New Crucial M500 seems slow

Hood · Feb 3, 2014

"pciide - bad" means your storage controller is set to IDE mode. SSDs need to run in AHCI mode for best performance. This article - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976 - explains how to change the setting in BIOS and modify the Windows registry so you can boot Windows (without doing a complete re-install in AHCI mode). This is how it should look with proper alignment and the right storage driver enabled (except the storage driver will have a different name on AMD systems) -

Altered · Feb 3, 2014

Oh my I was up till 4AM it had me so irritated. It was bugging me so bad I knew it had to be something simple. In my BIOS there was a 2nd option for SATA and IDE combined that was enabled. So anyway it seems to check out and the performance reflects it. Still not the miricle I was expecting but a damn site faster than a platter drive. I really appreciate all of you folks helping me to keep searching for the answer.

Does this look correct now?

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FX-GMC · Feb 3, 2014

Altered said:
Oh my I was up till 4AM it had me so irritated. It was bugging me so bad I knew it had to be something simple. In my BIOS there was a 2nd option for SATA and IDE combined that was enabled. So anyway it seems to check out and the performance reflects it. Still not the miricle I was expecting but a damn site faster than a platter drive. I really appreciate all of you folks helping me to keep searching for the answer.

Does this look correct now?

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Good catch. Looks good now.

MxPhenom 216 · Feb 3, 2014

Altered said:
Oh my I was up till 4AM it had me so irritated. It was bugging me so bad I knew it had to be something simple. In my BIOS there was a 2nd option for SATA and IDE combined that was enabled. So anyway it seems to check out and the performance reflects it. Still not the miricle I was expecting but a damn site faster than a platter drive. I really appreciate all of you folks helping me to keep searching for the answer.

Does this look correct now?
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Looks like it should be. Those drivers are not the best when it comes to writes.

rtwjunkie · Feb 3, 2014

Altered said:
Oh my I was up till 4AM it had me so irritated. It was bugging me so bad I knew it had to be something simple. In my BIOS there was a 2nd option for SATA and IDE combined that was enabled. So anyway it seems to check out and the performance reflects it. Still not the miricle I was expecting but a damn site faster than a platter drive. I really appreciate all of you folks helping me to keep searching for the answer.

Does this look correct now?
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Yes, it looks MUCH better. And you're right, it's not the earth-shattering improvement you might have been led to believe, but you will find some DEFINATE improvements that eventually you won't be able to live without, like I said earlier.

@MxPhenom 216: You're right that the write speeds are a little slower than others. But the read speeds are pretty good on these drives. That, plus hoping they have the long term reliability that their M4's ended up having were why I bought a couple.

PLAfiller · Feb 6, 2014

Nevermind you fixed. Congrats on your new SSD

suraswami · Feb 7, 2014

Altered said:
Oh my I was up till 4AM it had me so irritated. It was bugging me so bad I knew it had to be something simple. In my BIOS there was a 2nd option for SATA and IDE combined that was enabled. So anyway it seems to check out and the performance reflects it. Still not the miricle I was expecting but a damn site faster than a platter drive. I really appreciate all of you folks helping me to keep searching for the answer.

Does this look correct now?
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Good Catch.

Make sure you do the things mentioned in this thread.

http://www.tech-forums.net/forums/f128/ssd-tweak-guide-236563/

Download Samsung Magician software and run the Performance Benchmark and post your results.

Altered · Feb 10, 2014

Well I did the test. Its scoring better than advertised so I am happy. Thanks for the tweak guide page. I haven't used it yet but I will check it out later.

jed · Feb 11, 2014

I just got mine installed and configured with tweaks.

AHCI On
TRIM On
Indexing Moved to HDD
Defrag Off
Page File Moved to HDD
Hibernate Off
High Performance

Results from Samsung Magicican:
Seq Read: 524
Seq Write: 263
Random Read: 64007
Random Write: 55810

rtwjunkie · Feb 11, 2014

jed said:
I just got mine installed and configured with tweaks.

AHCI On
TRIM On
Indexing Moved to HDD
Defrag Off
Page File Moved to HDD
Hibernate Off
High Performance

Results from Samsung Magicican:
Seq Read: 524
Seq Write: 263
Random Read: 64007
Random Write: 55810

Awesome jed! Are you happy with it?

jed · Feb 11, 2014

rtwjunkie said:
Awesome jed! Are you happy with it?

Definitely, so far. I haven't noticed any major upgrades yet, but I have yet to play any games. Basically I wanted a solid-azz drive for my OS and main programs, and just to have that security knowing it's a lot tougher for SSD's to go bad and fail. I get into heavy gaming sometimes though so looking forward to increased load speeds.

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New Crucial M500 seems slow

Hood

Altered

FX-GMC

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PLAfiller

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Altered

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