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New to Intel X25-M Gen 2 SSD, some questions

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

Hi,

getting my Intel X25-M Gen 2 SSD in 2 days. I have windows 7 currently installed on a normal HD and I was wondering if I can use a partition copy program like Acronis to copy it over to the new SSD without any issues?

Also browsing though here it looks like Windows 7 does not do a lot of the things its supposed to do when an SSD is used as the system drive (disable prefetch, trim etc). Is this really the case?

Anything else I should know or configure? I have a core 2 due with a Intel 975X/Intel ICH7R motherboard Asus P5W DH Deluxe  

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idata
Esteemed Contributor III

Windows 7 aligns it fine making a disk image.

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

Yes Win7 did/does create the correct alignment on an SSD in you use the correct driver but Acronis can mess up the alignment.

Here is how to do it correctly:

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/7027

PS: something I need to to myself today

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

Yes windows 7 aligns it but it aligns it for 1024 offset. If you look at the benchmarks on the web you will see that 64k offset is way better for this drive.

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

I googled but can not find any benchmarks?

But it looks like the Win7 alignment is best:

http://www.hardforums.com/showpost.php?s=4b20df16b7d6a843298cf69528112cfd&p=1034243239&postcount=36

idata
Esteemed Contributor III

That may be true for OCZ drives, but the benchmarks I saw (and ran myself) the intel drives liked 64K better to the tune of 40 mbs better performance than with 1024. Whatever floats your boat.