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    Erase/wipe SSD before re-installing?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ivybridge, May 25, 2011.

  1. ivybridge

    ivybridge Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am getting a new laptop. I am going to use the SSD (Intel 320) from my previous laptop and clean install Windows 7. Do I need to erase/wipe the SSD before installing? If so, ho do I do that? I just read somewhere that the performance of an SSD drops if the data is not properly erased. Thanks.
     
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    davepermen Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    no need to. when you do the formatting on the clean install, trim should take care of everything.
     
    davepermen, May 25, 2011
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    When I restore an image of a partition should I avoid a quick format as the whole NTFS filestructures are restored? Should I do in this case a Secure Erase before restoring?
     
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    no do a quick format before restoring an image. except if you use the windows backup tool and it's image restoration tool, then it should be fine.

    you need to trigger a full-disk trim in any way. which you can at installation time (quick format the full disk), or afterwards with some trim-trigger tool or something.

    i'd do the clean format, and then restore the image. or something.

    maybe someone else has some idea.
     
    davepermen, May 25, 2011
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    Thank you All. How do I trim-trigger? Will initializing the Intel Toolbox trigger TRIM?
     
    ivybridge, May 26, 2011
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    If I restore the image the whole partition(inclusive boot record and volume name, but without previous empty blocks) is restored.
    I specified with the format quick command a different volume name than the one contained in the image and it was changed to the one from the image.
    Therefore I think the format quick trick does not work for me.
     
    maximinimaus, May 27, 2011
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