SSD Performance

[simontompkins]

Has anyone had any experience of an SSD becoming really slow when becoming full. There's an artoicle at Tom's hardware about these drives slowing up when over 50% full. If any has any experience of this please advise

[IronWarrior]

Using an Sandforce controller SSD?

If so, free up some space.

[HalloweenJack]

which SSD? which motherboard? which motherboard drivers?

[Agent]

Using an Sandforce controller SSD?

If so, free up some space.

If it's Sandfroce based, it's worse than that. If you've filled it with the "wrong" type of data, you can get them into a situation where they simply can't recover their speed without a reformat and copying the data back.

AnAnd has a good article on it, as always.

[mikeo]

Should not be too difficult to sort:

- Tidy SSD up (IE. delete / move files until you have a decent amount of free space).
- Image drive (this is where a program like Acronis True Image comes in handy).
- Secure Erase SSD (Parted Magic bootable disk usefull here).
- Restore Image back to SSD. As long as you've done a complete disk backup in Acronis True Image, partition alignment (crucial for SSD's) will be kept.

I expect Norton Ghost, or any one of several other good quality backup/restore programs should suffice.