I just bought a nice Defiance laptop (Clevo P950HR).
I needed super fast drive access (I do mostly video editing) so I got these 2 options, which are advertised to be the fastest:
- SSHD 2 To SEAGATE FIRECUDA 2,5 pouces, 128 Mo de CACHE (5400 t/min) (since it was advertised: 5 TIMES FASTER THAN HDD)
- INTEL® OPTANE 32 Go
The computer has been incredibly slow since I received it: 5 to 10 minutes boot time, freezes, inability to playback 720p video smoothly etc..
I ran several tests and benchmarks over the past weeks, and the problem seems to be the drive access, but it appears to be a bit random, sometimes the computer is working fine, but struggles at least once every hour.
The best way to reproduce the problems / system slow down is to just copy a file locally (3Go for high disk performance) :
I sometime get great results, 1 copy out of 5, almost 1GB/s, the copy takes 3 seconds to complete. Great !
Most of the time it starts fine, and after a few seconds, the transfer rate drops to 100-300Kb/s.
Computer stops responding for about 1-2 minutes, and then copy resumes and fluctuates between 5-10Mo/s.
It will then take 5-10 minutes to copy the file.
In the meantime, everything freezes, computer barely responds, and the computer is unusable.
Ctrl-Alt-Sup takes between 1 and 2 minutes to come up.
While I don't copy files all the time, this drive problem seems to be happening in the background, all the time, and makes freezes and hick ups constantly (except when disk usage is low: ie Gaming after everything preloaded).
Has anyone encountered similar problems ?
Would you think it's rather a Optane problem, a SSHD FIRECUDA issue ?
I contacted technical support but I don't think they understood the issue.
I'll try again Monday, but any input will be appreciated
Thanks
I needed super fast drive access (I do mostly video editing) so I got these 2 options, which are advertised to be the fastest:
- SSHD 2 To SEAGATE FIRECUDA 2,5 pouces, 128 Mo de CACHE (5400 t/min) (since it was advertised: 5 TIMES FASTER THAN HDD)
- INTEL® OPTANE 32 Go
The computer has been incredibly slow since I received it: 5 to 10 minutes boot time, freezes, inability to playback 720p video smoothly etc..
I ran several tests and benchmarks over the past weeks, and the problem seems to be the drive access, but it appears to be a bit random, sometimes the computer is working fine, but struggles at least once every hour.
The best way to reproduce the problems / system slow down is to just copy a file locally (3Go for high disk performance) :
I sometime get great results, 1 copy out of 5, almost 1GB/s, the copy takes 3 seconds to complete. Great !
Most of the time it starts fine, and after a few seconds, the transfer rate drops to 100-300Kb/s.
Computer stops responding for about 1-2 minutes, and then copy resumes and fluctuates between 5-10Mo/s.
It will then take 5-10 minutes to copy the file.
In the meantime, everything freezes, computer barely responds, and the computer is unusable.
Ctrl-Alt-Sup takes between 1 and 2 minutes to come up.
While I don't copy files all the time, this drive problem seems to be happening in the background, all the time, and makes freezes and hick ups constantly (except when disk usage is low: ie Gaming after everything preloaded).
Has anyone encountered similar problems ?
Would you think it's rather a Optane problem, a SSHD FIRECUDA issue ?
I contacted technical support but I don't think they understood the issue.
I'll try again Monday, but any input will be appreciated
Thanks
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