Windows 7 Experience and SSD`s

mrix

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Hi all, I have had a new SSD for the past couple of months and within that time I have basically only added the windows 7 operating system to it and my steam games folder.

A few weeks ago I decided to check my windows 7 experience score and it showed my lowest was the SSD :eek: at 7.5 and while checking again today I notice the score has now dropped to 7.2 :eek:

As far as I know I don`t need to defrag the drive because it has something called trim?

Any idea`s?

cheers all
mrix
 
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Sorry, I just released I updated my bios just recently and the drive setting reverted back to IDE from AHCI, I have just changed it back AHCI and done a firmware update and the score has shot to 7.7 :)
Cheers
mrix
 
Is it wise to enable AHCI in the bios. I'm curious as I have a SSD (Crucial M225) and I never tried enabling that particular setting. The board was part of an OC'd bundle (board/ram/cpu/) and I didn't want to fiddle around with it!
 
I've seen the same happen with my Intel SSDs every time I update my video drivers of all things. TRIM is enabled and benchmarks show no loss of performance. My advice is to use a proper benchmarking tool. Windows Experience Index is best ignored completely IMHO.
 
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Hi there the the SSD is the OCZ limited edition 100gb
I understand that the windows experience is not that accurate but it must be positive if the SSD drive went from 7.2 to 7.7 just from changing bios settings ?
Cheers
mrix
 
Sightly OT, but anyone tell me how to update bios for an intel X25-M 80GB.
Does trim just work out the box or does something have to be set somewhere.
using windows 7 x64 Pro. (see sig)
 
to update the fw on the x-25m you need to dl the file from intels site. you need to make a bootable iso onto a cd, use imgburn or similar.boot from the cd to flash the ssd. when you have flashed the ssd go into windows and type in 'cmd' in search box, then type 'fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0'. to enable trim, then go to intels site again and dl the ssd toolbox, you then set the ssd to optimize using trim once a week.
hope this helps.
 
pooley said:
to update the fw on the x-25m you need to dl the file from intels site. you need to make a bootable iso onto a cd, use imgburn or similar.boot from the cd to flash the ssd. when you have flashed the ssd go into windows and type in 'cmd' in search box, then type 'fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0'. to enable trim, then go to intels site again and dl the ssd toolbox, you then set the ssd to optimize using trim once a week.
hope this helps.
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Thanks pooley, i found the stuff before your post. I didn't do the bit in bold though. I have used the toolbox to optimize once per week.

Do i need to do the bit in bold?
 
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