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

[idata]

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  

[idata]

Windows 7 aligns it fine making a disk image.

[idata]

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]

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]

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]

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.