Hello everyone. I have an M14x R1 which I bought in June 2011. Recently I have decided to replace my HDD (Samsung 500gb) which came with the system and bought a SSD. So I put the SSD as the first drive unit and replaced my optical drive with a HDD bay and the original HDD. I started Windows from the HDD in the optical slot to backup my data and did not have any problems. Then I installed a new Windows on the SSD. My first move was to erase the old Windows partition from the HDD which ran smoothly. Then I installed my first application on the second HDD, which was Firefox. Immediatelly I figured that there was something wrong. The access time of the 2nd HDD was very very very slow. Every software that I install or download, or every folder that I try to access I have to wait 1 or 2 minutes before Windows stops processing the request. After I already have access to the folder, the problem only happens again if the software tries to write anything to that folder. For example, Firefox and its Temp data. I have tried many things but still couldn't come with an answer. Can anyone help me? - Index is disabled - Windows search is disabled - Cache is enabled on the 2nd HDD Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ As my problems continued, I have tried a new approach. I erased everything again. Both Drives. After a clean install of Windows, I did not disable/enable anything regarding performance improvements or tweaks for my SSD. So far, everything is running better. I'll continue testing and report back in case there are any news.