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I have a new SSD (Kingston Hyper 120GB), with a fresh installation of Windows 7 (and several HDDs). For no apparent reason, my computer freezes. I cannot move the mouse, the sound glitches, but after about 10 seconds everything returns to normal. Any suggestions?
Are you running your drive in IDE, AHCI, or RAID? – Shinrai – 2011-10-19T22:15:23.850
Related: http://superuser.com/questions/253961/why-does-my-windows-7-pc-ssd-drive-keep-freezing
– Tamara Wijsman – 2011-10-19T22:21:57.397Troubleshooting: http://superuser.com/questions/205298/how-do-i-troubleshoot-a-windows-7-freeze-or-slowness
– Tamara Wijsman – 2011-10-19T22:22:29.780IDE, I have old motherboard – Bzzz – 2011-10-19T23:12:07.933
Related: http://superuser.com/questions/326379/vertex-3-with-asus-p8p67-pro-b3-locks-up
– Mr.Wizard – 2011-10-20T00:33:34.013@Bzzz - Running an SSD over IDE in and of itself can cause these sorts of problems, nevermind anything else! Mr. Wizard is totally right about SandForce, though. – Shinrai – 2011-10-20T19:47:42.933
@Shinrai, is it more than a matter of TRIM support? I didn't focus on this issue because he said "a fresh installation" and I thought these problems would not show up this soon. – Mr.Wizard – 2011-10-21T04:49:39.500
@Mr.Wizard - There's that, but the more likely short term problem is that the controller isn't usually optimized well for that and at a bare minimum you can expect greatly reduced performance. (I've done testing on Intel drives and seen a 50% performance decrease just from switching a machine from IDE to AHCI!) – Shinrai – 2011-10-21T14:17:20.170
1@Shinrai that makes sense. Also, I wonder what kind of MB Bzzz has that it doesn't even support AHCI. Bzzz, can you give a Motherboard make and model, please? – Mr.Wizard – 2011-10-21T15:17:37.133