SSD Slowness

[Santa]

make sure the SSD is not being defraged - win 7 by default will run a defrag job on all drives

Windows 7 doesn't defrag ssd drives by default.

[d0z3rr]

Win7 disables all the prefetch/superfetch/defrag automatically when it detects a SSD.

[HPAVC]

Win7 disables all the prefetch/superfetch/defrag automatically when it detects a SSD.

Depends if he has this raided or similar encapsulated, many raid setups and drivers obfuscate TRIM and other features. Making a SSD setup horrible and will damage SSD's.

[Mukade]

If Windows 7 automatically does all those things when it detects an SSD, then why did I have to switch them all over manually, and why are so many people making guides like this where it says to do it manually?

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...l=1#post442158

[Santa]

If Windows 7 automatically does all those things when it detects an SSD, then why did I have to switch them all over manually, and why are so many people making guides like this where it says to do it manually?

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...l=1#post442158

Windows disables defrag for ssd drives and it is also supposed to disable superfetch and prefetch for ssd drives fast enough. However this (disabling superfetch/prefetch) doesnt work properly in current versions of Windows 7. Hopefully it will be fixed in future servicepacks.

As for why are so many people making guides about things they don't really know anything about. I don't know? Ignorance is a bliss I guess.

[tallone2]

from a hardware/product support view - i think its great that ocz has the information available and suggestions on what there equipment needs to run - and things to check (manual or auto settings), whether the OS does it manually or not.

i'm not 100% sure on how i got to seeing the defrag on for my SSD. I've since moved to a boot ssd drive and a larger game ssd drive and both of those by default have had the defrag off (clean install of win 7 pro X64). very few things are simple plug N play when performance is a factor.