I pulled one of my old hard drives and things seem a lot faster. Boot times are a lot faster. Anyone know why that would happen? The old HDD was my old Windows partition and it was a very old drive, like 5 years old.

The SSD is connected to a SATAii port, latest x58 Chipset drivers. I just ran an ATTO benchmark and I'm getting 300~ read speeds, so I guess it has fixed itself.

I'm hoping I don't get any stuttering now also. But all I have litterally done is pull out my old hard drive.