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SSD set up on new build
Can you guys articulate again what I need to set? I have Win7Pro 64bit installed and have the computer runnings. SSD is formatted 78GB partition with OS and the remaining on second partition of 30GB. I also have a spinning hard drive as "E" drive. What are the settings for TRIM and AHCI and is there anything else to set? Garycase had said something about checking the BIOS to ensure it is set to run AHCI. Is there like a little check list of things you can post here that I can run through to make sure my SSD runs well?
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I found this:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-system/windows-7-64-bit-does-not-boot-with-ahci-enabled/1ed33ae9-b2ff-4d1f-b28c-406153e04faa
I changed the msachi setting to 0 and rebooted and in BIOS changed to ACHI. Am I all set? It is up and running. How can I tell it is in AHCI? Actually, now that I think about it, when it booted, I noticed something about AHCI BIOS loaded scrolling across the screen prior to Win7 loading, so I guess it is in that mode.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-system/windows-7-64-bit-does-not-boot-with-ahci-enabled/1ed33ae9-b2ff-4d1f-b28c-406153e04faa
I changed the msachi setting to 0 and rebooted and in BIOS changed to ACHI. Am I all set? It is up and running. How can I tell it is in AHCI? Actually, now that I think about it, when it booted, I noticed something about AHCI BIOS loaded scrolling across the screen prior to Win7 loading, so I guess it is in that mode.
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For now, I am leaving my server as is. I found with this new i7 all my pages are stupid fast. I can hardly click the pages fast than they load. This thing is amazingly fast. What I am finding with my server now, I guess. the XP machines for whatever reason where taking a long time to load the pages that have extensive data. Why this new desktop is loading the pages faster is a mystery to me, but then I don't really know anything. I had thought the server RAID was the culprit to the slow load of our SQL database querying pages, but now I think it is the desktops. I would like to understand this better. It may be that I have to learn more.
If you were running something other than an i7 before, that might account for the speedup - the i7-2600K is so much faster than previous generations; it's one of the fastest cpus around, including Xeons. You also are running 64-bit, which gives you access to a lot of RAM, which databases can use.
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Went into BIOS and found this:
Integrated Peripherals>PCH SATA Control-IDE. I changed that to AHCI, but are you saying I have to change it in the registry as well? Are you saying I should leave the BIOS setting as IDE and first go into registry and change and then go back to BIOS and change?
Also, while in BIOS, I found another setting completely unrelated to this post, but curious about it. It was
ADVANCE CPU CORE FEATURE
CMOS Real Time Ratio Changes in OS-Disabled. Wonder what happens if I Enable that?