Windows 10: Sdd usb 3.1 very slow

My Asus X99-A II has a Type-C USB 3.1 port.

I thought it would be helpful to make use of this port, so I bought a USB 3.1 StarTech hard drive enclosure rated for 10Gbps and installed a Samsung PM800 250GB SSD in it.

I expected very fast, or at least fast speeds from this drive. Instead I got DiskMark results as show in the image.

I looked for hard-drive tools to assess the health of the drive, but can't find any that work through USB, including DataLifeguard, Gsmartcontrol etc.

If there are any ideas as to how I can go about finding the reason behind the slow speeds, I'd be grateful.

:)

 

Not able to format 512GB Crucial MX100 (SDD#1)


October 2016

Hi everybody,
Like I say in the topic I can’t format my SSD#1 Crucial MX100 512GB.
Here what I try. Thanks.

Operating System: Windows 10 full updated (October 2016)
Computer: Asus Maximus Formula (buy at 2008)
BIOS: Legacy BIOS (mean no UEFI - Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)

BIOS and Windows 10 recognized the SDD#1.

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1- I try Disk Management to format the SDD#1.
One with “Quick format” option check and one with “Quick format” uncheck.

Same result for both:
The windows message received:
“Virtual Disk Manager” (title of the windows showing the message)
The format did not complete successfully (the message)
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2- For this step I just connect the SDD#1 and the CDROM
I try to boot from Windows 10 DVD installation, choose “Install” and Windows is not able to delete the partition on the SDD#1. It is not able to create a partition neither. And sure it’s not able to install Windows 10 on the SDD#1.
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3- For this step I just connect the SDD#1 and the CDROM
I try to boot from Windows 10 DVD installation, choose “Repair”, go in command prompt and do the following:

Diskpart
List disk
List volume

Select disk 0
Select volume 1
Clean

Message received:
DiskPart has encountered an error: The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. See the System Event Log for more information.
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4- For this step I connect all my SDD#1 and HDD and put the SDD#1 on other port.
I go to CMD and enter the same command than above for same result.
This time I can check the Event Viewer:

Event Viewer
464 Error and 1 Warning

Warning
Event Properties - Event 153, disk
The IO operation at logical block address 0x0 for Disk 2 (PDO name: \Device\0000002a) was retried.

Errors (repeat the following errors 232 time ? - I don't check all but it appear to be same two errors)
Event Properties - Event 24620, BitLocker Driver
Encrypted volume check: Volume information on \\?\Volume{01128aa1-0000-0000-007e-000000000000} cannot be read.

Event Properties - Event 7, disk
The device, \Device\Harddisk2\DR2, has a bad block.
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5- I try the free program “ MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition 9.1” and nothing work. Not able to delete partion not able to create one.
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6- I try GParted under XUbuntu and it’s not work too.
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I am very sad. I do not have $ 200 for buying another SSD.
Are there something to do to format the SSD # 1?
I can’t believe it's broken. I have hard disks (trays) much older than it and that still works

 

SDD and a HDD windows 10

I have Windows 10 installed on a 525gb SDD. I have a 1tb HDD that I'm using for my data. I've been reading a lot of conflicting tweaks to use on the SDD. Help!

1. Should I eliminate the swap on the SDD? I do a have a windows managed swap file on the HDD.

2. Should I turn off indexing on the SDD?

3. Should I turn off system restore on the SDD?

Most of the articles I've been reading have been a couple of years old. I know that the current SDDs are better but do these same tweaks apply now?

Any info and suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks

 

Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk