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I just wanted to mention something that may be important to anyone who might want to use the firmware I referenced in my original post. I neglected to mention (and had forgotten about until today) that when Kingston support gave me the link to the firmware, they said it is "Beta". So this is...

I didn't notice what the firmware version was on the drive before the upgrade, other than I did notice when I did the update that the version changed to 322. It had been a different version but I don't recall what it version that was. I didn't do any benchmarks.

I had sent the same question to Kingston support. I also posted it here because I thought I would get a quicker answer. Kingston responded faster than I thought. They said: You need to have Windows installed first. Then do the upgrade. Please be sure to select the F6 drivers when prompt to do...

I e-mailed Kingston tech support and they replied within a day with an FTP link, user name, and password. I am not sure they would want me to give that info out (and it may have been a one-time set up for me.) If you e-mail them they should send you the link. As an alternative, it is only a 5...

Thanks. I do it in this order: 1. update firmware 2. format and partition 3. install the OS Another question: in one of the SSD guides it suggested only partitioning 75% of the capacity and leaving the other 25% unallocated. Is that right?

I have a new Kingston HyperX 120 GB SSD scheduled to be delivered later today. I intend it to be my Win 7 boot drive, formatted as one NTFS partition. I plan to do a fresh installation of Windows. This is my first SSD so I am not all that familiar with any differences in procedures used for...