Do I need a clean wipe to install a temp SSD?

Hey guys,

I'm doing a review of an SSD and I haven't installed it yet because I know a new ssd = clean wp7 wipe.

I only have the SSD for 2/3 days to be honest, so I'm not sure if I really need a clean wipe (and it's going in the 2nd HDD slot). So what's the best way around this?

Let me know!

 

You don't really need to wipe the drive, though if your doing a review, doing a secure erase would help net the best results from the drive as if it came fresh from the factory.

Here are the steps I normally use when I'm secure erasing my SSDs.
SSD Secure Erase with proper ATA command

 

Grab a copy of parted magic use and use that for a secure erase

 

Sweet, done and done (and yes it was a Factory sealed SSD DR).

As for speeds, after a few tweaks here and there at the start (originally it wasn't showing up as a drive because I didn't realise it was unassigned. Formated and assigned it and it worked well).

As for benchmark scores, I'm disappointed the R2 doesn't have Sata III (6gb/s) because that would have nearly doubled this score.

Either way, here's the test after a few internal tweaks as well:


How does it rank?

 

Nice, I think I have some tweak linked in mt RAID 0 SSD link in my sig. But damn, those speeds are nice for an SSD in the R2. What kinda SSD is it?

As a test, run wPrime 1024 with one thread going. While wPrime is running, test your SSD speed. That may show better results. I know when I was benching my RAID 0 setup it improved the scores, though it really didn't mean much. a 10-15% load on the CPU helps for some reason.

 

Haha, it's a OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD. They gave me a great one to review, so I'm happy. Whether they let me keep it or not.. is another matter

I'll do those test runs tomorrow.

Lol I got edgy and pushed them more. The first one is WITH wPrime, the second one is without (a little more tweaks on both).





The bad news? My cpu is at 100% full power, and won't come down :S

 

Hmm, maybe it just works better on RAID setups since it's software raid and give it an added CPU boost. What about restarting the system? That should take care of the CPU issue

 

Indeed, I'm going to do some of those other optimization tricks which you've done and hopefully I'll see some performance boosts. Tomorrow I'm sure.

Also I was looking at the SSD optimization guide.. and it seems I don't have this folder? “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\msahci” Weird...

DR are those scores of yours on a M17x r2 for your Intel SSD?

 

My 120 GB + 160 GB 320 series drives in my R2.

 

Yea, It's two Intel X25-M 160GB SSDs in RAID 0. Tweaked of course with the tweaks I linked in the post.

 

I can't fully tweak it because 1. It's in the 2nd HDD space and 2. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to keep it.

If on the off chance I am, I'm happy to wipe my computer, set up Windows 7 on the SSD (then upgrade to Windows 8) and set them up in RAID. I think it's AHCI now right? Is it possible to have one in Raid and one in AHCI?

 

Your 4k scores are exceptionally low (mine were that low when I first tested it). You should follow the links in DR's signature to see how to tweak it. Normal tweaking should get it to my scores, but doing everything should get it to DR's scores.