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Slow SSD - any suggestions

I have the 1030NR version from Best Buy with the 16GB SSD. The drive seems to freeze up periodically and prevent you from doing ANYTHING with the computer until it catches up. Any suggestions on how to minimize this effect, other than totally swapping out the drive? Any reasonably priced replacement SSDs that would be better?

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jadedsurfer

I picked up a mTron 32GB SSD on line. This thing is quick!! I can boot into windows 7 in under 40 seconds!! The only down side is the price, they are sitting around $230.00. I personally thing that it is worth it. Especially for the performance upgrade. Then again, $349 for the netbook, plus $230 for the SSD, you are now in full feature lappy territory.
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tweak

RunCore SSDs are baller in this.

Check it out: jkkmobile.blogspot.com­/2009­/01­/runcore­-18­-inch­-ssd...
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Galaxytodd

Ah, found a cheap solution! Dump Norton and IE 8, use AVG and Chrome - netbook is now smokin along!
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JediJah

I'm having the same issue. I ordered a RunCore 32gb SSD from www.mydigitaldiscount.com­/CategoryProductList.jsp­?...

This is suppose to improve performance a lot. Keeping my fingers crossed.
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Knappma

First thing I do on any pc is remove Norton/Mcafee. they are both system stallers. AVG and Mozilla or Chrome does the trick.
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Adiliyo

or try the new security essentials from microsoft, it seems to be pretty low in resource usage uses about 2MB on my system.

on a side note, how much ram do you have?
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FullSpecs

16Gb is the problem.
There is a problem with SSD where the more data you have on it the slower it will get. Dump as much junk as you can get it down to just the bare OS and use webservices for everything else, Google Docs etc.

If freeing up space doesn't improve things, and BTW you may need to free up a lot for it to work, it might be time to get a new drive. 16Gb is pretty small and limiting anyway.
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darthgault

I run a dell mini 9 with 2gb ram and the stock 8gb ssd drive ... i have a plain install of windows 7 RC w/avg and its fast except for flash embedded video which drags bigtime.

i have seen a lot of comments on other sites that win7 runs way better on small ssd drives than winXP ... win7 takes 7gb of space.
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FullSpecs

It's far too large for me to explain. But here's an article on the issue of SSD Performance degradation:

www.anandtech.com­/storage­/showdoc.aspx­?i­=3631
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