SSD setup help

hawker1986 · 14 May 2009 at 09:12

Hi guys,

I know there have been lots of threads like this here so I apologise in advance for that, but I cant find all the info im after. Ive finally taken the SSD plunge and got a G.Skill Falcon 128GB, its exactly the same drive as the OCZ Vertex with 1370 firmware loaded.

So my main question is how should I run my SATA controller, ive only got one so ive got no need of RAID and will running ACHI be of any benefit over just plain IDE?

Also if anyone can be bothered to re-iterate (or link me to a decent guide which im struggling to find myself) for me the basic tweaks I need to do on vista 64 to get the best performance I would be hugely grateful.

Thanks very much guys,

Hawker

Popov · 14 May 2009 at 11:23

The best place to look is the ocz forum, there are some good threads on there and advice given straight from the manufacturer. This thread here has some good tweaks which I think covers most of the basic windows tweaks you need to do (second post) http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17991636

FaceplantSi · 14 May 2009 at 11:49

ACHI mode should do fine, and as far as the tweaks goes I did the tweaks as per this OCZ link but I didn't do the SecondLevelDataCache tweak (about half-way down post#1)

hawker1986 · 14 May 2009 at 11:54

Thanks guys thats really helpful, Im really looking forward to getting my hands on this thing

Hawker

FaceplantSi · 14 May 2009 at 12:08

Welcome to the club!

hawker1986 · 15 May 2009 at 11:42

Hey Guys,

I really appreciate all your help, ive got my SSD infront of me, and im going to align it but I was wondering what offset I should use, different guides say different things and I dont want to get this bit wrong. Im not using RAID BTW.

Thanks

Hawker

FaceplantSi · 15 May 2009 at 11:47

I used an offset of 128k, although tbh Vista can do it itself but I wanted manual control.

hawker1986 · 15 May 2009 at 11:51

thanks faceplantsi, did u align it using diskpar?

Hawker

FaceplantSi · 15 May 2009 at 12:03

Yes i did use Diskpar - followed the instruction on this OCZ Forum post here.

Had mine in RAID so also needed the driver avail but you should be ok for that with a single drive.

hawker1986 · 15 May 2009 at 21:48

hey all,

Just wanted to say thanks again for all your help, ive got it up and running (for some reason W7 RC1 doesnt want to install, i think its a bad burn) on vista x64 and its flying along, getting peak reads of 252mb/s and writes of 192mb/s on ATTO and no degredation so far, ill post some screens later on when ive got it up and running a bit further.

Hawker

FaceplantSi · 16 May 2009 at 09:57

Glad to hear it's on and also running very well by the sounds of it, well done and welcome to the club!