Solved Windows 8 and SSD Hard Drives

ghforlife

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Just a thought!, Has anyone had any trouble with "Trim" or any thing else with "Win8" and "SSD's"??

I am useing Windows 7 with "two" ssd hard drives and i would love to try out Windows 8, but not at the cost of my ssd,
as you all know if Trim is not working right, this cause theis Hard Drives to miss up real bad and fale
 

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How are you using those SSd discs? RAID? files and apps? or dual boot?

since you have two discs, and if you havent i would recommend you to use RAID 0 to get more boost and efficency on them. But i think that trimming works fine on w8
 

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How are you using those SSd discs? RAID? files and apps? or dual boot?

since you have two discs, and if you havent i would recommend you to use RAID 0 to get more boost and efficency on them. But i think that trimming works fine on w8

is there a way to activate trim on raid0 ?
i know that trim isnt working on raid0.... am i wrong ?
 

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Why you don't try it on VM ?
 

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Works just fine. I also run two SSDs and as of yet have had no problems. One is running 7 and the other 8 (dual boot).
 

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How are you using those SSd discs? RAID? files and apps? or dual boot?

since you have two discs, and if you havent i would recommend you to use RAID 0 to get more boost and efficency on them. But i think that trimming works fine on w8

Yes! RAID 0, in 7, just didn't know about win8. I have not tryed it yet, i thank i'll stay put for now, until all nots are out you know!
 

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    ATI 4550
They are running "Intel 520 using SandForce controller in RAID 0 and it had a top performance, With a 6Gb/s interface and being 240GB, it had speeds of 550 MB/s read and 520Mb/s write with a maximum 80,000 low 4k random write IOPS for a single drive.
Maybe some day i'll make enough money to own one!
 

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    ATI 4550
Guys, do yourselves a favor and obstain from Raid0 for SSDs. It buys you absolutely nothing for the OS performance because the OS does few R/W operations and those only for 4K blocks. All those fantastic data transfer numbers are just meaningless for the OS.

That is different when you use the SSD Raid0 to move a lot of large block data around. There is may make some sense.
 

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Guys, do yourselves a favor and obstain from Raid0 for SSDs. It buys you absolutely nothing for the OS performance because the OS does few R/W operations and those only for 4K blocks. All those fantastic data transfer numbers are just meaningless for the OS.

Yep. Bench numbers are impressive, but real world usage nets you no discernible improvement.
 

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Didn't you watch videos on youtube about "windows 8 ssd" you'll see some amazing stuff over on videos
 

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Guys, do yourselves a favor and obstain from Raid0 for SSDs. It buys you absolutely nothing for the OS performance because the OS does few R/W operations and those only for 4K blocks. All those fantastic data transfer numbers are just meaningless for the OS.

That is different when you use the SSD Raid0 to move a lot of large block data around. There is may make some sense.

So I shoulda seen this post before my purchase, you make sense and I unfortunately just got all excited at the speeds, but it is still stinking fast. I bought an Msi GT70 610u with dual ssd's in raid 0. My question would be that my old system was win7 with an intel 520ssd as my operating system drive. when I wanted to refresh my install, as things just deteriorate after 3-4 months. I would remove drive and do a secure erase before re installing system, is that possible with this system ? and is it beneficial ? I was advised that a secure erase kept residual programming from previous install from corrupting new installation. True or hogwash ?

As a side note from a new win8 user, I like.Can anybody recommend a guide ? MS used to make a big ass resource book but I don't believe they do anymore. Not crazy about everything wanting to go to the cloud. I believe government needs to be involved in setting some parameters of what is private and public.
 

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thank you for your information, question, with this system running 2 ssd's in raid 0, will these steps still apply ?
 

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    Nvidia 680m
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    2x128Gb raided ssd's primary
    750 Gb spindle drive secondary
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    ie10
    Antivirus
    windows defender
thank you for your information, question, with this system running 2 ssd's in raid 0, will these steps still apply ?
You can image a Raid partition, but secure erase you'll have to do individually because it is done per volume (disk).

Why do you complicate your life with a Raid. For the OS on the SSDs that buys you nothing. It is only somewhat useful when you move a lot of large block data.
 

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I hear ya dude, but still pretty stinkin fast. lol thanks for the info, muchly appreciate
 

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    Nvidia 680m
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    2x128Gb raided ssd's primary
    750 Gb spindle drive secondary
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    windows defender
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