Good TRIM setup for a X25-M G2 SSD

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Appreciate any corrections/additions:

Computer BIOS set to AHCI

SSD firmware that supports TRIM:

02HA firmware or newer Have partition alignment: Create first partition with Win 7 http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=107126 http://sqlblog.com/blogs/kevin_kline/archive/2008/10/08/how-to-improve-application-and-database-perf...Do over-provisioning: Leave 20% of disk space as unpartitioned for controller's use http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3667Use Win 7 with the following: Intel's SSD Optimizer s/w Is part of the Intel SSD Toolbox download Win 7 will use it automatically Microsoft's AHCI disk driver: msahci Microsoft's SATA controller driver: Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller

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thanx for info, i tried to install Windows 7 first, but now have to go back to XP, but HDDErase doesn't work for me (just freezes, don't know why)

is there other good way to erase SSD? can I do it on another computer?

and it seems to me the old SSD Toolbox doesn't work with the new fixed firmware, so i have to wait for the new one, hopefully it comes this year...

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HDDErase doesn't work for me (just freezes, don't know why)

What version of HDDErase are you using? Try 3.3 if you haven't already. Also, is your bios set to IDE when you attempt to run HDDErase?

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my bios is set to IDE and i tried some bootable 3.3 version

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I'm out of ideas!

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petysab, It sounds like I had the same problem with HDDErase as yourself. It would hang indefinately at the stage where it was scanning for drives. This was with the controller set to IDE mode. I recently replaced a RAID0 Raptor setup with a single 160GB SSD, added a large storage drive, and now HDDErase works. So in this case it looks like the initial problem may have been with it being unable to detect the RAID volume as two separate drives in IDE mode. So four drives, two in RAID, was a no go. Four drives, all single, works as advertised. Nothing else was changed on the system, just the drives. Don't know if this applies to you or not but thought it was worth mentioning just in case you were also running RAID or some other exotic drive configuration. This was with v3.3 also and the same DOS boot disk.

and it seems to me the old SSD Toolbox doesn't work with the new fixed firmware, so i have to wait for the new one, hopefully it comes this year..

It does actually work, provided you have 02HA or 02HD firmware. The Toolbox can cause problems with the Windows System Restore feature but TRIM is implemented. Can you provide some specifics of your problem with the Toolbox?