Poor SSD performance...due to W8?

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I have an OCZ Vertex 4 SSD and it's pretty quick, and rated 7.9 in windows 7 and I forget the benchmark numbers. Anyway I installed windows 8 and now the performance of it is crap, aroudn 6.5 windows index score. My old motherboard was crap and ACHI would not work properly so my controller was always on IDE as such when I upgraded to 8 it was on IDE.

I did the registry changes in 8 to allow AHCI so my new motherboard I installed last week is allowing that but my performance is still crap. Is the only other way to resolve the issue by reinstalling windows 8?

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Is the performance actually suffering or are you going only by the Windows Score?  The Windows Score is pointless and should always be ignored.

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I use it as an example only because I do not remember the benchmark scores, but yes my last benchmarks were pretty undesireable and my boot times are pretty lousy (3 minutes at times)

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you should use this

http://www.hdtune.com/

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

windows exp is not accurate all the time

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I was using AS SSD for my benchmark but it has appeared to have been removed. I'll use one of those and post the results, one moment.

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http://i.imgur.com/A95I4ms.png

 

About half of what it used (should) be.

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http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/295332-32-vertex-problems

try this

what stuff you have in your SSD? 70% of it being used

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Mainly just the OS, but I also have skyrim installed on it. It's set on AHCI mode and is connected to port zero trough a sata 3 cable, those speeds shouldn't be that bad.

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Format everything on it and reinstall. Easiest way.

 

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Yep, just attempting to avoid it really. And trying to ensure that it is, indeed, the problem.

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Problem solved, reinstalled windows and everything is back up to good speeds.