Are the Intel G2 SSDs telling Windows 7 they are a SSD upon install?

[MJohn29]

New/empty 160GB G2 with latest firmware from 10/26/2009.

P55 chipset on a Intel DP55KG motherboard with latest BIOS.

Storage controller set to AHCI in BIOS.

Installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64

Upon install, checked for automatic SSD optimizations that are supposed to be done if and only if the SSD properly notifies Windows 7 that it is a SSD.

Noticed that defrag was turned ON (the Intel SSD is my only drive in the computer)

Prefetch and Superfetch both turned ON per the registry

Drive Indexing turned ON (not sure if this was supposed to be turned OFF or not).

Whats up with this? Are these drives not communicating with Windows 7 properly upon install?

[idata]

me too

[idata]

I read somewhere that Windows 7 is supposed to detect an SSD by zero rotation of the disk, which is the case of SSD. I have the same issues as you with those services and defrag being on. I am not sure if this is an Intel issue or if it is Windows 7.

Will someone from Intel come forward and give us a clue as to what is going on? We shall see...

[idata]

I thought it recognized SSD's based on random writes. Might have been random reads though...

[idata]

"Windows 7 will set Defrag off as a default, when detecting non-rotating media, improving device endurance by reducing writes."

http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Windows-7-Evolution-to-NAND-Flash-Solid-State-Disks-SSDs-98097.sh... http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Windows-7-Evolution-to-NAND-Flash-Solid-State-Disks-SSDs-98097.sh...