Tested


    And note that 'most' of the data points are along the bottom horizontal axis - even when over-provisioned by 25%...


    Yours is a good example of why we 'need' over-provisioning in SSD's via 'unallocated' space vs. just 'free' space.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Jan 5, 2013
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