I love the Intel X25-M SSD, but recently I’ve been having problems with applications stuttering, freezing, locking up, and not responding to input. Mouse cursors will hang, application don’t respond–essentially nothing works. I tried updating to the latest drivers, etc, but no luck. For informational purposes, here’s my system info:

OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
System Model D975XBX_
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11 GenuineIntel ~2430 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Intel Corp. BX97510J.86A.1487.2007.0902.1724, 9/2/2007
Total Physical Memory 4,096.00 MB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
I/O Port 0×000003C0-0×000003DF NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
Model INTEL SSDSA2MH080G1GC

I think I’ve found two things that helped:

1. Not running Mozy Backup
2. Turning off virtual memory page files on non-SSD drives
3. Move Google Chrome’s profile to a hard disk

If anyone has other tips on getting rid of SSD stutters, let me know.

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2 Responses to “SSD Stutter / Freeze Problems?”

1. Wagner says:

   8/5/2010 at 9:00 pm

   May I suggest something? Instead of moving the entire profile dir to another place outside the SSD (i.e. ramdisk, non-ssd disk), now you can tweak just the google cache dir by using the following parameters:

   “…chrome.exe” –disk-cache-dir= –disk-cache-size=

   I wrote a post in my blog with more information on this:
   http://www.wagnerdanda.me/2010/08/how-to-fix-google-chrome-problems-with-ssd-move-cache-to-ramdisk/

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2. micah says:

   2/3/2010 at 11:06 am

   SSD’s stutter bad on WinXP unless you partition the drive correctly from the begining. it has to do with the partition placement on the drive. Win7 does this trick automatically for you. Also dont defrag the drive. It doesnt help the drive any and it will lessen the life span.

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