spandauguard Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 I have windows 7 installed on an x64 SSD and the OS does not recognize the drive as an SSD as it does not disable defrag, prefetch, etc. Is there any way to force windows to see this as a SSD? I have run windows experience index 4 separate times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 What does the Windows Experience Index have to do with recognizing the hardware? It just assigns a score to the sytem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spandauguard Posted October 26, 2009 Author Share Posted October 26, 2009 I have read on the forum that the windows experience index has to be run so that windows will recognize that the drive is an SSD by the resulting performance data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
txfeinbergs Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Yeah, I read that in one of the forum posts somewhere also. I will let you know what happens with my P256 tomorrow. I guess worst case you can always turn that stuff off manually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonzos-revenge Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 It´s a sticky called " Windows 7 SSD F.A.Q. from Microsoft " from Wired and a link to a msdn block. My X128 was recognized as ssd from Windows7 x64 and defrag was disabled from startup. But only defrag! Windows7 does not disable superfetch, prefetch or anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekahan Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 My Win7 ultimate 64bit also does not recognize my P128 as SSD. WEI HD score was 5.9, but after i manually disable defrag, indexing, etc the score now is 7.2. I think disable indexing is the most important factor to increase the score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinisterk Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Just pointing out that W7 does not disable defrag all together. It just excludes the SSD drive. Have another look if you haven't manually disabled it already. Super and Pre-fetch I am not sure about. I manually disabled it but noticed nil performance gain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotrod Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Im running Windows 7 X64 RC1 with a Corsair X-128 SSD, and I can still access the Defrag option with the SSD listed. Naturally I have never and dont defrag the SSD, but wonder why its listed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted October 27, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted October 27, 2009 You can run Disk De-frag on an SSD; it is that you do not want these utilities to run in the back ground. That will cause the self healing to not work and fill the unused part of the drive is fragments slowing the drives performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 WEI's got nothing to do with recognizing SSDs. From the afforementioned sticky / MSDN blog: What Windows Experience Index changes were made to address SSD performance characteristics? In Windows 7, there are new random read, random write and flush assessments. Better SSDs can score above 6.5 all the way to 7.9. To be included in that range, an SSD has to have outstanding random read rates and be resilient to flush and random write workloads. In the Beta timeframe of Windows 7, there was a capping of scores at 1.9, 2.9 or the like if a disk (SSD or HDD) didn’t perform adequately when confronted with our random write and flush assessments. Feedback on this was pretty consistent, with most feeling the level of capping to be excessive. As a result, we now simply restrict SSDs with performance issues from joining the newly added 6.0+ and 7.0+ ranges. SSDs that are not solid performers across all assessments effectively get scored in a manner similar to what they would have been in Windows Vista, gaining no Win7 boost for great random read performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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