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Experiences from the new version (1.2) of Toolbox

idata — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:32:45 GMT

I installed it without any problems.

Running the optimizer took 10 minutes on my 160GB drive.

It didn't change the performance at all though (measured with CrystalDiskMark), on the other hand I didn't expect it to either since I'm using Windows 7 with TRIM enabled. You could say that it prooved that TRIM really works.

Re: Experiences from the new version (1.2) of Toolbox

idata — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:00:06 GMT

Yep! No need to run the toolbox if you OS is TRIM aware and you are using the right drivers.

Re: Experiences from the new version (1.2) of Toolbox

idata — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 14:54:03 GMT

Really glad to see it - I am still stuck with Windows XP and it really helped.

IMHO for SSD where space is at premium WindowsXP is not a bad choice to be honest...

Re: Experiences from the new version (1.2) of Toolbox

idata — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:44:56 GMT

Consider win7. Its footprint is very small. Mine is 20GB with pagefile and 5GB worth of programs installed + XP mode (though, I never used it until now). Not to mention its superiority over XP in virtually every way.

Re: Experiences from the new version (1.2) of Toolbox

idata — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:03:43 GMT

Yeah Win7 is my next step indeed.

The way I partitioned my 160GB G2 is 40GB for OS X and the rest for Windows as NTFS is accessible by both systems and might benefit from TRIM straight away...

I will upgrade to Win 7 and Snow Leopard over Christmas hopefully.