SSD Setup Help

shadowake · 22 Jul 2009 at 12:22

Just took delivery of a G.Skill Falcon (64GB). Never had an SSD before so have no idea if there is anything special I need to do.

Planning to install Windows 7 on it. Can I just stick it in and follow the setup as normal?

Do I need to update firmware etc?

Also apart from disabling defrag, is there anything else to do once in Windows?

:confused:

shadowake · 22 Jul 2009 at 14:35

rodders said:
Factory alignment is not suppose to be that good, so re-aligning is recommended.

How on earth do I do that :eek:

Is there some software to do it? :confused:

shadowake · 22 Jul 2009 at 16:35

Fire Wizard said:
Windows Vista takes care of alignment as well. It's Windows XP where you have to manually align it.

Panic averted lol.

So by the sounds my list of todo's is:

- Check for firmware update
- Install windows 7 normally
- Turn off defrag
- Move or turn off page file
- Move temp files
- Run TRIM every so often (weekly?)

shadowake · 22 Jul 2009 at 22:23

I've disabled it as I don't have another drive (yet). Going to get a 1TB F1 at some point, but I'll see how it runs turned off until I get the second drive.