Crucial C300 SSD SATA III
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This is my first SSD and loading programs is where I notice the difference most, file access is quicker too which is nice when dealing with large RAW photos.
I have now got one the 256 Gb ones and a Highpoint RocketRaid card to add USB 3 to my system. As this is my first SSD I just wanted to check that I am setting it up in the best way.
As far as I can see the steps to take are:
1. Install it in the pc
2. On boot set the drive to AHCI
3. Start the Windows 7 install
4. When prompted point the installer at the drivers for the Highpoint card.
5. Create a partition in the normal way and load windows
6. Then add the latest intel chipset drivers.(which will sort the rest of the motherboard out but not affect the SSD as it is on the Highpoint card).
7. Then add the latest drivers and updates for my GTX 280 and sound card.
8. Followed by any apps that I want on there.
How does this look?
As far as I can see the steps to take are:
1. Install it in the pc
2. On boot set the drive to AHCI
3. Start the Windows 7 install
4. When prompted point the installer at the drivers for the Highpoint card.
5. Create a partition in the normal way and load windows
6. Then add the latest intel chipset drivers.(which will sort the rest of the motherboard out but not affect the SSD as it is on the Highpoint card).
7. Then add the latest drivers and updates for my GTX 280 and sound card.
8. Followed by any apps that I want on there.
How does this look?
I have sent a webnote to Highpoint.
On their website it says that the adaptor is fully AHCI compliant.
I guess I can check the disabledeletenotify property after the install is finished.
Those drives are so tasty. I was thinking of getting one of those ssds.
The disabledeletenotify doesn't tell you if it's working with the hdd - just that it's enabled.
Be interesting to find out what Highpoint say.
Finally got an answer from Highpoint, this being:
TRIM is a disk function, so this should not be a problem (the card will not disable this ability).
Yes, you can use single drives. If the disk is new, you can create a single-disk JBOD "array).
If the disk already contains date, it will be recognized as a "legacy" drive, and will not need to be configured by the controller.
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Does the driver of the Highpoint card pass through the TRIM command though? Currently the only driver known to pass the TRIM command is the default msahci driver built into Windows 7.
To see whether it's enabled, go to the Command Prompt and type:
fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
DisableDeleteNotify = 1 (Windows TRIM commands are disabled)
DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Windows TRIM commands are enabled)
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That only reports if the OS has TRIM enabled, not that it's actually getting to the drive.
I think the only way to test if TRIM is working is to test the drive when you first get it, then fill the drive as full as you can and then delete the files and then bench again and see if performance is about the same as when empty or if performance has dropped.
Hay guys,
I`ll be looking for a 250GB SSD drive in the next some months to go with my new high end computer i`ll be building real soon - max budget for quality SSD drive £600.
I take it this 250GB SSD is a very fast quality drive and well worth the money???
Thanks for responding.
I`ll be looking for a 250GB SSD drive in the next some months to go with my new high end computer i`ll be building real soon - max budget for quality SSD drive £600.
I take it this 250GB SSD is a very fast quality drive and well worth the money???
Thanks for responding.
I thought that the both MS IDE driver (PCIIDE.SYS) and MS AHCI driver (MSAHCI.SYS) pass the TRIM command to the SSD.
The AHCI driver can improve drive performance by using native command queuing. It also offers drive hot-plugging.
I can say that it is very fast, have look at my benchmarks:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=16101158&postcount=115
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=16101201&postcount=1142
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Yeah my mistake the MS IDE driver should work fine for TRIM too, just assumed most would be using the AHCI driver.
I can say that it is very fast, have look at my benchmarks:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=16101158&postcount=115
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=16101201&postcount=1142
Yeah, I noticed in those benchmarks the drive looks very fast.
At the moment I have a Intel X25-M Mainstream 80GB SSD in my laptop but I don`t like the slow write performance of this drive.
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Hi
One thing I needed to know but forgot to ask is does this SSD have any tools that you can get from the company so you can manually TRIM the drive in case your using drivers that don`t support automatic TRIM???
Thank you for responding.
One thing I needed to know but forgot to ask is does this SSD have any tools that you can get from the company so you can manually TRIM the drive in case your using drivers that don`t support automatic TRIM???
Thank you for responding.
They have one called the “Crucial Wiper” that works on their other series but not on the C300s. Although I've yet to try it from a boot disk.