SSD Question (Windows 7 Optimization)

I have a G Skill Falcon II 128GB SSD, firmware 1916 (latest) installed in my Studio XPS 1645.

I understand that Windows 7 is supposed to detect that HDD is a SSD and then optimize settings to suit SSD Support. However, this does not appear to be the case. Things are still turned on and all the other tweaks that are recommended such disk defragmentation, Superfetch, ReadyBoost, as well as boot and application launch prefetching are not disabled.

Does anyone know why this is happening or how to solve this kind of issue?

 

To really check if defrag is still turned on, go into disk defrag and click on configure schedule=> select disks, is your c drive checked?

If it isn't defrag is disabled.

 

It is enabled, but the disk is not selectable for Defrag, When Checking the registry the values for Superfetch and Prefetching are 3 instead of 0

 

If the disk is not selected then you shouldn't worry about it, it won't defrag, mine has never run it and it even says in the menu , 'never ran'.

As far as the other settings, I don't know much about that stuff. I just let Windows 7 do it's thing.

 

I downloaded a program called SSD Tweaker 1.3, this seems to have disabled the other things for me. So, i guess that works. its still odd that windows 7 doesn't automatically figure these things out like its supposed to.

 

The main reason I let Windows 7 do it's thing is because I read different things from different websites about disabling and enabling things in the os for the ssd.
Whether it is good or bad, I couldn't make a decision, so I just left it alone.

I'm running an Intel g2 and six months down the road, everything still seems to be working fine.

 

I know of other instances where it didnt automatically disable certain features as well...

 

For sake of getting the best performance, I hope you have the latest Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver installed.

http://go.notebookreview.com/?id=52...um.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=471419

 

There is no performance improvement whatsoever or reason to move to the driver unless you are in a RAID volume.

 

you can just right click on computer in your start menu then choose manage then goto services and you can turn off defrag and superfetch and prefetch there

 

I ended up using the SSD Tweaker tool from the OCZ Forums which seems to work fairly well. It disables a plethora of functions that seem to affect SSD optimizations. All seems to be running smoothly right now.

 

Not true. Rapid Storage Technology driver replaces the Matrix Storage driver and it is required when AHCI/SATA mode are enabled. Windows includes only basic limited support for AHCI by itself, and only by installing the manufactures driver can you enable full hardware acceleration/support for all the chipsets' features. There's also no harm by having it installed.

 

Anyone else want to weigh in on this?

 

Read thru this thread and u will see that most people think that the win7 AHCI drivers work slightly better than the intels, in terms of transfer rates anyhow

 

Agreed...there is no need whatsoever to move over to the Intel unless you are running RAID. The MS AHCI driver included with Win 7 includes FULL support and well, it even allowed TRIM before Intel itself had a release that did so...who is limited?

Further the RST driver is NOT required when AHCI is enabled if the MS AHCI driver that comes default with Win7 is working as it should by default.