Comments on: Windows 7: One Small Step for SSDs, a Giant Step for NAND-kind http://www.micronblogs.com/2009/10/windows-7-one-small-step-for-ssds-a-giant-step-for-nand-kind/ Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:16:24 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dean Klein http://www.micronblogs.com/2009/10/windows-7-one-small-step-for-ssds-a-giant-step-for-nand-kind/comment-page-1/#comment-4636 Dean Klein Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:06:40 +0000 http://www.micronblogs.com/?p=708#comment-4636 Ayu510, Thanks for your interest in the RealSSD C300 drive. Yes, it’s true that you’ll need a SATA 6 Gb/s interface to take full advantage of the C300’s breakneck read speeds. Unfortunately, we can’t recommend particular motherboards here. I’d suggest you pose your question to the <a href="http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/bd-p/ssd" rel="nofollow">Crucial SSD forum</a>. Many of Crucial’s customers have tested several different SATA 6 Gb/s systems (and helped each other through the setup), and are getting excellent performance results from the C300. Ayu510,
Thanks for your interest in the RealSSD C300 drive. Yes, it’s true that you’ll need a SATA 6 Gb/s interface to take full advantage of the C300’s breakneck read speeds. Unfortunately, we can’t recommend particular motherboards here. I’d suggest you pose your question to the Crucial SSD forum. Many of Crucial’s customers have tested several different SATA 6 Gb/s systems (and helped each other through the setup), and are getting excellent performance results from the C300.

]]> By: ayu510 http://www.micronblogs.com/2009/10/windows-7-one-small-step-for-ssds-a-giant-step-for-nand-kind/comment-page-1/#comment-4580 ayu510 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:37:32 +0000 http://www.micronblogs.com/?p=708#comment-4580 Dean Klein, Ive researched the RealSSd C300 Micron/Crucial and i am very excited. I am currently building a desktop system which will be operated by windows 7 64bit. To support the RealSSD C300 to its full capablities will i need a motherboard which supports SATA III 6Gb/s? Will the Asus P6T SE with "SATA" work with this REALSSD? Dean Klein,

Ive researched the RealSSd C300 Micron/Crucial and i am very excited. I am currently building a desktop system which will be operated by windows 7 64bit. To support the RealSSD C300 to its full capablities will i need a motherboard which supports SATA III 6Gb/s? Will the Asus P6T SE with “SATA” work with this REALSSD?

]]> By: Dean Klein http://www.micronblogs.com/2009/10/windows-7-one-small-step-for-ssds-a-giant-step-for-nand-kind/comment-page-1/#comment-3319 Dean Klein Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:26:37 +0000 http://www.micronblogs.com/?p=708#comment-3319 Tomasz, To the best of our knowledge TRIM arrived in Linux version 2.6.28 and further improvements were made in 2.6.31. The hdparm tool can be used it turn it on. Linux continues to be refined and we’re encouraged by the pace of developments there. Newer kernels support a host of additional SSD optimizations at a very low level and we’re seeing signs of the old HDD optimizations being removed. Good stuff! Our SSD’s are O/S agnostic and we would just as soon not be some sort of referee judging who was first with what O/S feature. The point is that operating systems are implementing SSD optimizations and this is a good thing. Tomasz,

To the best of our knowledge TRIM arrived in Linux version 2.6.28 and further improvements were made in 2.6.31. The hdparm tool can be used it turn it on. Linux continues to be refined and we’re encouraged by the pace of developments there. Newer kernels support a host of additional SSD optimizations at a very low level and we’re seeing signs of the old HDD optimizations being removed. Good stuff!

Our SSD’s are O/S agnostic and we would just as soon not be some sort of referee judging who was first with what O/S feature. The point is that operating systems are implementing SSD optimizations and this is a good thing.

]]> By: Tomasz http://www.micronblogs.com/2009/10/windows-7-one-small-step-for-ssds-a-giant-step-for-nand-kind/comment-page-1/#comment-3201 Tomasz Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:45:50 +0000 http://www.micronblogs.com/?p=708#comment-3201 Uh, If by ,,optimizing for SSD'' you mean using TRIM command, Windows 7 certainly isn't first. Linux does it since 2008. Also, detection of SSD triggers Linux kernel to mark drive as non-rotating. This flag changes the I/O scheduler behaviour. Uh, If by ,,optimizing for SSD” you mean using TRIM command, Windows 7 certainly isn’t first. Linux does it since 2008. Also, detection of SSD triggers Linux kernel to mark drive as non-rotating. This flag changes the I/O scheduler behaviour.

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