Hardware PC sluggish after installing SSD

[bananapi761]

I own a Lenovo ThinkPad X240, which I recently upgraded with an Apacer 64GB M.2 SATA SSD. Initially, I migrated the OS from the HDD, and deleted everything from it. After doing so, boot time and performance were very sluggish. Processes in task manager didn't prove anything, with CPU, GPU, memory and disk usage all being below 50%. Checking the performance tab shows the SSD constantly peaking at 100% active time, commonly without a single break in the graph. The response time varies, but reaches as high as 5000ms. Meanwhile, read/write speeds vary as normal, from absolutely nothing to about 40MB, as they should be. I completely wiped the SSD and HDD and reinstalled Windows 10 from scratch, same issue. I'm confident it's not a program causing the problem, so what are my options? If I have none, is there a way to determine if the the SSD is faulty, or maybe the device is at fault?

 

[TotalInsanity4]

I was going to ask what program you used to migrate over but since you completely reinstalled that shouldn't be the issue. You could download CrystalDiskInfo, but all that would do is tell you S.M.A.R.T. statistics. Still, that could be worth a shot.

Either way it does sound like the drive is a dud. In the end I'd contact customer support and see if you can RMA it

Edit: oh I think I see what the problem is. Generally speaking, SSDs get faster the higher the capacity they are, since there are physically more cells to read and write from. It's entirely possible that since it's only 64GB, that particular product will always run on the low end for random reads and writes

 

[Originality]

There’s a couple more issues you might be tripping over, in addition to what Total mentioned.

As a SSD gets closer to its capacity, it slows down to a crawl (if it’s over 95% used, even the best SSDs can slow down to HDD speeds).

Additionally, cheap SSDs might use cheap components that do not operate faster than a HDD in the first place. At best, they might have a faster cache so that cached files load faster, but the moment the cache is full you’re back to inferior speeds.

 

[altorn]

if you try reinstalling win10 on your hdd with same configuration and it runs normally, then it's your SSD. if you fresh install win10 on a 64gb SSD, it shouldn't slow your system down that much. i've had a 111gb ADATA SSD for a while with windows 7 (40gb install), with visual studio, photoshop etc and space was always nearly full, but never experienced your issue except when accessing recycle bin for some reason.