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[XiandreX]

My 512gb MX100 finally arrived. I had read how well this free software works and has a 4k alignment tickbox to make things copy/clone correctly.
I cloned from a 500Gb WD blue 7200rpm to this SSD, with split partitions on Source drive and keeping the same layout.

I started the copy this morning before work. I just went back home for lunch, switched boot drive to the SSD and straight into Windows. 😀

I still need to go and verify 4k alignment and trim are working properly but so far it seems to have worked well. Just thought I would share my experience with it. This is on Windows 8.1 64bit.
The free version has limitations but seems to be a nice tool for HDD to SSD cloning.

Also one final thing. Is there anything else I need to turn off like Defrag etc?

Thanks in advance

 

[mikeymikec]

I did a fresh install of Win7 when I changed over to a boot SSD. It automatically ignores the SSD with regard to defragging. It also set the SuperFetch service to manual.

 

[XiandreX]

I did a fresh install of Win7 when I changed over to a boot SSD. It automatically ignores the SSD with regard to defragging. It also set the SuperFetch service to manual.

If this had been a fresh install I would understand, but given this is a clone of an existing install from a Mechanical disk I want to make sure features that need to be turned off are in fact off.

 

[mikeymikec]

If this had been a fresh install I would understand, but given this is a clone of an existing install from a Mechanical disk I want to make sure features that need to be turned off are in fact off.

I meant that these are two things that you might want to check. Auto defrag being enabled isn't a problem, just as long as it's not trying to defrag the SSD. I would guess that it won't, but for example I'm pretty sure I've caught Win7 trying to defrag a USB flash drive while it was idle.

 

[XiandreX]

4K alignment and Trim are functional. How about prefetching/indexing or page file?

 

[mikeymikec]

Superfetch is prefetch for newer versions of Windows.

I personally don't see any point in doing anything with indexing or the page file. Looking at the results from techreport.com's SSD thrashing so far, your use would have to be pretty heavy to justify you worrying about it.

My 256GB boot SSD is just over 5 months old, and CrystalDiskInfo reports that the SSD has done 882GB total host writes. About a quarter of that was after I had finished initially setting it up (copying all the stuff over onto it, installing Windows, etc). So knock off a conservative estimate of 200GB (I'm sure it was more than that), which leaves approximately 700GB left, divide that by 5 months and that's 140GB per month average.

According to techreport, the Intel 335 SSD indicated that it was worn out after 700TB of writes. 700 * 1024 = 716800GB. Divide that by 140 = 5120 (months based on my use), which is 426 years.

Even if we go by the Samsung 840 that indicated it was fully worn out after 300TB, that's still something like 185 years.

Even if let's say you do a terabyte of writes every four months and your SSD craps out as 'quickly' as the Samsung 840, that's still 100 years of life.

PS - Maths isn't my strong point so anyone please feel free to double-check!

 

[XiandreX]

Thanks for the detailed response. I will leave it as is. Drive is super quick and having so much space in an SSD is awesome. I look forward to when 1tb SSD drives are the same price as this 512gb MX100.