Intel X-25 G1

[Carmen813]

So a friend of mine offered to give me his old X-25 G1. I know this drive doesn't support TRIM, so I was wondering what I should do to get ready to use it. I want to make it my boot drive.

 

[Zap]

Intel SSD Toolbox

I think you can start with a secure erase, which makes it "like new." Then, periodically run the Optimizer if you feel that the drive is slowing down. I think that's what prompts it to run garbage collection (basically what Trim tells it to do). No need to go wild with it, because it should run it on its own, but just run it manually if there are slowdowns.

 

[F1shF4t]

Intel G1's don't support optimiser only G2 ssds do. Secure erase would be a good start, then if you have the latest firmware (8820 for G1s) it should work pretty well.

My G1 has never been secure erased since I got it about 14 months ago. It goes through times when it feels relatively slow, filling it up with large files completely then deleting them seems to help it recover. I use mine in work laptop and its still a damn good os drive.

 

[Zap]

Intel G1's don't support optimiser only G2 ssds do.

Good to know.

filling it up with large files completely then deleting them seems to help it recover.

According to Anand in one of his articles, that triggers garbage collection.

 

[Emulex]

I've got an O.G. X18-M and it still rocks out quite fast. just gotta trim the bush now and then.

 

[Zap]

just gotta trim the bush now and then.

Uh, we're talking about computer parts, right? :sneaky:

 

[n7]

If you are picky about performance, secure erase.

Mine did degrade to pretty poor write speeds after a while, but i've been using it in RAID-0 with some G2 for quite a long time now, & performance has been okay.

 

[Carmen813]

How does the secure erase process work?

 

[n7]

How does the secure erase process work?

Great info here: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=669&type=expert&pid=6

For me, it was quite the PITA.

I had to use the older version (3.3), & couldn't do it in my P55 or P45 boards even in IDE mode; had to use my old P965 P5B-D in IDE mode.

And had to do the fun leave-the-SSD-unplugged until the BIOS security thingy had "checked", & then plug it in after the program was loaded.
Or something like that; i forget exactly as it was quite a while ago.
TBH i'm too lazy to ever want to fight thru that again, but if you really want to do it, download the 3.3 version they host @ the above link; they've got all the instructions in there.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Can't you just use the program ccleaner and wipe disk free space?