My system disk is Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB, nesides I also have 1 TB hard drive, split into two partitions. Do I have a chance by sending it back?Īctually, I just re-ran the performance benchmark and now get (Win10 Slow): I just recently pick up a Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB for my PC. It's just real-life usage that shows that everything is far from ok. It does have a 5 year warranty, but according the Samsung Magician, the drive condition is 'Good', and the performance benchmark shows that. Tried a different SATA slot on the motherboard (albeit without reinstalling Windows 10), and still the same issue. So I don't know what else there is to do? tried reformatting and reinstalling windows. Unfortunately, the performance is exactly as it was, taking ages to show contents of any large folder.
I've been down with flu for the last week, but just tried plugging the slow drive into the slot right next door to the fast drive, which is in an ASMedia Serial ATA 6.0Gb/s slot (it was in an Intel Z97 Serial ATA 6.0Gb/s slot).
I bought both drives at the same time, end of July 2015.Īny ideas how to explain this? Or how to fix it?
The last strange thing I noticed was the Total Bytes Written: So the slow drive should actually be performing better than the fast one!!! In performance benchmark, I get the following: I open Samsung Magician, both are running the same (latest) firmware. So I suspect I have something wrong with the slow SSD.
In the end, I formatted Windows 7, and installed Windows 10 on that drive, and the problem is cured! So now I have a slow running Windows 10 on Disk 0 SSD, and a fast running Windows 10 on Disk 1 SSD.
So over Christmas I formatted and re-installed Windows 10. Windows 7 (on the other SSD) doesn't have this problem at all. It doesn't matter whether it's on an external drive or the system folder, it takes many minutes until I can see everything. The problem I have had is, as soon as I get into Windows 10 and open up Windows Explorer, it takes a huge amount of time to display all the files in a folder. I haven't had to use Windows 7 much, as nearly 100% of my software is compatible with Windows 10. On one I installed Windows 7, and the other Windows 10. If not, you can go into Disk Management, and format/assign drive letter in there.I actually have two of these. Thus, there are more chances that you need to format or reformat Samsung SSD and the main reasons are listed below: To use Samsung SSD : It will not be allowed to store data on a Samsung SSD that has no file system. However, if you want, you can go into BIOS and select the SSD (or sometimes the Windows Boot Manager depending on motherboard), and boot into Windows.Īfter that, Windows 10 will normally prompt you to format the HDD for it to work, and then it will assign a drive letter. Samsung SSDs like Samsung SSD 850 EVO, are applied by more and more computer users. At this point, you won't have the USB boot drive still connected to PC, so it will boot off of the SSD. After that, shut down PC, and connect the HDD.
Go ahead and install Windows and then whatever else you want on the SSD. I bought a Samsung 850 EVO 1 Terabyte 1) Opened up laptop and replaced the 1 Terabyte HDD with Samsung 850 EVO 2.5 Sata SSD.
I bought a Samsung 950 PRO 512 Gig NVMe SSD. I have the G752VY series (the one with the 980M Geforce). Boot your PC and the USB drive is still the first boot device, so it should start the Windows install. Ive noticed a lot of people seem to be having some issues with the 950 Samsung NVMe installations. Unhook the cable to the HDD, and connect your SSD. At that point, you can hold the power button down and power down the PC. To change the name of the drive, you may enter a name for Volume label, tick the. 4 From the drop down list select NTFS under file system. 3 Right click on the drive to be formatted and click Format. Select the partition that is you HDD and that you want formatted, and click delete. Follow the instructions to format your SSD device using your PC/laptop: 1 Connect your SSD to PC or laptop.
Boot off of it, and follow the steps to get to the advanced area: Probably the easiest thing to do if you are going format the HDD, is to create a USB install drive directly from Microsoft, go into BIOS and select it as the boot device. Depending on the motherboard, it might say something like AHCI/RAID though.