SSD optimizer finishes in 2 seconds

[idata]

Hi.

I'm using a 160 Gb G2 ssd with 2HD firmware on Windows 7 64 bit, AHCI. I had some problems with SATA drivers (lenovo update utility installed matrix storage 7.x which doesn't support TRIM) so I installed version 9.6 drivers. But I wanted to run the SSD optimizer (v1.3) to clean up after the old driver, but as soon as it starts it exits after 2 seconds. The result is passed and green, but i'm sure it didn't do anything. It has more than 100 Gb free space and according to SMART, 180 GB was written to it. I tried to run it with the old driver but it's the same.

Thanks

A.

[JAMES_J_Intel]

Hi,

What you are experiencing is the correct expected behavior of the Toolbox v1.3.

Regards,

Jim

[idata]

Hi,

Could you explain this a little more? What is happening? It has nothing to do? How does it know what was left behind by the previous drivers?

Thanks

A.

[idata]

I think that this behavior is indicative of the fact that Windows 7 is natively implementing TRIM commands and so the toolbox is not actually having to do anything which is why it appears to do nothing. You don't really need to run this toolbox with Windows 7 and AHCI.

[idata]

There are AHCI drivers (even older intel matrix storage drivers) which doesn't let trim commands through, no matter win7 issues it or not, so it's not a good idea to deny running cleanup on win7.

Maybe i should do the cleanup manually, by creating a 100+ GB file and deleteing it, now I have the proper AHCI drivers, but this is anything but user friendly. SSD optimizer should tell me exactly why it's not doing the job, just like it displays error message if you try to run it on a RAID volume.

One more thing I'm really missing is a tool which reads the whole SSD and reports the number of clean/trimmed blocks in GB. I could compare it with free space reported by OS so I could check anytime whether trim is working or not.