>>Did you receive the machine with the SSD already installed, or is that an upgrade you did later? If you upgraded it yourself, exactly how did you do it? Did you use any imaging software such as Acronis which might still be running in Windows on the new SSD?
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>I happen to be quite a fan of Acronis - IMO the best way is to use their stuff, but never from windows, always start backups from USB or DVD based on their Linux ;-)
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>Depending on automatic wizardy in your day-to-day working alone will bite you sooner, later or both ;-)))

I'm not suggesting Acronis is bad, it's worked OK in my limited experience. I'm just trying to isolate apps, services or processes that may hook the file system with a possible performance hit.

I've already suggested pretty much all of my troubleshooting suite with this issue. Do you have any other ideas?