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MetricGnome

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Hey guys,

I've got an 80GB Intelx25-M SSD running Win7 64bit. I have the drive partitioned as such:

C: 60GB
System Reserved: 100mb
Data: 15GB - Where I keep my stuff
Running AHCI mode in BIOS - Was installed as such

I am running the latest firmware and have run the intel SSD toolbox /w a 2 week schedule. I have also disabled the schedule disk defragmenter in Windows.

Anything wrong here? Any settings I have overlooked? Why does my Random Write speed suck?

 
Also if you are using the built in Windows 7 AHCI SATA drivers and have the current firmware you do not need to have the toolbox scheduled or even installed really. TRIM is automatic. With Intel RAID controllers the newest drivers that Greg linked also support TRIM.
 
Do you like your intel ssd.I am really looking hard at this drive?
 
DrDoU said:
Do you like your intel ssd.I am really looking hard at this drive?
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Me? I freaking love it.... cold boot to opening firefox in literally about 15 to 20 seconds max. I only see the Windows 7 "welcome" screen for a split second. I know a few have had issues or been less than impressed but the majority who have them are loving them. I guess if you are coming from a 4 drive RAID 0 array of velociraptors it might not be as big of a difference but coming from a single run of the mill hard drive the difference is often stunning. For me personally it's been the single most significant and noticeable speed increase upgrade in many years. Just do it right, get the drive, make sure it has the latest firmware, unplug all other hard drives, set your SATA controller to ACHI mode in BIOS, and clean install Windows 7 on it. Once 7 is up and running then go back and reconnect other drives.
 
Owning this SSD has entirely changed how I view/use my computer. I will NEVER go back to a hard drive for my OS/Boot drive ever. In fact, I cannot wait until that netbook BIOS is given to PCs whereas you boot in literally 3 seconds from power on.

Having an SSD has spoiled me so much, that I almost just want to save up and buy 8 256GB SSD's and use them in a NAS/File Server/Media Server with ZFS....drool. Alas, by the time I had that much saved, we'll have 2TB SSDs. -_-

Thanks for checking for me, just wanted some piece of mind so to speak!
 
@MetricGnome; perhaps you already know this, but ZFS can use SSD's also as cache devices; caching the most frequently accessed parts of an array. So you can have a 10TB array on HDDs in a RAID-Z, and add one or two SSDs to the array as cache device. The SSDs will be used much like how RAM works to cache your files.

Even with a full 10TB array, likely only a small portion of this array is actively used ("every day"). These portions will be stored on the SSD. Better yet, ZFS works to analyse your usage pattern, so it automatically adapts to any change in your usage pattern. Quite sleek IMO!

So you can have SSD-like performance while not being tied to the low capacity of the SSDs; that's sleek.
 
perhaps you already know this, but ZFS can use SSD's also as cache
devices; caching the most frequently accessed parts of an array. So you can have a 10TB array on HDDs in a RAID-Z, and add one or two SSDs to the array as cache device.
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Interesting, I have wanted this feature for years at work and at home. Now only if linux supported zfs. And yes I know there is a fuse module but that was horrendously slow the last time I tested it. Less than 1/2 the read or write performance of xfs with the same partition.
 
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