On 3/4/19 7:04 AM, hdv@gmail wrote: > Hi all, > > The mSATA SSD in my Thinkpad W530 was getting full,. So I tried to replace it > with a new larger one (Samsung EVO 860). I knew about the mSATA II vs III issue > and the BIOS AHCI setting. What I didn't expect was the laptop to slow down to a > crawl. To illustrate: even opening de start menu is so slow that you have to > wait for the panel to show for about 10 seconds. Like this the machine is > completely unusable. I expected not to be able to run the new SSD at full speed > (max 3 GB/s on the port in this machine), but this is crazy. > > It gets even crazier. Placing the old SSD back in the slot resulted in the same > slow speeds as with the new SSD in. Not the old speeds. Before this experiment > the laptop was just fine. It was quick enough, the storage was just getting > filled up. > > Can anyone give me some pointers on how to diagnose or maybe even fix this? > ... Boot from live media; reset BIOS to defaults; check for W530 BIOS update; SSD firmware update; ... -- Sarunas Burdulis Systems Administrator, Dartmouth Mathematics math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas
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