Hi, I recently purchaced this SSD which I installed a couple of days ago, I disconnected the old HDD and connected the SSD, did a clean install of windows 8.1 on to the SSD. Updated graphics drivers mobo drivers then windows updates. Updated BIOS to 2603 latest one. I then ran samsung magician`s OS Optimization, which I set to `maximum performance`and then ran `Performance optimization` and enabled Rapid mode. followed steps in this guide:- The SSD Optimization Guide Ultimate Windows 8 (And Win7) Edition on the `thessdreview` web site linked in other posts here. But It dosn`t seem much faster than my old HDD. Slightly quicker at booting/shutting down baybe. I unzipped a 213mb file on the desktop whick took 1min 13sec to unzipp. not much different to my old HDD. My HDtune benchmark shows 350MB/s transfer rate but others i`ve seen posted for the same drive all show 500MB/s for a good/healthy drive.Would post screenshots but not allowed. Any sugestions on what else I can try doing. Thanks for reading Kim My specs:- win 8.1 64-bit MSI Radion R9280x gaming edition OC 3072mb GDDR5 AMD Piledriver FX8320 black edition @4.1Ghz Asus M5a97 EVO R2.0 AMD970chipset(socket AM3+)DDR3 mother board TeamGroup Elite Black 8gb(2x4gb)DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600Mhz Seagate Barracuda 500gb sata 6Gb/s 16mb cache CoolerMasterHyper 212 Evo cpu cooler
Can you please post a scrrenshot from AS SSD benchmark and Crystal Disk Info! After that I should be able to help you =) http://www.alex-is.de/PHP/fusion/downloads.php?cat_id=4&file_id=9 http://crystalmark.info/redirect.php?product=CrystalDiskInfo May look like this
