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    Performance worse after SSD alignment - confused

    Interesting to compare to my results: http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1022/11/ These guys are running their SATA at 3Gbps, which helps explain the sequential and threaded read differences, but I wonder why their 4K write performance is so much better than mine.
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    Performance worse after SSD alignment - confused

    So I just re-ran and got pretty much the same scores I'd gotten before the alignment procedure - I think I had Firefox running during the last few benchmark runs, which was apparently enough to push the scores down quite a bit. I also ran the Intel Optimizer (XP version of 'trim', I think), and...
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    Performance worse after SSD alignment - confused

    What's the difference between starting over with a partition that starts at 65536 and doing what I did? In both cases you end up with a partition that starts on a multiple of 64K. My machine is only SATA150, which may be limiting my read performance, but that's not what I'm talking about here...
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    Performance worse after SSD alignment - confused

    Probably you guys didn't read the link in my post... I did use GParted to align the partition, and the performance got worse. Now my partition starts at exactly 64K (65536) (per diskpar), although maybe I should have aligned to 128K (which is the eraseblock size on the Intel drive). Or...
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    Performance worse after SSD alignment - confused

    I just replaced the HDD in my Thinkpad T60 with an Intel X25-M 160GB SSD. I'm still running XP, and I don't have the need/time to switch to Win7 right now, so I'll just live with running Intel's SSD Optimizer once/week. Overall it was a fantastic upgrade - my machine now boots in around...
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    SSD power consumption question

    IntelUser, Do you know if there is standard support for DIPM on Win 7? XP? Linux? Does it rely on the host chipset at all? I did a google search and it looks like a registry patch is sometimes required to enable it. Maybe this is something Intel's SSD toolbox takes care of. - Jay
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    SSD power consumption question

    Thanks for the link. A couple of things concern me about that test. First, what do those different states mean (i.e. Idle, Burst, Load, etc.), and how does he know what mode the drive is in while making his measurements? Second, he says "measurements represent the maximum observed readings"...
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    SSD power consumption question

    0.6W is not at the wall socket - it's into the drive. I don't quite understand how mechanical drive idle powers are specified - the data sheet for the 7K100 I have now lists 'performance idle' , 'active idle' and 'low power idle' - the range is from 2.0-0.9W, but who knows what mode the drive...
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    SSD power consumption question

    I'm thinking about installing an SSD in a Thinkpad X60s. Given the well-known thermal problems with this machine (the palm-rest gets uncomfortably warm under many circumstances), I'm double-checking power dissipation before I make a decision. My machine currently has a Hitachi 7K100 5400RPM...