etiennedefqvx Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Hello, I just bought another SSD, the Corsair Nova II SSD 60GB. I installed it on my new rig (H55N-USB3, i3 530, 8GB DDR3, GTX460, ...) and installed W7 x64 on it with a Samsung HDD for storage. First feeling : It's not my first SSD but it seems to be very slow, sometimes I'm having some kinds of freezs, for example I just want to open a new tab into Google chrome and it can take more than 30" !! I decided to make a test, and here's the result without any other task, in full IDLE mode : http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/4432/31aot20112213.png You can compare this result with the Samsung HDD, you will see that apparently the Sata ports are running correctly according to this result : http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/4227/31aot20112213hddok.png To run a game, even not a "hard" one like Call of Duty World at War, this can take several minutes :mad: This is not my first SSD, and it's the first time I'm having one running that slow ... I've installe all intel required drivers, all drivers for my motherboard, updated the bios and set as AHCI in the bios. Stock system or overclocked, same results. Any solutions ? I haven't seen any firmware update ... ? Do I have to RMA ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Did you Secure erase it when you installed Windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etiennedefqvx Posted September 1, 2011 Author Share Posted September 1, 2011 No it was a hole new SSD, I did not know that I had to ... Whith which sofware am I supposed to do it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Here is the tutorial http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=85344 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatdamaged Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 He has a brand new SSD. Why on earth would he have to go through that guide? I own 5 SSDs and i have never had to do anything like that. Certainly not when they are brand new either! You pop the drive in, install Windows and you're done Does anyone at Corsair actually know why these Nova 2 drives perform so poorly? I've yet to see an answer about what is quite obviously a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etiennedefqvx Posted September 2, 2011 Author Share Posted September 2, 2011 Thank's somewhatdamaged, I agree with you ! I'd even add that according to Corsair themselves, you don't have to do anything to get good performances except setting IDE mode to AHCI in the Bios (what i've done). I think this drive is damaged / non working. It's really awfull, it took me more than five minutes to open a 1.5MB Pdf file and 5 minutes to shutdown W7 (no updates installation, just a normal shutdown). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorpionri Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Try RMAing the drive. Some other Nova2 users seem to have done that, but AFAIK they didn't post back to say if the replacement fixed the issues they had ( or maybe they just didn't get the replacements yet ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etiennedefqvx Posted September 2, 2011 Author Share Posted September 2, 2011 Ok, I'll do so. I already bought a OOO / CCC / ZZZ replacement disk, it seems that they are less bugging :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojzi Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Same issues but I've RMA'd mine today. I'll report when I get my replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 Ok, I'll do so. I already bought a ******** replacement disk, it seems that they are less bugging :/As per the rules of the forum please do not go around the filter, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etiennedefqvx Posted September 3, 2011 Author Share Posted September 3, 2011 Sorry, but althought this is supposed to be a forum to help users & owners, I figured that no one from Corsair staff is answering ... I'll go directly to the RMA, because Corsair does not seems to talk about this problem :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etiennedefqvx Posted September 3, 2011 Author Share Posted September 3, 2011 Totally agree with you ... this forum is really useless, no one's giving us answers and neither helping us. I bought my new drive, this is incredibly better, the system is doing task up to 60x faster (booting and shutdowning, launching internet browser ...). I'll RMA this one, and maybe throw like garbadge because it is all this SSD is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Test it with ATTO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marco74 Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Hello Hd Thune my Corsair nova http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/794653HdThuneCorsairNova.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etiennedefqvx Posted September 4, 2011 Author Share Posted September 4, 2011 @Toasted : The disk isn't working fine, this is a fact. So no need to test it anymore, in pratic it doesn't work ... (i've changed the disk for another one from another brand, don't want to reinstall windows to test it again :/) @Marco74 : I've got the 60GB, you got the 64. Anyway, I did'nt say that each drive is freezing, I said mine was. I asked a RMA this morning. I'll keep you in touch throught this htread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebanab Posted November 1, 2011 Share Posted November 1, 2011 Hello , Did you get a replacement SSD now? Is the problem still there? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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