No difference in speed after installing ssd

[Iva]

Hi guys,

I love this blog, and brought ezbook because of Chris review, and also because the community is so helpful 😉

I have a last batch of ezbook with very speedy sandisc Emmc (almost 200 reading)
And, yeah, with keyboard problems.

So I installed Transcend 2242 ssd, mts400, 128gb, with reading 500, and writing, 160. In Cristal disk mark I receive 480 reading, 170 writing (can upload screenshots tomorrow)

I installed fresh windows from creation tool, and then cloned boot loader and recovery partitions. Didn’t format Emmc, don’t want to take the risk of bricking the notebook.

I have 2 partitions on ssd, for Windows, and for files, installed ms office and bt and WiFi drivers, and didn’t do much more. Ah, and updated drivers with this Microsoft updating drivers tool, it didn’t update anything.

The problem is, I don’t feel difference in speed, between MMC and ssd. I mean, now using Windows on ssd, it’s not quicker, than it was. And, well – someone posted, that it boots in 2 seconds, for me it’s more like 30 seconds. And on MMC it was also 30 seconds, maybe 2 seconds longer.

When I power on the notebook, I have:

1.) 10 second of black screen, and blue diod is blinking as usual, that’s how I knew it’s turning on.

2.) Jumper logo – 2 second to click delete and go in bios

3.) Jumper logo and the wheel is turning.

4.) Boot loader asks me which windows I want to boot (I turned it on 5 seconds and then booting the one from ssd, but usually I just press quickly enter.)

5. Login screen, and then I give the pin, and have windows powered in 3 seconds. It was the same on Emmc actually, 3 seconds, and it’s on

Sooo, did I fuck up the installation? the drivers? Or is it just poor little ssd, and I shouldn’t expect much?

Thanks for reading 😉

[Iva]

SSD and EMMC benchmarks here:

 

Edit: I checked boot speed with the timer – it was 60 seconds. I have a feeling it was quicker on emmc actually.

Edit2: enabling fast boot in bios was a bad idea xD it didn’t boot, after a few restart I was able to get into bios and change it back.

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[Impie]

I’m not sure what you were expecting. Fast eMMC and below average SSD’s don’t have a world of difference between them in terms of perceived speed. Booting is also not solely based on disk performance, but also heavily dependent on the CPU – which is of course relatively slow. You will probably only see a small boost in performance on really disk-heavy tasks.

On the other hand it’s quite possible that the keyboard issue also has an impact on the performance, because my V3 has much slower eMMC but faster boot times.

[Iva]

I thought so. But never had an ssd before, and people post about 3 seconds boot time, so I was wondering, why my boot time on ssd is exactly the same, I not longer, as on emmc.

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