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Do you think we'll likely be seeing this update this week ?...or even today?

Really want to get it installed with win7 now as my current vista installs playing up.
 
so whats the lifetime length of these drives?

are they built to last or crap out within a few years?

no moving parts should equal a long length but any 1 care to enlighten me?
 
horse said:
so whats the lifetime length of these drives?

are they built to last or crap out within a few years?

no moving parts should equal a long length but any 1 care to enlighten me?
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The drives have a 5 year warranty so I would presume if they stopped working during that time you would be covered. Crucial warranty service is pretty awesome to be honest, it was one of the main reasons I went with Crucial for my SSD.
 
I ordered mine when the website said out of stock, but it shipped the next day, When I mentioned I was told they had stock all along??
Not complaining mind you, I was happy to wait as its still sitting here waiting for the flash and win 7 :)
 
johnerz said:
I ordered mine when the website said out of stock, but it shipped the next day, When I mentioned I was told they had stock all along??
Not complaining mind you, I was happy to wait as its still sitting here waiting for the flash and win 7 :)
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Are we expected the M225 to get a firmware flash to support TRIM sometime soon?

I wonder how the W7 launch date affects SSD drive availability and pricing - surely there's going to be massive demand for SSD over the next month or so. Then maybe a price drop in Dec, or more likely January?
 
Anyone know if TRIM/Wiper is supported on OSX, specifically Snow Leopard. Had a quick google but found nothing conclusive, don't want to pay £200 for a drive that won't outperform my current F1 by some margin over time.
 
tsinc80697 said:
Anyone know if TRIM/Wiper is supported on OSX, specifically Snow Leopard. Had a quick google but found nothing conclusive, don't want to pay £200 for a drive that won't outperform my current F1 by some margin over time.
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"TRIM is not available on Mac OS X Leopard. It is expected to be supported only in Mac OS X Snow Leopard."

Probably.
 
rpsgc said:
"TRIM is not available on Mac OS X Leopard. It is expected to be supported only in Mac OS X Snow Leopard."

Probably.
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Thanks, I'm going to be using it with Snow Leopard but wanted to get one and get SL installed at the weekend. Will there be any problems if I installed the OS and then TRIM was introduced? Would it be a firmware update or newer versioned HDD?
 
Durzel said:
There wouldn't be any problems as such, but you should expect performance to drop gradually as you fill up the drive.
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Thanks, how full will affect performance? I only need 50GB max so not sure whether to spend the extra £100 to get the 128GB even though I won't need the space.

Just wouldn't want to spend £115 and after putting 50GB onto it it's not much faster than my current F1 1TB
 
tsinc80697 said:
Thanks, how full will affect performance? I only need 50GB max so not sure whether to spend the extra £100 to get the 128GB even though I won't need the space.

Just wouldn't want to spend £115 and after putting 50GB onto it it's not much faster than my current F1 1TB
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People need to work out that "most" of the performance drop is completely and utterly undetectable by anything but benchmarks, even there, with the "massive" drop in performance, which is actually not particularly huge, it will still wipe the floor with any mechanical HDD. The performance drop maybe be say, instead of being 100 times faster at the 4kb random writes, it might be 75 times faster.

Frankly most people do what they can to minimise usage of their ssd's anyway, OS, most frequently used apps and games, I put games I'm just having a quick blast through, like COD 4 which I'm playing again, on a normal HDD(its not realistically slower in things like games). I have Lotro on the SSD as I play it frequently with lots of slower loads going on all the time.

THe fact is there probably isn't that many situations where wiper will ever take a drive from sluggish to uber fast. If you're constantly reinstalling things on your ssd, or constantly downloading and unraring things to the drive then maybe your unrar'ing will take a little longer than it should. But heres the thing, realistically you don't want to be doing your downloading to your SSD in the first place.

After your OS is on and your main games installed, there shouldn't be a whole lot of writing going on and the writing that happens, will usually be small and not performance important files, like internet cache as you surf. Read's and loading will be the majority of the workload once you've got your system up and running, with which wiper won't change speeds much at all.

I've noticed no performance drop AT ALL with my Crucials since I got them, its still incredibly responsive, still install the odd thing and have no issues then either. Game loading is as fast as it was ages ago, TRIM, is almost completely unimportant for most people.

Yes a nice background garbage collection "might" help, but more for piece of mind than actual tangible benefits.
 
You've actually taken steps to optimise your setup though and you're probably not a typical user as far as computer hardware goes. I haven't bothered disabling anything manually with mine, I just let Windows 7 do whatever it needed to do. In that regard I'd class myself as a "typical SSD user".

Whilst it's fair to say anyone buying an SSD probably has an idea that they're "a bit different" I doubt they'd all know the benefits or downsides of disabling (or not) indexing, system restore, etc. Most I imagine would just plug it in and expect everything to work ok.

Also saying "frankly most people do what they can to minimise usage of their SSD's anyway" is a bit presumptuous isn't it? How do you know this is the case? I bought a 256GB SSD specifically so I could speed up as much stuff as possible, and on certain operating systems (OSX specifically) it's not always easy to specify which drive(s) it decides to store things on.
 
Is SSD (this crucial one) faster than the new velociraptor 150gb/300gb drives? Ive been searching the net yesterday and found mixed reviews. Some people saying the SSD and some people saying the Veloci
 
Yes, it's faster.

This is a compare of a Win7 install on WD 'Raptor, which is then acronis'd over to the SSD.
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I think im going to install win 7 today ,im not too fussed about re-formatting once the new firmware's out.

Just a few things before i do.....i know they may have been covered earlier.

My mobos a Asus P5KI ...in the bios i have the option of SATA/IDE /AHCI or compatible

Whats the best option to set it to?


Also with windows 7 is it best to install the latest chipset drivers to get the best from the drive,or is it best for the default win 7 drivers?

Also once installed ,whats best to turn off?

System restore
Indexing

Are these best to be left on or turned off?....Is there anything else i should turn off to get the best from the drive?

Many thanks
 
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