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My SSD based system is starting to feel slow and sluggish, but it used to be lightning fast. I tried to cleanup as much as I could, removed programs from startup, etc.
However, one big change I did is that I changed my HDD setup from 1 HDD to 2 HDDs in RAID 1 (for added security without having to bother with manual backups).
All my programs are on the SSD, as well as the user directory, but data is on the HDD except some things I wanted to keep really fast (mainly, my C++ programming stuff) . The weird thing is that the system can feel slower, even with SSD-only operations (launching programs, etc.).
Hardware:
- Motherboard: P6T-SE with ICH10R intel controller.
- SSD: Crucial 128 M4
- HDDs: 2 * Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (ST31000333AS)
In order to use RAID 1, I had to change a setting in the BIOS from AHCI to RAID. Is it possible that this hurts the performance of my SSD?
I noticed in Process Explorer that one of the most time consuming processes is MsMpEng (Anti Malware Service, part of Microsoft Security Essentials).
2Tangential to your question (but you you brought this topic up in your question) RAID IS NOT A BACKUP SOLUTION. If you accidentally delete (not move to the recycle bin) a important file how does RAID 1 protect you from that? If you get a virus how does RAID 1 get you known good copies of your files? Raid is for reducing downtime due to hardware failure or increasing I/O throughput, not "backups". – Scott Chamberlain – 2012-08-05T07:11:07.310
I totally agree with you. My raid is here in case one HDD physically stops working. I have a regular backup for the rest. – Dinaiz – 2012-08-05T23:45:16.147