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TRIM an SSD after restoring from an image?
I just restored a full disk Windows 7 image to an SSD with dd, and am now running off of it.
I'm concerned that the SSD thinks that all of the unused sectors from the image are actually used sectors, ...
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Is SSD TRIM deleting your System Restore points in windows?
I've had system restore enabled on Windows 7 with a SSD with TRIM enabled.
It would often have a message saying 'Creating restore point' but I never actually saw any restore points in the restore ...
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TRIM on hdd windows 7
I recently bought a ssd and I wanted to check for TRIM support. Upon running the command fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify in cmd it resulted in 0 (trim is enabled). However, I ran this ...
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TRIM High level or low level? and Running a VM on a ssd
Is TRIM high level (such as deleting files within the operating system) or low level (it monitors all disk activity). For instance if I run a VM within my windows 7 host, will the data deleted and ...
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TRIM for Raid0 SSD Arrays, do I need to use Intel SSD Toolbox? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is TRIM supported on RAID 0 configurations for SSD drives in Windows 7?
I recently upgraded my computer due to a failed motherboard and decided to have some fun with SSDs.
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Does Windows 7 support TRIM for Spanned Dynamic Disks?
Windows 7 supports TRIM for an individual SSD, but does it work with two SSDs merged together as a Spanned Dynamic Disk?
"Dynamic Disk" is Microsoft's proprietary version of LVM.The equivalent ...
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Win7: How do I force TRIM on SSD, when system partition is encrypted with TrueCrypt?
I beg folks answering this question to stick to the point, and refrain from answers such as "why do you run encryption anyway", or "use Bitlocker instead". This question is specifically about ...
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Should I be worried about my SSD deteriorating from file transfers?
I'm a GIS analyst so I deal with huge imagery datasets daily (80GB+). Processing from our server is extremely slow so I copy files to my local drive before processing. I have both an SSD and an HDD ...
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How is TRIM Support Handled on an SSD Accessed by Two Different Operating Systems?
I have a Lenovo T410 ThinkPad running Windows 7 Professional as the host OS, and Windows XP Professional running as a guest OS under Windows 7 Virtual PC.
I am thinking of installing a 128GB SSD to ...
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Feasibility of putting two Intel 520s in RAID0 on a 3 year old board
I have a 3+ year old i7 rig (using an old ASUS P6T Deluxe) which currently has two SSD's in RAID 0 using the on-board Intel Matrix Storage RAID Controller (The predecessor to Intel RST?) - The SSD's ...
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Windows 7 and Windows XP on an SSD+HDD setup?
I'm about to build a new gaming PC for the first time in seven years, and I'm a bit rusty, so I thought I'd ask the community here some advice on the OS side of things before committing some cardinal ...
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TRIM Consequences
I was wondering if one of you can help me understand what are the SSD TRIM command actually does in Windows .
To my best of knowledge, once a user deletes a file, Windows obtains the list of clusters ...
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Intel SSD Toolbox options are disabled for SSD when Intel firmware update works fine
I configured my BIOS to use JBOD instead of RAID because RAID does not support TRIM for SSDs.
My laptop BIOS does not have any option for SMART or AHCI, it's just JBOD or RAID0 or RAID1.
Bootable ...
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How to set up OSes (Mac/Win/Ubuntu) on a SSD to promote its longevity (TRIM, etc.)
I recently bought an SSD (a 64GB Crucial M4 - which I believe has garbage collection, based on these specs) for my new computer. I've installed OS X 10.7.2 on it, and would like to reinstall this and ...
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Idling on windows logon screen to allow SSD to recover free space?
On this page, the very last paragraph states
"For use within windows 7 there is absolutely no maintenance needed apart from
allowing the machine to idle at the login screen for a few hours each week,...
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