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In there a general consensus on "best" alignment then? Windows 7 does 1024k by default, I know forno (and others?) have talked about using 64k... etc.
 
So is it possible to use an SSD for games and what ever else i want, and then a normal HDD for movies and the like? This is seperately not in RAID.

Probably the most noobish question you've ever seen, haha.
 
I'm about to order this drive 64GB version....Are the drives being shipped with the latest firmware for trim?


Also After fitting the drive in my laptop...Do I need to do anything other than just install windows 7 pro?

Slightly noobish questions from me I know...:p
 
easyrider said:
I'm about to order this drive 64GB version....Are the drives being shipped with the latest firmware for trim?


Also After fitting the drive in my laptop...Do I need to do anything other than just install windows 7 pro?

Slightly noobish questions from me I know...:p
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No - I think it extremely unlikely that you'll get the withdrawn firmware - so should be 1571 - with a new one along in a few weeks time. I posted some quotes from the Crucial forums earlier in the week from the staff/moderators there.

No - Windows 7 will align the drive and switch off features such as defrag for the SSD.
 
i got a new drive in the week (thursday) and it had v 1571 so you wil be ok with the drive.

I had never used raid in my pc so the jump to SSD was very nice, that and using windows 7 is all new and very quck from vista.

not looking forward to my pc at work it will be so slow now.

i got the 128 as i had already said 150 for a drive and the pre order was 199 so jumped at the extra speed and space.

Rich
 
I have an odd reported benchmark speed and would appreciate some pointers as to where the problem may lie.

I've just installed the 64GB M225, along with a fresh install of Win7 RC. I installed in ACHI mode and I installed the Biostar ACHI driver for my motherboard when I installed Win7.

The install went fine and windows definitely is a lot snappier, but I get a curious result when I run CrystalDiskMark. Here's what I mean:

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As you can see, my 4K read/writes are great, it's the sequential read/writes that seem low compared to others who have this drive.

All my motherboards drivers are up to date (using the Biostar drivers), I've manually disabled Superfetch in Services, along with canceling scheduled defrags. Rig as per sig.

Any pointers as to what this could be guys?

TIA :)
 
Dagwood,
Are you comparing against the 128gb/256gb results? The 64gb drives are slower, but I can't remember their numbers (earlier in this thread) but IIRC it looks similar to those.

You shouldn't need to disable superfetch and defrag in Win7, it disables them running on the SSD, but leaves them active on normal HDs which may still benefit.
 
ChileanLlama said:
Dagwood,
Are you comparing against the 128gb/256gb results? The 64gb drives are slower, but I can't remember their numbers (earlier in this thread) but IIRC it looks similar to those.

You shouldn't need to disable superfetch and defrag in Win7, it disables them running on the SSD, but leaves them active on normal HDs which may still benefit.
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Thanks for the reply :cool:

I wasn't comparing my results to the larger capacity drives, there are a couple of results for the 64GB model, and both their sequential read/write speeds were about 50MB faster than mine, but I have slightly better 4K speeds, which is the important thing :)

I'm wandering whether it has anything to do with the age of my AHCI driver. It's dated 06/05/08 and I can't find anything newer from either AMD or my motherboard manufacturer. Given that the Intel based systems have a newer driver, I'm wandering whether my speed difference is just a chipset anomaly.
 
|LBTG|Theos said:
Do we have any eta for the 64gb version of these drives?

I've been in the warehouse queue for over a week :(
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you're in the same boat as me, i'm itching to get two of these in RAID 0. I only have an ICH9 onboard controller, so i reckon i'll need a new controller to tame these beasts!
 
yeah it sucks :( I see all these awesome benchmarks and I can only dream of those speeds atm lol

check out my awesome 4k read and write speeds :P

0.537 and 1.966 lol they're so small :'(
 
raptormonkey said:
Strange how the drive would need to be setup to make it run the way it should. Can't they just be installed and then Win 7 put on without any tweaking?
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It's new tech, there's always extra tweaks to be done. If you want to just buy and install Win 7 like you would any normal hard drive wait till Win 7 is actually out and drives are shipping with firmware with trim support.

Seriously though if flashing firmware is too much for you then pc's probably aren't for you :P
 
Or flashing hard drives come to that, hardly a stretch.

Par for the course tbh, happens with newer tech. There were plenty of firmware updates with early sata hard drives.
 
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Just strange how new hardware needs a flash!! Not as if it is very old. I will stick with mechanical for now. Good thread though. Stopped me from rushing in and spending a lot of money on an SSD!!
 
Just how is that strange? You are being deliberately obtuse. I've been through 8 bios revisions on my new motherboard in a just a few months. It worked out the box, but they've improved features added cpu's etc. As has been explained to you at least a half dozen times, it'll work just fine out of the box. The new MS operating system offers features that have yet to be implemented and the firmware on all the new SSDs will need updating.
 
raptormonkey said:
Just strange how new hardware needs a flash!! Not as if it is very old. I will stick with mechanical for now. Good thread though. Stopped me from rushing in and spending a lot of money on an SSD!!
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That because its cutting edge tech. Mobo bios coming out each week etc...is well....Normal

This is a really noobish comment tbh. What person never flashes hardware?

A NOOB!:D
 
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