SSD problem

Gers

Morning.

In November 2011 we bought a Samsung series nine notebook with an SSD which was really whizz.

In the past nine months or so it has really slowed down, so much so that opening an Internet browser or changing web pages takes ages and sometimes sticks.

The router is in the same room and all other connected devices work as usual without any problems.

I've done the usual maintenance- defrag, system check, malware check, spyware check etc and stripped the programmes back. It's still choked up. The C drive shows 79gb used of 96 and is red. I've uninstalled everything I can.

Is it normal that SSD drives do this? If so can it be 'de-coked' or will it have reached the end of its useful life?

Thanks.

grumpycrab

You don't defrag SSDs (google it); backup data ASAP, buy a new, bigger one, and image the current drive to it using something like https://www.amazon.co.uk/1-Year-Warranty-VicTsing-Adapter-Driver/dp/B00GHJJPEK/

Oblivion

Another thing you can try to free up some disc space is to perform a Disc Clean-up. Right click on the C: drive and from the Properties menu select Disc Clean-up (tick all the boxes) ... there is a further option to clean up system files there too.

Gers

Oblivion wrote: »

Another thing you can try to free up some disc space is to perform a Disc Clean-up. Right click on the C: drive and from the Properties menu select Disc Clean-up (tick all the boxes) ... there is a further option to clean up system files there too.

Thanks. Done that too.

Gers

grumpycrab wrote: »

You don't defrag SSDs (google it); backup data ASAP, buy a new, bigger one, and image the current drive to it using something like https://www.amazon.co.uk/1-Year-Warranty-VicTsing-Adapter-Driver/dp/B00GHJJPEK/

Thanks.

There's only programmes left on it now, no documents, no music, no photos no nothing.

Can it be cleared out or is the SSD permanently choked?

pappa_golf

are you saying that you are using 76gb of the 96 available on a 120g drive?


you have removed the 5 yrs worth of "windows backups" and restore points , and (machine = 2011) checked that you have not got a copy of win 10 sat waiting to be installed ?

Fightsback

Also disable hibernation (suspend to disk) as it's not needed for a SSD as it will free as much room as your system RAM, eg if you have 4gb RAM this will free 4gb disk space and if you have 8gb RAM this will free 8gb of disk space, this removes the need for the hyberfil.sys file:

Reclaim SSD Space

You can also customise pagefile.sys to reclaim more disk space.

esuhl

Are there any firmware updates available for the SSD? A lot of SSDs (Samsung in particular) have had problematic firmware causing performance issues.

http://www.techspot.com/article/997-samsung-ssd-read-performance-degradation/

pappa_golf

has the OP actually removed all the crud that has built up after 5 yrs , yes I am talking about multiple restore points etc

kwikbreaks

There's more on that C drive than just Windows and some programs.
I cloned the drive on this machine to SSD and used the mechanical drive as a D drive for data.

My C drive with Windows 10 on it and quite a few programs is currently showing as 38.8GB used.

You need to take a closer look to find out. http://lifehacker.com/5915921/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows lists a number of progams that should help. The first one mentioned Windirstat is small enough not to tip you over the brink and gives both a numerical and visual view of what your space is used for.

IMO the shortage of disk space shouldn't really cause the slowdown you are getting.

Oblivion

esuhl wrote: »

Are there any firmware updates available for the SSD? A lot of SSDs (Samsung in particular) have had problematic firmware causing performance issues.

http://www.techspot.com/article/997-samsung-ssd-read-performance-degradation/

Thanks for that esuhl, I hadn't heard about that issue. I put Samsung 840 EVO 500GB drives in both our laptops a year or so back. My wife uses hers more than I use mine and we have noticed that her machine seems to take longer to boot these days, although we're only talking a few seconds.


Next job, to track down those firmware updates.