January 25, 201214 yr How full is the drive?Is AHCI enabled in the SATA controller where the SSD is connected?Is it connected to an Intel SATA port?Is the partition alligned?This drive runs FSX. Look in signature*. Drive is about half full.AHCI is enabled on all of my drives.Yes. Although it is a SATA II SSD.What is a partition "alignement"?
January 25, 201214 yr This drive runs FSX. Look in signature*. Drive is about half full.AHCI is enabled on all of my drives.Yes. Although it is a SATA II SSD.What is a partition "alignement"?Run -> msinfo32 -> Components -> Storage -> DisksScroll down to the SSD you want to check for alignment and post the "Partition Starting offset" for partition #0
January 25, 201214 yr Run -> msinfo32 -> Components -> Storage -> DisksScroll down to the SSD you want to check for alignment and post the "Partition Starting offset" for partition #0I understand that there is a process to running this. BUT, what exactly is this going to do to my system? I am always cautious when "toying" around with the software side on my PC. Edited January 25, 201214 yr by benorg
January 25, 201214 yr I understand that there is a process to running this. BUT, what exactly is this going to do to my system? I am always cautious when "toying" around with the software side on my PC.It's not going to do anything, it's just going to display information related to your installed disksThis is my Caviar GreenDescription Disk driveManufacturer (Standard disk drives)Model WDC WD10EARS-22Y5B1 ATA DeviceBytes/Sector 512Media Loaded YesMedia Type Fixed hard diskPartitions 2SCSI Bus 4SCSI Logical Unit 0SCSI Port 2SCSI Target ID 0Sectors/Track 63Size 931.51 GB (1,000,202,273,280 bytes)Total Cylinders 121,601Total Sectors 1,953,520,065Total Tracks 31,008,255Tracks/Cylinder 255Partition Disk #0, Partition #0Partition Size 296.88 GB (318,770,694,144 bytes)Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytesPartition Disk #0, Partition #1Partition Size 634.63 GB (681,430,745,088 bytes)Partition Starting Offset 318,770,758,656 bytes The relevant part is Partition Disk #0, Partition #0Partition Size 296.88 GB (318,770,694,144 bytes)Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes If you're afraid of it, you can download AS-SSD. It's a benchmark that checks aligment too Edited January 25, 201214 yr by dazz
January 25, 201214 yr It's not going to do anything, it's just going to display information related to your installed disksThis is my Caviar GreenDescription Disk driveManufacturer (Standard disk drives)Model WDC WD10EARS-22Y5B1 ATA DeviceBytes/Sector 512Media Loaded YesMedia Type Fixed hard diskPartitions 2SCSI Bus 4SCSI Logical Unit 0SCSI Port 2SCSI Target ID 0Sectors/Track 63Size 931.51 GB (1,000,202,273,280 bytes)Total Cylinders 121,601Total Sectors 1,953,520,065Total Tracks 31,008,255Tracks/Cylinder 255Partition Disk #0, Partition #0Partition Size 296.88 GB (318,770,694,144 bytes)Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytesPartition Disk #0, Partition #1Partition Size 634.63 GB (681,430,745,088 bytes)Partition Starting Offset 318,770,758,656 bytes The relevant part is Partition Disk #0, Partition #0Partition Size 296.88 GB (318,770,694,144 bytes)Partition Starting Offset 32,256 bytes If you're afraid of it, you can download AS-SSD. It's a benchmark that checks aligment too I'll check that out tomorrow. I've got to finish up my studies for tonight and quit posting in the forums.
January 25, 201214 yr Author Theres also a software only solution that works with any SSD drive called 'fancycache'. Its going through beta testing right now -- if any of you have some free time, and an SSD to spare, would love to hear your feedback!http://www.romexsoft...us/fancy-cache/Quoted from their forum: http://www.romexsoftware.com/bbs2/en-us/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1077"Now.. One of the biggest reasons I wanted to try your program was because a new PC game called "RAGE" came out recently and I've done some testing about it's stuttering and poor performance, and watched windows task manager on my second screen while playing, and noticed 'Hard Drive Active time' was at % - 99% just driving around in the world.Well, then I downloaded FanyCache and alloted 3gb of ram to it as a test, let it do it's thing (whatever it does) and then re-ran RAGE.First 5 minutes of playing, hard drive active time on the primary hard drive raid array was still rather high hovering around %, cache read hit rate was at 20% in FancyCacheAbout 7-8 minutes into playing, hard drive active time was averaging around 50%, cache read hit rate was around 75%.About 10 minutes into playing, hard drive active time was 0% - 5%, and remained there the entire time I had the game open, cache read hit rate was around 90% - 95%.Not only that, but the random stuttering was completely eliminated and the game now flows at a solid 60 FPS at all times outdoors or indoors.I've seen similar improvements in games like Skyrim, oblivion, and Half-Life 2, it takes about 7-10 minutes once the game starts before noticing but after a little while gaming, the load times between areas are deffinetely very quick to nearly instant.Edit: I was using 64kb block size for all tests.I ordered a 24gb set of ram on NewEgg earlier this evening, and I'll do some more testing to see what FancyCache can do on this system with 16gb - 20gb of cache to work with.First impressions: I really like this software, and I'll buy a license as long as it's not too expensive." Edited January 25, 201214 yr by OmniAtlas Soarbywire - Avionics Engineering
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