Recent content by SteveBijer

Thanks Razel for the idea of reformatting them in a Win7 system.... Would the recovered top speed LAST at least 3 months?? Otherwise it is TOO much work. Thanks kmmatney for mentioning Intel (G2 +).... What about Kingston V+100 series with GC just for XP ?? Their price/GB is 60% less than...

1st, WOW, thanks everyone for your input ! SADLY, I am CONFUSED by the "contradictory?" advice and info :-( It seems that manual trim are both "4-letter" words. :-D My goal is to restore "like-new" speed (as needed) while using the SSD for the next ~2 years. You are right...

? How best to manually trim SSD in Win XP ? My laptop & 2 desktops all use Win XP. Each has a almost new SSD from OCZ for the boot & data partitions. What tool manually trims best? "AS Cleaner" using FF mode (freeware 0.5) or "CCleaner" using 'secure 1-pass file deletion' (freeware...