SSD slowing down remedys

[Burts]

When a ssd drive starts to slow down will a reformat bring it back to normal?

Simple question that i cant seem to find a answer to with searches

[GroundZero3]

What slowdowns are you experiencing? Slow downs with the OS itself?

[stroyal]

It is just common sense.
What slows down a mechanical hard drive, will also effect an SSD.
A corrupt operating system.
I just won't be as dramatic, as it would take a lot more corruption. and spyware to slow it down.

The only difference between the 2 in this scenario, is speed.

The SSD still has to read all that crap, that slows down a mechanical drive, over time.
It just does it faster.
If you get rid of the crap, with a format, and a reinstall, it doesn't have to read all that crap, just like the mechanical drive.

[Burts]

Thank You, so there is no downside to raiding these being that i can just reformat every now and then and bring them back up to par.

[Taxmancometh]

I have read that SSD drives do slow down after awhile from not getting rid of the trash collection, I guess your suppose to let the computer sit for awhile for trash collection to start up. With Windows 7 threes is a thing called TRIM which greatly increases a drive's performance.

I just ordered an ADATA 128 GB SSD drive and will be using Win XP 64. XP does not have TRIM ability so I'm a little SOL there, but I bought the ADATA drive knowing it has a Sandforce chipset which is supposed to be better at garbage collection. Except with a Sandforce chipset they provision 8 GB of space plus take into considering what the real size of the 128 GB drive is and your at 111 GB.

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[stroyal]

Probably not, but you may want to look up SSD RAID TRIM.
I don't know enough about it to explain, but formatting would fix that also

SSD have a finite number of times they can be written to, but from what I have read, that could be longer than the life of a mechanical drive.

It is probably not cost effective, as 1 SSD, is going to be pretty fast, and 1 is pretty pricy.

[stroyal]

I came across this article, on synchronous, and asynchronous flash memory in SSDs.
Apparently drives with synchronous, are basically twice as fast, but a little more expensive.
It also sounds like they do RAID0 better.
Introduction - NAND Flash Faces Off - Synchronous vs. Asynchronous | [H]ard|OCP

[Taxmancometh]

Oh, how I wish I had a SATA 3 controller. Maybe I should find out about a SATA 3 PCI card.

Edit- Looks like they are all for PCI-E I only have one PCi-E 16 and the others are PCI-E x1


Actually, this one looks like PCI-E x1 Newegg.com - SYBA SY-PEX40039 PCI-Express 2.0 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card

[stroyal]

You would think something like the interface, would be listed.

Sounds like they are comparing apples, and oranges. (version,vs interface)
Quote:
Compliant with PCI-Express Specification V2.0 and Backward Compatible with PCI-Express 1.x.
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or do they mean V1.0

[ShyguyXPC]

Oh, how I wish I had a SATA 3 controller. Maybe I should find out about a SATA 3 PCI card.

Edit- Looks like they are all for PCI-E I only have one PCi-E 16 and the others are PCI-E x1


Actually, this one looks like PCI-E x1 Newegg.com - SYBA SY-PEX40039 PCI-Express 2.0 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card

I started reading your reply and was going to say, but I see you found out.

Your not going to find any PCI Cards like that, and even PCIe x1 will have to be 2.0 bandwidth as well. SATA 6Gbps Needs 2.0 x1 or better, realistically. as its at least 500MB/s bandwidth (1.0 was only 250MB/s), which is still faster than PCI in most cases, which is only between 133 & 533 MB/s depending on the type of PCI in the case.

133 MB/s (32-bit at 33 MHz)
266 MB/s (32-bit at 66 MHz or 64-bit at 33 MHz)
533 MB/s (64-bit at 66 MHz)

(taken from Wikipedia)

factor in PCI is shared on all the slots and those figures can drop like a rock.

[ShyguyXPC]

You would think something like the interface, would be listed.

Sounds like they are comparing apples, and oranges. (version,vs interface)
Quote:
Compliant with PCI-Express Specification V2.0 and Backward Compatible with PCI-Express 1.x.
edit
or do they mean V1.0

Yes, 1.x means 1.0 & 1.1 is covered.

[Taxmancometh]

So I have one PCI-E 16x occupied, what can I expect for the speed of a SATA 3 controller in a PCI-E 1x slot? Here's my motherboard. Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) LGA 775 Intel P965 Express ATX Intel Motherboard