Hi all. I recently upgraded from a Western Digital 640 black, to a Samsung evo 850 500Gb. And I have to say... its not really the night and day difference that everyone seems to rave about. It is faster yes. But the way people talk, I was expecting something like an 80% improvement. Its more like 50% at best. Maybe 30-40% in some cases. It did shave off about 10 seconds of my boot time. And folders do open quicker. But the main reason I bought it, was so that I didn't have to wait so long for loading in modern games. And some of these games can take a good bit to load. So as a test I quickly loaded up Mass Effect Andromeda. And, there isn't a real big improvement there. Its slightly noticeable. Slightly.
But... I'm wondering if this may have something to do with the problem, and maybe someone here can tell me: I imaged my windows 7 drive, off of the WD HDD, onto the Samsung Evo. So its Windows 7, and it was imaged. I did a bit of reading, and most tests seem to show that if anything, Windows 10 is actually a tiny bit slower than Windows 7 when it comes to SSDs. Some other tests show it being the same. And I don't know if imaging the drive, as opposed to doing a brand new install of windows, could have some kind of effect on overall speed. I just don't know. So does anyone know what's up?
Would I be better off with a new install of Windows 10, and not imaging it over from another drive?
But... I'm wondering if this may have something to do with the problem, and maybe someone here can tell me: I imaged my windows 7 drive, off of the WD HDD, onto the Samsung Evo. So its Windows 7, and it was imaged. I did a bit of reading, and most tests seem to show that if anything, Windows 10 is actually a tiny bit slower than Windows 7 when it comes to SSDs. Some other tests show it being the same. And I don't know if imaging the drive, as opposed to doing a brand new install of windows, could have some kind of effect on overall speed. I just don't know. So does anyone know what's up?
Would I be better off with a new install of Windows 10, and not imaging it over from another drive?