I'm runnning Acronis True Image Home 2010 build 7046, and it absolutely retains alignment when re-imaging from an *aligned* WD HDD, to an aligned/formatted Intel X25-M ssd... FYI.
For those of you who are newbies to SSD's, you do NOT defrag them, ever. It just wastes a limited number of write cycles, and it does not speed up file access at all.
Tweakboy and oldhippie, you should be banned from posting for a month for posting this well-known nonsense!
FYI, I bought Acronis Home, and use it to clone my ssd OS to three backup HD's. I originally cloned an aligned 250GB WD HD to my X25-M, and it worked just fine.
Jaydee, YES you can align in XP. There's guides on several storage forums on how to do this. Both of my x25-m's are aligned, and even though they are gen1's they are fast.
I used AS SSD to bench both of my gen 1 80 GB Intel X25's weekly, for a YEAR, and only saw the typical, expected degradation of a non-GC, non-trim drive.
I ran mine with esata for awhile, as a backup drive. It was listed in disk management as a different type of drive, unlike the internal sata hdds, but I don't remember what, exactly.
It still worked just like any connected hd.
My esata stopped working, now I run it thru usb...
MR, if you correctly partition the SSD before cloning to it, Acronis True Image Home will preserve the partion offset.
It sounds like your current drive has more than 80GB on it - that's a danger sign. You want to try to have at least 20GB free on the 80GB SSD to have effectively low write...
I've got an XP Pro system with 2 Gen 1 X25's in it. They work great.
I don't know if you can clone from an un-aligned HD to an aligned SSD. I aligned my HD's (3 of them in rotation) before I used WD 'clone' s/w to restore to SSD. It kept alignment. I ended up buying Acronis True Image Home...
Can you, or can you not, BOOT windows after powering off? If you can run windows, it's not an ssd problem, it's a windows problem trying to end a process. Check Event Viewer in Admin Tools to see.
Write caching has a huge impact on benchmark writes.
In -IDE- mode (which is slower than AHCI),
With cache OFF
4k read: 19.68 4k write: 3.72
With cache ON
4k read: 20.12 4k write: 45.11
You first run CCleaner: Options, settings, wipe free space (to your SSD drive). Then check Wipe free space in the Cleaner/Windows tab. This will take quite a while.
Then run AS-cleaner / Freespacecleaner.exe.
This will improve your AS SSD benchmarks. I don't notice any difference in...
I used Western Digitals Data Lifeguard Tools to clone my XP HD to my X25. It's not a sector-by-sector clone, so the alignment from your partitioning is not affected.
I can't tell you the difference, but I'm running two Intel 80GB Gen 1's, one for OS/pgms, the other for OS and Photoshop swap.
I seem to see much better performance, in comparison to what posters with just one drive say ("it doesn't seem faster than a Raptor!", etc).
It makes sense to me...
I run -full- scans in NOD32, Malwarebytes and SuperAntiSpyware -at the same time- while surfing, and there's NO lag in IE8. Pages load just as fast, and scroll without pauses. Gives the cpu a workout, though!
You completely missed my point. The OP wanted to know why sequential was faster than 4k. My point was that in order for an SSD to give the OS 4k, it has to read a much larger chunk (since that's all it can do -as a minimum-), and then pick the 4k out of that larger chunk (which takes -more-...
Ccleaner & AS Clean.exe will 'wipe' free space, and speedup the drives.
I've found my two G1's perform very well, even after months of not wiping them.
AS SSD shows performance falling fairly quickly after a wipe, but I've never noticed it in actual use. The G1's are great drives!
It's not the same as trim. It will write hex FF's or 00's to empty blocks, and may increase speeds for awhile. It writes to all the blank space of your drive, so it's a fairly large impact to lifetime. It -does- improve small-file performance on my Intel gen-1 drives.
Turn on AHCI, turn on disk write caching, and fix your alignment.
You'll need to do research so you know how to do all of this in XP.
PC Perspective Forums and OCZ SSD forums have the best guides.
My X25's (OS and swap) really speeded up Bridge. RAW conversions seem to take about the same amount of time. Actions in CS4 are ~10% faster.
CS4 opens about 3 times faster!!!
The other benefits of SSD's makes it worthwhile. You'll see... :D
You want to turn off the POWER SUPPLY power switch, but leave the cords plugged in. You need to unpower the motherboard, but you want everything grounded. If you have a wrist grounding strap, use it, otherwise ground yourself by touching the PC case every little while (you can build up static...
Google Microsoft SSD paper. -THEY- insist you put the swap file on SSD (and they know what they are talking about).
Frankly, no typical desktop home user is going to hit the lifetime of a reasonably full SSD before you build/buy a new PC or upgrade the drives. In 5 months, with a fair...
In the case of Intel SSD's, it's 'common knowledge' that you can write 20GB a day to the drive, and expect a 5 year lifetime. In my case, I have 889 hours of up-time on my C drive, and have written 2.50 TB to it. SMART says I've used up ~2% of the drives' lifetime.
Search my prior posts for G1 benches. They are better when thoroughly used than the competitors with trim enabled! You can run AS-cleaner.exe to reset the unused cells to avoid the erase-then-write slowdown, too.
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