intel x-25m G1 -- help, any recourse to G1 folks since f/w is only for G2?

[endervalentine]

I have 80G Intel X-25M G1 and it looks like the current f/w from Intel is only for G2 drives. Is there anything I can do to recoup back the performance?

I ran some test through and it's really really really slllooowww!

There's no custom f/w or program that I can use to help "clean up" the drive?

 

[SolMiester]

Bad luck mate....I'm still flabbergasted that Intel would leave G1 buyers in the lurch like that!!
But I guess they are just too big to care!?

 

[Idontcare]

Intel wants you to have a reason to upgrade.

 

[jimhsu]

How much free space do you have?

 

[taltamir]

it is supposed to drop about 30% and stay there. if it is really REALLY slow it could be due to a known bug in early firmware for the G1 that was fixed. Did you upgrade to the latest g1 firmware?

 

[taltamir]

oh, and sometimes a drive can be defective causing it to have atrocious performance.

If it is less than 50% of what it should be consider contacting intel.

 

[garritynet]

According to Anand, the G1 without trim is still faster than anything but the G2. How slow are we talking here?

How did you install windows?

 

[endervalentine]

eeks! I have about 7G of free space ... I'll get up to 30G of free space and re-run the benchmark, that might it then?

windows was installed by mirroring my old drive to the G1.

 

[Seven]

G1 is basically the same as G2 with exception of TRIM support.