Having had my ssd for 2 months now i was wondering if trim was working.
I know it is enabled because i have checked that i'm using the win 7 driver and have installed the drive as ahci, christal disk reports it's enabled.
Having run three ass ssd bench marks since new first two were 396, 407, but the third yesterday was only 362. I only use my intel x25mg2 for my os - win 7 home pr, all my games, steam etc are on a 1tb sata 3 hdd. Just to be sure i installed the intel toolbox and ran that then re-benched with no change same result, i read somewhere that a possible cause of ssd's slowing down could be the fact that system retore is enabled and as time goes by more restore points build up due to os updates thus slowing performance? Hving deleted restore points and re tested performance is restored.
I have not disabled prefetch yet, defrag is off.
And yes i know i do not need intel toolbox because win 7 uses trim by it self.
Will be using system restore to remove toolbox as i think if uninstall can lose ability to access sata drives? Is this correct? Or should i just leave toolbox installed now?
If the answer is yes, i can backup os to hdd in future and remove restore points.
found here :-http://thessdreview.blogspot.com/2010/05/windows-7-system-restore-and-your-ssd.html
I know it is enabled because i have checked that i'm using the win 7 driver and have installed the drive as ahci, christal disk reports it's enabled.
Having run three ass ssd bench marks since new first two were 396, 407, but the third yesterday was only 362. I only use my intel x25mg2 for my os - win 7 home pr, all my games, steam etc are on a 1tb sata 3 hdd. Just to be sure i installed the intel toolbox and ran that then re-benched with no change same result, i read somewhere that a possible cause of ssd's slowing down could be the fact that system retore is enabled and as time goes by more restore points build up due to os updates thus slowing performance? Hving deleted restore points and re tested performance is restored.
I have not disabled prefetch yet, defrag is off.
And yes i know i do not need intel toolbox because win 7 uses trim by it self.
Will be using system restore to remove toolbox as i think if uninstall can lose ability to access sata drives? Is this correct? Or should i just leave toolbox installed now?
If the answer is yes, i can backup os to hdd in future and remove restore points.
found here :-http://thessdreview.blogspot.com/2010/05/windows-7-system-restore-and-your-ssd.html
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