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    If Windows 7 designed to work well with SSD's?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by King of Interns, Jul 17, 2009.

  1. King of Interns

    King of Interns Simply a laptop enthusiast

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    Now that 7 has been released I am thinking of making transition from vista to Windows 7 Home premium 64bit. Is this new operating system however better at coping with SSD's than its predesessor or will it try to thrash it like a regular HDD.
    Any experience from those running SSD's with Windows 7 is also greatly appreciated!
     
    King of Interns, Jul 17, 2009
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    Running vlited W7 on EeePC 900 with single 16Gb SSD.

    Runs okay, quick even, but **occasionally** starts up with CHKDSK. Never finds any errors - must be something wrong with shutdown processing; possibly leaving the disk in an unexpected state? Dunno...
     
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  4. Kcissem

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    you will only gain benifits from win7 with ssd's if your ssd supports Trim commands, if it does not you will still have to do the tweaks yourself.
     
    Kcissem, Jul 27, 2009
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    no tweaks are needed on ssds. that is a myth back from the terrible jmicron based ssds.


    win7 will auto"tweak", if it detect an ssd (and has different rules to detect one). it does, for example, disable automatic defragmentation in the scheduler.

    in general, nothing special is needed on any os to let it run on an ssd. for xp, i suggest partition alignment, while not needed on good ssd's, still a nice thing to do (you don't want to stress it just for fun needlessly :)). and on vista, auto defrag should get removed from the scheduler.

    other than that, nothing needed.

    so no, kcissem, trim is not needed to get win7 to notice your ssd and optimize for it. but still, trim is nice to have :)
     
    davepermen, Jul 29, 2009
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    not true, atleast on the RC client, as it did not turn off nothing as it should for me, I had to manually turn it all off. As far as i've read and am aware of it is the Trim command sets that controls whether useless crap is turned off or not when running SSD. This could be different in later versions of the RC but the RC version i tested was not.
     
    Kcissem, Jul 29, 2009
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    i only talk about RTM. ssd support wasnt fully done in the RC and beta. my description is the way it got described by microsoft on the betablog.
     
    davepermen, Jul 30, 2009
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