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<blockquote data-quote="Rickyk" data-source="post: 1975604" data-attributes="member: 9519"><p>Hi vyral</p><p></p><p>Did you get around to installing your drive? Having mixed results here. Did a clean Win7-64 install. </p><p></p><p>OS boot time has gone down from 55 seconds for my ancient 80GB to around 16 seconds with the SSD. Shutdown time is incredibly fast as well, just 3-5 seconds.</p><p></p><p>However some weird stuff. </p><p></p><p>Formatting the SSD (I did a FULL format not a quick format) took 16 minutes! That seems kind of excessive for a 256Gb SSD but as this is my first SSD I don't know what the norm is for this capacity. </p><p></p><p>I did all the recommended stuff like disable prefetch, Search indexing etc. checked to ensure Trim is enabled etc. based on an article online before I cloned the drive. </p><p></p><p>Even cloning the OS partition right after a clean install took around 13 minutes for a 6 GB partition. </p><p></p><p>I cloned C:\ Drive to E:\ Drive both on the SSD. This I know for sure is VERY HIGH as my ancient 80GB IDE would take around 15 minutes to clone a fresh Win7 install. </p><p></p><p>Funny thing is, when I did it a SECOND time just to check it - it completed it in under 5 minutes! Really weird. No settings were changed in between the two Clones. Software used was Paragon Backup 2014 which is NEW for me in the sense that I am used to Ver 2013. Maybe its a quirk with the 2014 version of the app.</p><p></p><p>Ran some benchmarks. Results seem okay, basically roughly HALF its expected performance which is fine considering I'm on a 7+ year old Mobo with SATA 2 only.</p><p></p><p>All in all, having an SSD is nice but its not as radical an enhancement as I was expecting considering my earlier drive was truly ancient.</p><p></p><p>Let me know what your experience is like. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rickyk, post: 1975604, member: 9519"] Hi vyral Did you get around to installing your drive? Having mixed results here. Did a clean Win7-64 install. OS boot time has gone down from 55 seconds for my ancient 80GB to around 16 seconds with the SSD. Shutdown time is incredibly fast as well, just 3-5 seconds. However some weird stuff. Formatting the SSD (I did a FULL format not a quick format) took 16 minutes! That seems kind of excessive for a 256Gb SSD but as this is my first SSD I don't know what the norm is for this capacity. I did all the recommended stuff like disable prefetch, Search indexing etc. checked to ensure Trim is enabled etc. based on an article online before I cloned the drive. Even cloning the OS partition right after a clean install took around 13 minutes for a 6 GB partition. I cloned C:\ Drive to E:\ Drive both on the SSD. This I know for sure is VERY HIGH as my ancient 80GB IDE would take around 15 minutes to clone a fresh Win7 install. Funny thing is, when I did it a SECOND time just to check it - it completed it in under 5 minutes! Really weird. No settings were changed in between the two Clones. Software used was Paragon Backup 2014 which is NEW for me in the sense that I am used to Ver 2013. Maybe its a quirk with the 2014 version of the app. Ran some benchmarks. Results seem okay, basically roughly HALF its expected performance which is fine considering I'm on a 7+ year old Mobo with SATA 2 only. All in all, having an SSD is nice but its not as radical an enhancement as I was expecting considering my earlier drive was truly ancient. Let me know what your experience is like. :) [/QUOTE]
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