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I've got 2 Intel X25-M's, 80GB, gen 1. I've aligned them on XP, and run them in AHCI mode. They've made a wonderful difference in performance for my overclocked Intel E6600. Since these SSD's are the first generation, they do not support Trim, and have shown fluctuating benchmark performance. (I've not sensed this change in responsiveness...)
Here's my slowest AS SSD bench:
And here's the best:
Here, you can see a summary of 3 months of testing. The first four gaps for the F drive are where I ran PD10 Consolidate Free Space + Ccleaner's Wipe Free Space. The last gap is where I ran ONLY AS-cleaner (zero bytes, not FF). I'll only be running AS-cleaner from now on. It writes a single file to the empty areas, so you get significant 'wear'. In my case, it's worth about a week's worth of normal usage. On the C drive, the last two data points are AS-cleaner FF bytes, then 00 bytes.
I hope this is interesting, and helps those of you using Gen 1 X25's.
Here's my slowest AS SSD bench:
And here's the best:
Here, you can see a summary of 3 months of testing. The first four gaps for the F drive are where I ran PD10 Consolidate Free Space + Ccleaner's Wipe Free Space. The last gap is where I ran ONLY AS-cleaner (zero bytes, not FF). I'll only be running AS-cleaner from now on. It writes a single file to the empty areas, so you get significant 'wear'. In my case, it's worth about a week's worth of normal usage. On the C drive, the last two data points are AS-cleaner FF bytes, then 00 bytes.
I hope this is interesting, and helps those of you using Gen 1 X25's.