Intel X-25M 80Gb slow 4k and poor acc times

[riteon]

Hi, I've bought a Lenovo X201s and taken its standard drive out in order to put in an Intel X-25m. In fact, I didn't even boot up the PC, I just put the Intel in and did a fresh install of Windows 7 x64.

Now sometimes I feel that the drive is slow, it hangs sometimes and doesn't feel as 'snappy' as I'd expect of a SSD. It's not all the time, but just sometimes.

I've attached a couple of grabs from AS Benchmark, first with the 02HA firmware and then with the 02HD firmware which I placed on it thinking it may help with the speeds and access times.

My PC is a i7 620LM, 4Gb RAM and the Controller is an Intel 5 Series/3400 Chipset Faminly 6 port SATA AHCI Controller - 3B2F.

The drive is SSDSA2M080G2GC.

The Intel Drive had been used in a few other PC's beforehand, just for testing and installing OS's. Would it need to be reset? or would HDD Erase be a good thing to do? Also, if I was to do a HDD Erase, would it be wrong for me to Acronis an image to an external drive, do the HDD Erase and then Acronis back the image (or does this negate any benefits?).

Sorry for all the Q's, but I'd like to be getting the figures seen on this page http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=242059

Where access times are in the region of;
Read: 0.057 ms
Write: 0.084 ms

Compared to mine
Read: 0.208 ms
Write: 0.222 ms

And 4k's are;

Read: 21.69 MB/s
Write: 52.24 MB/s

Compared to mine
Read: 12.9 MB/s
Write: 18.28 MB/s


Thanks in advance for any tips or advice!