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November 7th, 2022 02:00
Vostro 1710 Win 10 disk 100% with SSD
I've installed a SSD on my Dell Vostro 1710 on a clean install of Win 10 and disk is running at 100% almost all the time. This didn't happen on the HDD that was installed previously. When you look in Task Manager while it reports 100% you can't see anything specific hitting it hard (as you would expect to report ....)
Vostro 1710 is on latest bios A12
Micron MX1300 256gb SSD with latest firmware
Clean install of Win 10 Home, updates installed and both times it very slow as at 100% disk use most the time. I've put the same SSD in another laptop, clean install and it worked well. I've check SMART drive info and the SSD is all good.
I installed Ubuntu on the SSD in the Vostro 1710 and it ran very well so it feels like a Win 10 issue rather than hardware.
I know the Vostro 1710 is only SATA 1 but the SSD should be faster than the HDD, it currently not. I've put SSD in Dell of similar era on SATA 1 and it's made a big improvement on performance.
The CPU isn't running hot and throttling, I've check the thermal paste is all ok....
I'm running out of ideas on what check and how to fix it?
filbert
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November 7th, 2022 04:00
If it shows 100% disk use, then clearly something is hitting the SSD hard, perhaps multiple processes.
In Task Manager, Processes tab, click the top of the Disk column. That will sort the processes by amount of disk use. Investigate the worst offenders to determine what they are and why they constantly read from or write to your SSD.
Give the system some time to settle after booting it. It's normal to have lots of disk use after boot, as various Windows processes must run such as Windows Update and antimalware (for Windows Security).
Do you have plenty of free space in C:?
Nogsx4
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November 7th, 2022 08:00
I did a 3rd clean install but didn't enable updates during install. It wasn't 100% all the time, then got online and did all Windows updates. It's still not at 100% all the time but its much slower than the HDD that was installed so something off is happening.
Plenty of free space, only Windows 10 home default build installed.
BIOS is set to ACHI not ATA
When it's busy not responding for short periods of time, all the time hence feeling slow overall nothing is specifically showing up in Task Manager process tabs under CPU or Disk (as you'd expect to see).
The HDD build is the same source ISO, clean install, then get online update and its much more responsive. The only difference is WD Black HDD v Micron 1300 SSD.
I'm going to run a SSD benchmark tool next to see how fast is is running. Any other ideas, suggestions more than welcome!
Nogsx4
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November 14th, 2022 02:00
I've tried other SSD in the laptop and they work as expected. The Micron 1300 works fine in other laptops and reports no issues via S.M.A.R.T diagnose tools. Having spent far to long trying to problem solve this it appears as if the Micro 1300 isn't compatible with a Vostro 1710.