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Problems with Solid State Drives on Latitude D630
We recently purchased some Latitude D630s with the new 32GB Solid State Drive option. We have been noticing that they are all hanging quite frequently whenever there is a period of sustained access to the drive. Basically, the hard drive light will be solid green and the system becomes completely unresponsive until whatever background task that is running is completed.
This is happening with both Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista Business. Has anyone else with solid state drives been experiencing any issues?
We have done all driver and BIOs updates without any improvement.
Thanks,
Jason
rewillis9999
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Posted October 9th, 2007 19:00
That's sounds very painful. I have a week left before my 30 days are up. I'll just send it back on go to back to my trusty 620rewillis9999
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Posted November 9th, 2007 18:00
I have the 32GB on a D630 with XP sp2. The problem is being ignored by Dell.sebastien.barre
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Posted November 9th, 2007 18:00
Same problem here. Very disappointing. The write speed of SSD is about 3 times *slower* than the exact same laptop with a regular 120 GB drive. The read speed is great, but the system is hanging way too often. Also, whereas XP would probably be OK with a 32 GB drive, Vista is horribly bloated, and *keep* growing each time you update it.sebastien.barre
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Posted December 30th, 2007 10:00
It was a Sandisk. I was not aware Dell was shipping 32 GB Samsung SSD (they weren't at that time), *but* I replaced my 32 GB Sandisk with the new 64 GB Samsung SSD, and it's working *much* better. It's about 3 times faster on write than the previous, marginally slower than a regular disk, and still about 20 times faster on read.sebastien.barre
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Posted January 4th, 2008 13:00
There is no such setting on my Vista system. I see: + IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers - ATA Channel 0 - Intel(R) 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller - Intel(R) ICH8M Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 2850 None of these 3 entries provide any info about Ultra DMA settings in the Properties dialog (and/or "Advanced").aseasyas2x2_4
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Posted January 4th, 2008 13:00
Could you please tell in what mode your SSD works (in the Device Manager select IDE ATA controllers -> Ultra ATA Channel -> Advanced Settings)? Is it Ultra DMA Mode 2 or 5?
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Posted October 8th, 2007 20:00