Yes the difference this driver made is very impressive I am very very glad i was directed to this website. And also a question for bankster55 you mentioned that these ssd's should be running with an offset of 2048k instead of 1024k is there any way to change this to the correct setting? And again thank you so much for your time, my machine is already running so much better the difference that driver made is just really impressive.
Yeah, those drivers do 2 main things -
>get trim working PROPERLY - garbage cleaning
>these are the first INTEL drivers (RST) that support >2.19TB drives - like if you bought one of the Hitatchi 7200RPM 3TB drives. Some guys are running these O.K. in
TRUE EFI, but are using MS drivers, not Intel.
As far as the correct 2048K offset, the prob is when you make the first partition, the offset is cemented in stone. To change offset you would have to move all the LBA addresses down in order to accomodate the larger first partition offset. The way you do it is with the Paragon PAT tool, which will move all the hex addresses in preboot mode. The bigger the drive, the longer it takes obviously - took me 1.5 hrs on a 2TB drive. PAT is 132MB, so its the real deal. I got it when it first came out and was free, I think its $30 now or free with Paragon retail PRO Partition sw. Its avail on the web if you know where to look.
It was originally for XP but later versions are more flexible
You MUST use V 2.0 or higher.
If it detects an SSD as I recall, it will auto create 2048K offset. Do not have more than one drive at a time connected or it will align them all
The easy way on a FRESH install is to use diskpart from cmd prompt of Win 7 DVD (repair your computer tools)
diskpart
lis dis
sel dis 0
clean
cre par pri size=32000 offset=2048
format fs=NTFS quick label="DSK0_VOL1"
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this assumes SSD is disk 0 (ZERO the number)
"clean" wipes the disk of any partitions/MBR/MFT/Partition table
Formatting is a waste of time as far as I am concerned.
32000 means 32GB (32000MB) - if you put no size it creates one big drive partition. When you install Win 7 it will make it active.
You can also do this with gparted 7.1.5 freesource linux boot disk, by setting "space before" to 2MiB - mebibyte - (2048K X 1024 per K = 2MiB base 2) first partition ONLY.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gpa...ble/0.7.1-5/gparted-live-0.7.1-5.iso/download
Diskpart, linux gparted bootiso, and PAT are the only three sw that can do this
And dskpart and gparted are the ONLY 2 tool that can create an actual full EFI GPT disk with the three GPT partition forms:
GPT Data filesystem and MSR protected and EFI system parttitions
http://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/components/partition-alignment/
https://www.paragon-software.com/product-tours/pat/presentation/index.htm
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?72550-Paragon-Alignment-Tool-2.0-Easily-Aligns-%28and-Re-Aligns%29-Your-SSD-Drives-amp-Partitions-On-The-Fly!
Edit:
Just curious are you a geekette?
kittysox doesnt seem very masculine - heh