joe_intel, thanks for your reply, great to hear from an Intel rep!I believe that I found the issue, was waiting a couple of days to make sure, am now sure it was partition alignment. This was checked a couple of times since Windows 8 Pro was installe...
Though the Intel 330 180GB SSD has ran well since the summer of 2012, after upgrading from Windows 8 Pro to 8.1, performance has gone downhill. Have ran the TRIM tool in the SSD Toolbox as instructed, I also used that app to do the system tuning at s...