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Will everybody stop talking about their drives please. I have just realised that not only do I not have my drive today, but I won't get it tomorrow when I am off as it is being delivered to work. :(
 
Greebo said:
Will everybody stop talking about their drives please. I have just realised that not only do I not have my drive today, but I won't get it tomorrow when I am off as it is being delivered to work. :(
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You know you could always pop into work and collect it in the afternoon. :confused:
 
I hear ya bro.



Im in a quandry. I have so many new components, GTX 285's, i7, 6Gb ram etc but my ****ing motherboard is broken and I have sooooooooo long to wait for an RMA.

I desperately want one of these SSD's but I can justify it without a pc :(
 
SlyReaper said:
You know you could always pop into work and collect it in the afternoon. :confused:
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I know and I might if I get that desperate but its a two and half hour round trip and a waste of that time on my precious day off.:(

Plus work is doing my head in atm so the further away from it the better. ;)
 
Vista 64, ACHI ICH10R iastor.sys

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If you want use wiper.exe (garbage cleaner, restores lost speed) then it wont work (sits there) with the iastor.sys Intel drivers. MS native drivers msahci.sys do work, but are a bit slower (below Vista 64 MS dated 2006) as far as I can see.

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Fornowagain...nice :) I'm getting slightly lower results on read, but slightly better on writes - but hardly anything in it - as my boot drive on ICH9R.

Got mine this AM 10:32 but had to collect it this evening...great service by OCUK - and your courier - thank you :D

...think I need to get another one now to try RAID0 :)
 
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CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (C) 2007-2008 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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Sequential Read : 229.197 MB/s
Sequential Write : 143.684 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 161.186 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 120.957 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 26.582 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 16.446 MB/s

Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/08/11 19:19:24

128Gb version on an IP35 Pro with windows 7 Default drivers
 
It's on the RAID - as I still have my other drives attached. But from what I understand single drives are treated as AHCI on the Intel controllers.

I did try the Intel 1023 drivers for Vista 64 instead of the W7 RTM drivers but I didn't see the same difference as you :s

I should have checked the speeds before putting the OS on it though...oh well too late now lol :D
 
Yeah if its a non member on RAID it'll act as AHCI. The W7 native drivers are dated 2008 iirc and I'd bet work a lot better than the native Vista 64 from 2006.

Its a pita for me on Vista 64. Until they get the TRIM running to use Wiper its the MS drivers or IDE mode.
 
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fornowagain said:
Yeah if its a non member on RAID it'll act as AHCI. The W7 native drivers are dated 2008 iirc and I'd bet work a lot better than the native Vista 64 from 2006.

Its a pita for me on Vista 64. Until they get the TRIM running to use Wiper its the MS drivers or IDE mode.
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Is it worth me getting the drivers specific to my board or leaving it as it is for the time being?
 
Whats that do? Resets the unused cells to empty? Does that work if you dont have it in IDE mode? If so where can I get it?

Loads of questions!
 
Over time the drive will slow down, wiper is a manual garbage collector and clean. It's a beta released by Indilinx, you should find a 0525 version on ocz forum (I won't link it, not hard to find). It won't work with Intel drivers iastor.sys and AHCI, use either IDE or MS native AHCI drivers.
 
128gb Crucial
Win 7 RTM x64

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CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (C) 2007-2008 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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Sequential Read : 218.453 MB/s
Sequential Write : 138.639 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 157.642 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 120.585 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 29.764 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 16.457 MB/s

Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/08/11 22:14:34
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Not sure what to think, maybe a bit more room for improvement???

Cant find any other drivers on the GB site for the board, and sata ports are running in ide mode... For some reason, in AHCI mode, I cant boot from cdrom!!
 
just installed my 64gb, fresh install of W7 64bit RTM. Took 11min 45secs to install :D:D

love it!

who ever says W7 is optimised for SSD, i dont think it is, my defrag is also on as default. Need to have a play around, but everything is stunningly fast :)
 
1. Open a cmd box, type Diskpart

2. List disk

3. select disk ? (where ? is your SSD, usually 0 for the main drive, if you're not sure check in disk management, that's right click the 'computer' icon)

4. list partition (will display a list of partitions and their alignment offset)

5. What does it say for offset? (Default on mine is 1024 ~ 1048576 bytes)

6. exit

7. fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo ?: (type this in with the correct drive letter)

8. What does it say under 'bytes per cluster'? (normally 4096)

9. exit

The 'Partition Offset / File Allocation Unit Size' should be an Integer (whole number)

Default is 1048576/4096 = 256 so all is well.
 
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