Recent content by skid00skid00

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!

Dude, it's the internet. It's REAL easy to find out what MTBF means...

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.

Do yourselves a favor, and peruse AVComparatives website for unbiased AV testing.

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'm getting 20-21 on my X25 G1 after hdderase (fresh/fast).

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...

Tony trim did NOT help my G1's. Only secure erase did the trick. FYI.

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.

I've got 2 1GB sticks of DDR2 800 and 2 1GB sticks of DDR2 566 overclocked on my D975xbx2 mobo (famous for blowing slot 3 memory). 2.5 years, now...

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