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07-01-2011 01:16 AM
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07-01-2011 02:07 AM
Well, in terms of benchmark performance, you could do a lot better. Three things which can be improved upon are the firmware, the partition alignment and the storage driver mode.
Firstly, the firmware in use is quite old (2CV102G9) that I think it was the first firmware of the G2 drives, and it doesn't support TRIM.
Roughly in chronological order:
02G9 (first version of G2 shipping firmware?)
02HA (retracted FW)
02HB (shipping FW I've seen on a few SSDs but wasn't available via update AFAIK)
02HD
02M3 (current firmware)
You'll find it will be recommended to upgrade to the latest firmware on that puppy.
Secondly, the partition alignment is out. This doesn't seem to affect the performance of Intel SSDs as much as other drives, but it's something that you may as well take advantage of.
Thirdly, it looks like you're running in IDE compatibility mode (AHCI mode is typically the preferred mode for SSDs). Also, given it's using the pciide driver, I'm guessing you have a non-Intel chipset motherboard/confguration? It might pay to list your motherboard and confirm OS.
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07-01-2011 02:54 AM
ok thank you for the reply, I cant figure out which motherboard i have (all programs report motherboard unknown) but i know it is made by ASUS
my operating system is windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
how would i go about updating the firmware to the latest version, and how can i change to AHCI mode?
Thank you.
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07-01-2011 03:44 AM
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07-01-2011 05:01 AM
i just finished updating firmware to latest version and i ran the test again, another improvement
The only thing left to do is the bad sector, How could i go about fixing that?
Thank you sooo much
EDIT:
Since updating the firmware there is a "safely eject hardware" icon in the toolbar which lists the SSD with an option to eject it. How can i remove this? im not planning to remove the SSD ever. i dont need this eject option
