Recent content by leolo

Word of warning for anyone who dares to upgrade an ADATA SU800 model. I upgraded the firmware from version Q0125A to version Q0922FS using this tool: https://www.adata.com/en/download/410 And it DESTROYED ALL DATA ON THE DRIVE. Completely wiped everything. I've never seen this behaviour before...

Yes, I guess I could do some benchmarks to try to find differences in performance. But what I'm really interested in is longevity. Doing longevity tests usually means wearing out the drive. I cannot afford that :( intel could simply say "this cluster size will maximize the lifespan of...

Mmm, you're right. Those capacitors could easily change the firmware developer's mind... I guess our only option is to hear it from the horse's mouth. Could we ask Anand to try to extract this bit of info from someone at intel? I think it's a legitimate concern for us G3 owners. We need...

Thank you everyone for your replies. The behaviour suggested by imagoon seems quite logical. I suppose it is what a firmware developer would normally do, so I'll assume it's valid. Still, it would be wonderful to have a confirmation from intel, and a little bit more information about the...

razel, Yes, I agree that intel must be optimizing the amount of data in each page in order to not waste space, but there are several possible strategies. Like taltamir has said, what happens if you get an odd-numbered bunch of 4 KiB clusters? The last 8 KiB page won't have enough data to...

It was Anand himself who said it in his article: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4244/intel-ssd-320-review/2 razel, that's what I wanted to hear! But could you give some links to a source? It's not that I don't believe you, but I'd really like to read it from a relatively "authoritative"...

Hi people, I've just bought a 3rd Generation intel SSD (320 series). These new SSD use a page size of 8 KiB, which means that the minimum write size allowed is 8192 bytes. However, NTFS uses by default 4 KiB clusters (4096 bytes). That means that a single 4 KiB cluster written to the SSD...

Well, but... What if there are other hardlinks that exist outside of the c:\windows folder and are pointing to files inside c:\windows? Do I have to scan the entire drive? And how do I find duplicates? Yikes, measuring this is certainly much more annoying than I previously thought!

OK, I see. Thanks a lot for the explanation! Here are the corrected results, then: C:\Windows>du -u Du v1.33 - report directory disk usage Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com Files: 69101 Directories: 17499 Size: 15 610 000...

Use this tool to check the size of the WinSxS folder: http://technet.microsoft.com/e...nternals/bb896651.aspx Use the -u option, to count only unique occurences Here are my results (Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1): So, I guess that that quoted 400 MB figure was probably bullshit (or...

Hi, Just for the record: I can confirm that RefreshLock v2.21 works in my case. I can play at 1024x768 at 100 Hz. My hardware specs (only the relevant ones): Graphics card: Geforce 8600GT CRT monitor: Dell M993s Software specs: Windows Vista x64 with SP1 installed. nVidia geforce...