[Thorsteenster]

Great thread! In the RC I had turned off scheduled defrag, but didn't think about these others, thanks!

[Montala]

I have just been advised by OCX to run their Vertex SSD with AHCI ENABLED in the BIOS!

Is this option available in the Mini 10v please, and if so where have they 'hidden' it?

Thanks

[bjd223]

Originally Posted by Montala

I have just been advised by OCX to run their Vertex SSD with AHCI ENABLED in the BIOS!

Is this option available in the Mini 10v please, and if so where have they 'hidden' it?

Thanks

As far as I can tell there is no way to change anything that has to do with the interface. It is probably running in 'IDE Mode' but you never know.

Anyone know of a way to check that in the OS?

[Thorsteenster]

May or may not be a coincidence, but my 9 now takes several minutes to shutdown, I'm going to try reversing these, other than the scheduled defrag and see if it improves. I pretty much did these as soon as I finished installing W7 so I can't say if it would have before or not.

[minidyker]

I just went thru the entire thread and had started disabling indexing, was going to do the firefox stuff, turn off swap files, etc. It did make a difference for me when I had XP. Now I've only had Vista on the machine a day but even without the treaks in this thread it was so much better and faster. I've decided the only tweak I'll make is turning off defrag. The rest... well... like I said it is already quite snappy. I will probably also make a smaller swap file since my 16 (14) gig SSD only as 4G free.

[bjd223]

Originally Posted by Thorsteenster

May or may not be a coincidence, but my 9 now takes several minutes to shutdown, I'm going to try reversing these, other than the scheduled defrag and see if it improves. I pretty much did these as soon as I finished installing W7 so I can't say if it would have before or not.

Do not defrag your SSD. The only thing this is doing is wearing it out. It will not increase performance.

[DoodleWhacker]

I think this thread needs deleting, or the original post corrected/cleaned. It ranks extremely high in google searches, and suckers like myself figure it's good advice, so we follow it step-by-step. After reading 5 pages of replies, now we're told it's mostly/all crap advice??

Originally Posted by bjd223

Do not defrag your SSD. The only thing this is doing is wearing it out. It will not increase performance.

He was saying he'll reverse all changes apart from that one.

[MoInSTL]

[QUOTE=DoodleWhacker;123221]I think this thread needs deleting, or the original post corrected/cleaned. It ranks extremely high in google searches, and suckers like myself figure it's good advice, so we follow it step-by-step. After reading 5 pages of replies, now we're told it's mostly/all crap advice??


First post and it's a critical one. Go to the Feedback forum with your suggestion instead of complaining in the thread.

This thread may need cleaning up but if in fact you read the entire thread there is some good info like turning off hibernate to save a gig of space. Some of us are still using small SSD drives.

Oh and welcome to the forum.

[holmes4]

I thought the initial post seemed ok. Maybe not every suggestion has a real benefit.

[warrendrivesacrx]

i just installed win7pro on my mini9 and found this thread from the drivers thread.

i found the information helpful but,The original post was more of a how to do the tweaks and not why you should or should not do them.so while looking for supporting information i found this:

i found this blog post that addresses almost all of the original post topics written from a Microsoft windows 7 engineer perspective. It directly address win7 from a SSD standpoint.

Engineering Windows 7 : Support and Q&A for Solid-State Drives


my takeaway from these posts is win7 tried to address new SSD's but not all SSd's report to win7 correctly which in turn is making win7 not adjust the settings intended to be there.

I know the link is long but it is worth a read before making any changes to your system.

i have a 32 gb super talent ssd which while win7 loaded ok not all of the optimization win7 is suppose to do happened so i wound up doing most of the "tweeks" posted by the OP.