Kingston SSD 2.5" snv125/s2 128gig

[Gavin78]

I've had problems with this drive since I got it from Ebay.

I have installed it as my main drive and keep getting blue screened (memory dump) all the time and happens at random times.

I have done everything I can from turning the page file off (I've 8gig ram) superfetch off etc Putting the drive into Raid and AHCI.

Even the windows score only gives me a 5.9 rating and my WD 7200RPM drive has a faster transfer rate than this drive.

I'm using windows 7 pro 64bit on a gigabyte mainboard with sata2 cables.

There are no driver updates on the kingston website as they state the drive is no longer supported.

I'm wondering if there is anything else I can do with this drive before I remove it and go back to my WD drive as the main drive?

[qasdfdsaq]

What SATA controller do you have it connected to? Have you tried updating your SATA driver? Do you have an alternative controller to connect it to?

[idi banashapan]

eBay, you say? Hmmmm... Alarm bells already ringing in my ears. Not useful info in this case, I know. But maybe next time it will be.

[haydnwalker]

Originally Posted by idi banashapan

eBay, you say? Hmmmm... Alarm bells already ringing in my ears. Not useful info in this case, I know. But maybe next time it will be.

Same here. I'd never purchase kit like that off of ebay especially a private seller.

[Waldo Pepper]

Kingston SSD drives never seem to have a good speed rating, however this post maybe useful

http://tinyurl.com/48vcnzx

A couple of tips as I also use a SSD on my laptop. Not a clone from my previous disk as I wanted rid of all the cack HP put on their laptops.

1. Do a clean install to another hard disk (a spinning one).
2. Install all the major apps onto this system.
3. Image the spinning drive across to the SSD using something like EASUS (Google it) and a suitable USB-SATA converter hardware.
4. Swap the disks over. You will need your original Win disk as EASUS (and any other rename the mirrored drive letter, the system won't like it and the Win7 installation disk re-assigns your imaged SSD which say will be drive F: back to C: EASUS can do this but you have to upgrade (but well worth it as I have upgraded to the professional edition).
5. Follow some of the tips from this site: http://tinyurl.com/4q6bslx

Before I purchased mine, I printed out loads of info on how to configure an SSD and read and re-read before spending the cash so I could hit the ground running. Loads of good info out there.

Hope this helps. They are really worth the huge speed improvement when set up properly (and work).

I do agree with others. Your media and info are the most important things on your PC. Don't try to do it on the cheap. Just not worth it.

One other thing I found out. HP do not support Win 7 for my laptop. I ended up with a really aweful video adapter setting. I read somewhere that video card manufacturers are only supporting generic VGA in the most basic of settings. 640x480x16 colours in some cases.

Try and get the video drivers direct from the manufacturer. I identified my video chipset from device manager, NVidia supported it under Win 7 so I went direct the their site and all is superb now.

Good Luck and do let us all know how you get on!

[Gavin78]

Going to have a bit of a play with it now. To be honest when I bid on the drive I never thought of looking up how good and bad SSD's can be of any hassle they would be to get running.

I just thought speed and I got the drive for £90. Now I dont really see any benefits of the drive and it doesn't seem any faster than my spinning drives but I was using windows 7 generic drivers and not tried updating the drivers from the gigabyte site. so going to have a play now.

[BloodyL]

Turning the Pagefile off is actually a bad idea, windows *really* needs it, and MS say that reads far outweigh writes to the pagefile, so having it on the SSD is not a problem.
If you want to keep the install on the SSD light, create the pagefile on your other drive, system managed too.

Disabling Defrag, Prefetch and things like that are also redundant, Win7 automatically disables these features for the drive if it is fast enough, and completely disabling them may actually be harming the performance of the mechanical drive.

Now, as others have pointed out, buying an SSD off ebay may not be the best thing, SSD's are very temperamental and it'd be easy for someone to get shut of a broken drive through ebay as they are harder to fault find.

Don't benchmark the drive too much, the load they generate is competely un-natural and will overload the internal garbage collection and NAND flash cell load balancing systems for a while.

Check to make sure TRIM is enabled:

Click Start, type in command in the search window (don't press return), right click the "Command Prompt" option and choose "open as administrator"
In the console that just popped up, type in the following:

fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify

If the answer is "0" then TRIM is enabled.

Hope this helps.