I'd hate to return another SSD to Amazon, since I've already returned two to them this month! The key here is *active* garbage collection as part of the wear-leveling. I'm trying to get more information on the M500. * Boot your Windows disc and repair the startup (since the partition now starts at byte 2048 instead of 63)Įdit: I've read that the Crucial M500 has decent garbage collection, as well (for running without TRIM). * Clone the Windows HDD partition to the 4K-aligned SSD partition with something like Clonezilla * Create an NTFS partition on the SSD with an Ubuntu 11+ disc (so that it is 4K-aligned). If you already have a working Windows 7/8 install that you want to keep, and it was upgraded from XP (and so your partition is aligned at the 63 byte), do this: If you already have a working Windows 7/8 install to HDD that you want to keep, do this: * Disable TRIM (fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 1) * Install Windows 7 or 8 to the HDD in the T43. Recommended install method for SSD (and required if you have a SandForce drive): You cannot do a clean install of Windows 7 or 8 on the SandForce drive, as the Windows install will fail (XP, Vista, and Ubuntu versions lower than 14.04 should also install without issue). Since you cannot use OS TRIM, I would first recommend a SandForce drive (its built-in active garbage collection is comparable to OS TRIM). Running "fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 1" as admin gave an *immediate* performance improvement. SDD activity was at 100% (viewable from Task Manager). On both SSDs, when an OS was cloned to it, performance sucked. With any SSD on the T43 using the PATA to SATA adapter, you must disable TRIM. It did not freeze up like with the SandForce drive, but performance was bad after install. OK, I just got the Crucial M500 drive (Marvell chipset).
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