Installing a Vertex 2E

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The more I look at this the more complicated it gets ! As far as I can tell the procedure is as follows...

1) undo OC
2) Unplug old HDD
3) Change storage to AHCI in BIOS
4) Plug in new Vertex 2e 120Gb to Intel sata ports (blue)
5) Install W7 64 to Vertex
6) Install Intel RST drivers (not sure how to do this)
7) Open RST in system tray and check that disk data cache is ennabled
8) Run WEI
9) Disable drive indexing and any defrags
10) Check that write back cache is enabled in device manager.
11) Profit !

Then there's the problem of the SMART error. If so, I'll need to Flash the BIOS. Which I have no idea how to do.

Can anyone tell me

a) If I've got the procedure above right ?
b) How install Intel RST drivers ?
b) How do you flash the Gigabyte mainboard ?

Thanks in advance
 
1)remove old hardrive.
2)install new hardrive.
3)install windows 7 64 bit.
4)run wei.
5) profit!!

Well thats what i did with me vertex 2e 64gb one.
There are a couple of other things u can do but thats ^^ about it.
and i never install more drivers, i may be crazy but everything always seems to work perfectly until i install more and more drivers!!
and as far as flashing your gigabyte board you should not need to do it for the vertex drive, but if u do its as simple as downloading the bios of the gigabyte website getting a usb stick putting the bios file on the usb stick restarting your pc.
Then starting the bios flash program for that motherboard. (there will be instructions to doing so in the gigabyte motherboard manual)
 
trisp said:
1)remove old hardrive.
2)install new hardrive.
3)install windows 7 64 bit.
4)run wei.
5) profit!!

Well thats what i did with me vertex 2e 64gb one.
There are a couple of other things u can do but thats ^^ about it.
and i never install more drivers, i may be crazy but everything always seems to work perfectly until i install more and more drivers!!
and as far as flashing your gigabyte board you should not need to do it for the vertex drive, but if u do its as simple as downloading the bios of the gigabyte website getting a usb stick putting the bios file on the usb stick restarting your pc.
Then starting the bios flash program for that motherboard. (there will be instructions to doing so in the gigabyte motherboard manual)
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Hmmmmm. Seems too easy. Are you sure ?
 
Disabling overclock is just so that if something goes wrong you can rule that out as a cause. I'd say do this:

1) Change storage to AHCI in BIOS (dunno why you're not using this in the first place though)
2) Plug in new Vertex 2e 120Gb to Intel sata ports (blue)
3) Install W7 64 to Vertex
4) Install all important system drivers (chipset, graphics, Intel RST).
5) Open RST in system tray and check that disk data cache is enabled
6) Disable file content indexing (optionally turn it off completely) for SSD and double-check that Windows has correctly disabled scheduled defrags for SSD
7) Run WEI

I think it would be better to leave write caching enabled - this is a Windows feature and not really to do with the drive itself. Maybe do some research on different forums first though.
 
I got one of these and stupidly (with hindsight) tried to update the firmware.

I left it to do its stuff for a while then got a BSOD. When the PC rebooted the drive is no longer present, so I'm guessing the firmware update and BSOD has knackered it.

Edit: The drive is back after leaving the power switched off for a few minutes but the Win7 installation on it is kaput.

Let this be a lesson not to tamper with stuff ;)
 
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Mean Mr Mustard said:
I got one of these and stupidly (with hindsight) tried to update the firmware.
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Does the SSD you updated the firmware on also happen to hold your Windows install?

On the OCZ forums where the latest firmware update was first posted there is a warning, posted as an update to the release thread highlighting your problem.

I highly recommend installing this update as a secondary drive. This FW makes changes that seem to "upset" Windows more than past updates. BSOD is likely and the drive may "disappear" until you power off the computer if you update when the OS is running from the drive.
Linky
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Wouldn't be surprised if the warning never made it onto their website.

I'm stuck on the 1.11 firmware as their update tool can't find my drive no matter what I do. Bizarre considering their drive erase/system utility tool will.
 
Fourstar said:
Does the SSD you updated the firmware on also happen to hold your Windows install?

On the OCZ forums where the latest firmware update was first posted there is a warning, posted as an update to the release thread highlighting your problem.


Wouldn't be surprised if the warning never made it onto their website.

I'm stuck on the 1.11 firmware as their update tool can't find my drive no matter what I do. Bizarre considering their drive erase/system utility tool will.
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Yep it contained the Win7 install and I was running the update tool from that installation. As you say, they should really put a warning on the download section of the site, rather than hiding it away in the forums.

Anyway, all's well that end's well, drive is up and running the 1.23 firmware.

Problem is, having seen what they can do I want more SSDs now for my Steam installation, more games, etc and I don't think my bank account would be able to take the strain. :)
 
Intel RST

I guess to use TRIM functionality you need to use version 10.xxxx - but they are still in Beta State.

Uhm... I just tried that and my disk performance decreased by round about 5% so i'm not sure whether it's good or not ...

i guess this depends on your system configuration :-)

*medison
 
I would use the 9.6s, but I think the trim work on whatever version you install, bit ppl say that the trim dont work correctly with 10.xxxx.
 
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