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Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:07 pm
by Darkfoxx
Love you Jif!

I disabled most services...personal preference. Deal with it. Not because I didn't want indexing and superfetch, but those services need to be disabled for the SSD to perform properly.

These are the bare minimum you need to turn off if you have an SSD:
1 Superfetch
2 Windows Defragmenter
3 Drive Indexing

Oh, and I finally got Steam working thanks to this post
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... stcount=10

I kept getting this error:

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:09 pm
by Jif
i added QL back. not sure if ill use it or not. i will definitely enable it @ work if if supports networked shortcuts

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:02 am
by Tanis Half Elf
Before anyone else gets the student deal for home premium, check out this link.
http://www.microsoft.com/student/discou ... fault.aspx

Here in the bottom right hand corner you will see that you can get Windows7 Professional for the same price as home premium!

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:20 pm
by Jif
i did the ultimate steal for my cousin a few years ago. it worked great. you get an ISO but can buy a pressed disc for extra. only took like hours from start to finish, including the download and resetting the password for his old college email address

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 1:11 am
by TexRob
I am downloading Torchlight and Aion, not sure if that impacted my performance. I'll run this again tomorrow, but it should be slower than Justin's, so... still seems like a lot slower on the 4k tests.

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CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (C) 2007-2008 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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Sequential Read : 213.827 MB/s
Sequential Write : 188.840 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 141.041 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 126.497 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 18.144 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 8.201 MB/s

Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/12/05 1:11:08

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:11 am
by Elric of the void
lolz welcome to my hell foxxy, I got that steam error way back in day, check form you'll find the images i posted of that. The ONLY way I found to fix it back then was to do a full reformat, beyond that I tried everything and was 100% unsuccessful in fixing it.

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 12:11 pm
by Darkfoxx

Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 10:59 am
by TexRob

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:00 pm
by Darkfoxx
Roughly 48 days have past since I installed my SSD and benchmarked it for the first time.

Again, this is for my own reference to document its performance over time.



62.6 GB free of 119 GB.

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:58 pm
by Jif
post all the pics on the 1st post so we can compare

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 2:09 pm
by Darkfoxx

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 2:17 pm
by Jif
wow thats awesome to see some performance actually go up over time. i guess that's TRIM keeping the speeds up and then who knows what else giving a performance boost. did you upgrade the firmware between the october and today tests?

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 3:02 pm
by Darkfoxx
Yeah the original benchmark is with the factory firmware (1.1).

The benchmark from today is 1.4.

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 3:30 pm
by TexRob
In theory, with TRIM, there should be no degradation over time from what I understand. Fragmentation shouldn't really be an issue as there is no physical seek time, which is why I still don't understand why some people say defragging an SSD is a good idea...

Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:12 pm
by Darkfoxx
Defragging is a bad idea. I hear it causes more harm than good on an SSD, and this is why I completely disabled defragging on my computer. If you read on the OCZ forums, they have a couple stickied posts that suggest what to turn off on Windows for optimal SSD performance.