Windows 7 doesn't defrag ssd drives by default.Quote:
Originally Posted by tallone2
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Windows 7 doesn't defrag ssd drives by default.Quote:
Originally Posted by tallone2
Win7 disables all the prefetch/superfetch/defrag automatically when it detects a SSD.
Depends if he has this raided or similar encapsulated, many raid setups and drivers obfuscate TRIM and other features. Making a SSD setup horrible and will damage SSD's.Quote:
Originally Posted by d0z3rr
If Windows 7 automatically does all those things when it detects an SSD, then why did I have to switch them all over manually, and why are so many people making guides like this where it says to do it manually?
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...l=1#post442158
Windows disables defrag for ssd drives and it is also supposed to disable superfetch and prefetch for ssd drives fast enough. However this (disabling superfetch/prefetch) doesnt work properly in current versions of Windows 7. Hopefully it will be fixed in future servicepacks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mukade
As for why are so many people making guides about things they don't really know anything about. I don't know? Ignorance is a bliss I guess.
from a hardware/product support view - i think its great that ocz has the information available and suggestions on what there equipment needs to run - and things to check (manual or auto settings), whether the OS does it manually or not.
i'm not 100% sure on how i got to seeing the defrag on for my SSD. I've since moved to a boot ssd drive and a larger game ssd drive and both of those by default have had the defrag off (clean install of win 7 pro X64). very few things are simple plug N play when performance is a factor.
SSD still are a little flaky to me.
I have one machine using a raid 0 of 4x drives with a pci-e raid card, it's smoking fast all the time.
I have another machine with just a single SSD drive and every once in a while it just locks up for 2-3 seconds, this seems to be a common complaint for SSD users, it's almost better to have it as a data drive ( where you put your games ) instead of a O/S drive.
I believe somehow external raid cards work better with them than most motherboards... probably because someone who's spent that much to have the raid card has more than one drive.
Sometimes, logging into game (ie, past character select, but not in game yet) will take as little as 2 seconds, even for Dalaran.
At other times, it can take 2-3 minutes for the log in process.
The average seems to be 30-45 seconds.
Once I'm in game, any loading is very quick.
The progress bar, for loading when taking a boat is fast enough that if I blink, I could easily miss it.