Windows is very slow with the new SSD

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I have a laptop HP probook 4520s with

Core i5 M480 @ 2.67Ghz,
4Gb RAM,
640 GB HDD
Radeon HD 6370m 1GB video card.

It would seem like a good stack for work, right? But My HDD has crashed after everyday walking with laptop about 1 year.

After buying my new SSD (Patriot memory – Torqx II 128 Gb SATA II) and installing new Windows 8 from scratch – it was amazing fast. But I had only install windows updates, and I feel that the speed become the same as my old HDD, after install other software for my work, it becomes so slow, so when I use my PC with old lower configuration and it really works better than my awesome laptop… I checked that TRIM and AHCI mode are turned on. So why's that?

I asked for help in Patriot Memory support, they suggested to send them ATTO test results, done, sent. Here is the response:

"Thank you very much for the attached results.
Looking at the results, I can see that your SSD speed is a lot lower than it should be. Can you tell me your system specs?
"

Until they checked my email, I re-installed Windows 8 to Windows 7 and it was again perfect, but the story repeats it becomes slower and slower after every installing new software. Check out some screenshots..

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(sorry for the screenshot with russian TaskManager, I hope you will recognize those parameters accordingly with your english or other lang TaskManager)

So the main issue that something everytime loads the disc on 100% and the response time is jumping around 1000-3000 ms. (when something is installing – response time is ~10k-12k ms)

Why am I asking about Windows? Because I tried to install Linux Mint (x86) and It just flies. So great performance independent on how many programs I have installed. Only Windows (any 7 or 8) has this problem.

So guys, I appreciate any ideas about how to fix that and may be answers of main question – "why is it so.?"

Thanks!

P.S. It might be important information: I have another one partition with Linux Mint (x86) installed with Dual Boot near the Windows 8 (x64). The bootloader – GRUB. Linux works very great. So i'm not sure that it's really SSD issue.. as it works great with other (linux) OS. Right ?

UPD01:
I've followed @Breakthrough's suggestion and opened DISKPART to see the partitions and they alignment offset and here is the output:

Partition ###  Type         Size     Offset
-------------- ------------ -------- --------
Partition 1    Primary      350Mb    1024 kb
Partition 2    Primary      87Mb     351 Mb
Partition 0    Extended     31Gb     87 Gb
Partition 3    Logical      31Gb     87 Gb

UPD02:
Here is the screenshot of AS SSD Benchmark. It was testing about 1 hour on a 4k-64Thrd Write Step. Other steps went about ~1 min.

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Might installing Windows 8 x86 resolve this issue, even for a little bit ?

Here is the screenshot from Clean Windows 8 AS SSD Benchmark test before Windows calculate my Windows Experience Index

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UPD!!!!!!!!The probles was bad SSD. They gave me a NEW one(ADATA SX900), and it just flies! Really fast. So to all having this problem – return it back to shop via warranty ASAP!!! Thanks!

Best Answer

What you need to do, is to see what process is utilising your disk. Click on the Open Resource Monitor at the bottom of Task Manager. Then click the Disk tab and see what process is hogging up your drive, then post back here. This could be a number of issues from SSD Trash management to a rouge driver / app.

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