Daskid Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Hi all, I recently purchased the Nova V32 32Gb SSD and installed Win7 on it. I followed the sticky for Win7 tips and tweaks, thinking that it would help improve the performance. Now, whilst the drive boots up faster than my previously installed 500Gb 5400rpm HDD, the speed is the same while browsing the internet (ie opening new tabs, windows and logging into websites) and opening a few programs (ie microsoft office). I have an Asus UL30A-X5 and I installed a 16Gb SD card to make it as my temp/data drive (ie D:\Temp as stated in the sticky) to prevent frequent file access to the SSD. Question is, do I have a bad SSD? Or do I need to upgrade a firmware to make it faster? Or is it just naturally slow? Do I need to get my money back instead? It met my expectations on the boot times, but failed on the actual usage of the operating system. Any thoughts? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E46Johnny Posted October 3, 2010 Share Posted October 3, 2010 Many laptops only uses SATA 1 speeds to save the battery. To get full performance from most SSD you need at least SATA 2 = 3gbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daskid Posted October 4, 2010 Author Share Posted October 4, 2010 Oh I see. So it's pretty useless for me to buy an SSD then? Btw, how can I tell if my laptop uses SATA I or II? I can't find the answer online. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted October 4, 2010 Share Posted October 4, 2010 Ask the manufacturer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 4, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 4, 2010 Please run ATTO and post a screen shot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daskid Posted October 4, 2010 Author Share Posted October 4, 2010 Please run ATTO and post a screen shot! Here you go: http://zhost.tk/u/br/atto_test_1.jpg http://zhost.tk/u/na/cdm_test_1.jpg http://zhost.tk/u/u9/hdtune_test_1.jpg What do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daskid Posted October 4, 2010 Author Share Posted October 4, 2010 And this is right after I repartitioned the SSD with Win7 instead of XP: http://zhost.tk/u/sv/atto_test_2.jpg http://zhost.tk/u/b5/cdm_test_2.jpg http://zhost.tk/u/be/hdtune_test_2.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 5, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 5, 2010 The Nova 32 drives are rated at 195 MB/s sequential read and 70 MB/s sequential write so you are right on with the performance it looks to be running fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daskid Posted October 5, 2010 Author Share Posted October 5, 2010 I see. Good to know there's nothing wrong with the drive. Thanks RAM GUY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 5, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 5, 2010 NP Please let me know if you have any more questions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daskid Posted October 5, 2010 Author Share Posted October 5, 2010 Will do thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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