Hello dear readers,
I have an issue with an Intel 530 120 GiB SSD. We use it since some years as a database drive in a 24/7 working, MSSQL server on Windows 7. The drive is a second one in a HP Z230 series tower, with gen 4 Intel i5 CPU and corresponding hardware. Around a year before, we experienced ridiculous slowdown during log file deletion. After deleting more than 10 files in a row, the SSD slowed down as seriously as MSSQL server hanged up for a minute. What i have tried already:
-Clean out the PC, clean RAM contacts, fans, redo all cable conenctions and change cables
-Test RAM
-Updated system UEFI
-Let Intel SSD Optimizer do its job-no new firmware, no SMART error, TRIM works fine, SSD Optimization is done
-Changed SATA mode from RAID to AHCI and for further tests, compatible IDE
-Run off from Hiren's Boot CD Windows XP and did a disk image copy on the first HDD to overcome the situation. The speed was extremly slow, it took 5 hours to copy 40 GB of disk image.
After i took the drive in an USB3 enclosure on a differenct PC and everything seems fine, no slowdown, and speed is normal.
So, all in one, i have to figure out if the SSD is defective, or facing with a firmware related problem, or maybe the server has something wrong with the SATA controller (not really think-as the other HDD works fine)