wevsspot Posted June 24, 2013 Posted June 24, 2013 The Samsung 830 was an excellent SSD. Getting harder to find these days for a reasonable price, so congratulations! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black64 Posted June 24, 2013 Posted June 24, 2013 When I got my SSD it installed just like a HDD and so far no problems. I guess the only problem i"ve had is that it boots faster them my monitor can turn on. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted June 24, 2013 Posted June 24, 2013 Welcome to team! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewr05 Posted June 25, 2013 Posted June 25, 2013 Thanks! Got everything installed and setup. It seems faster, but considering I came from an 8 year old 200GB OS drive I would certainly hope so. However, as per this post I made, the more I use it the less I notice any difference. I restart so little that the start-up times are irrelevant (though I've not even timed it yet), in basic usage I'm not really sure I notice much difference to be honest. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil69 Posted June 25, 2013 Posted June 25, 2013 I notice my office suite aps. open much faster. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewr05 Posted June 25, 2013 Posted June 25, 2013 My photo editing program (Paint.net) seems a bit quicker to load up. But honestly all of this could be placebo/confirmation bias or even because its a fresh install of W7. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewr05 Posted June 25, 2013 Posted June 25, 2013 Also, my SSD is apparently running in IDE mode. I tried the Regedit fix and AHCI IS enabled in the BIOS, but it doesn't appear to want to work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewr05 Posted June 25, 2013 Posted June 25, 2013 Fixed it, swapped out SATA ports to the uhhh...'right' ones but now I just noticed as well that my drive isn't 4K aligned. Every guide I looked at when installing the SSD said that Windows 7 would automatically properly align everything 4k upon instalation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohldboy Posted June 25, 2013 Posted June 25, 2013 Usually doing the WEI performance update should accomplish this. I think. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wevsspot Posted June 25, 2013 Posted June 25, 2013 If you did a fresh install of Windows 7 or Windows 8 both of those OS would have properly aligned the hard drive partition. If you were ghosting an existing OS image to your new SSD you could have attached the SSD, ran WEI and then formatted the new SSD before moving the image over to the new SSD. Alternatively there are some different 3rd party tools that you can use to align the partition; 1. gparted 2. acronis 3. minitool partition wizard 4. intel partition tool Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewr05 Posted June 25, 2013 Posted June 25, 2013 It was a fresh install but it is not 4K aligned for some reason. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpikeSoprano Posted June 25, 2013 Posted June 25, 2013 Maybe now that's it's connected to the right sata port you should try a fresh install , might fix the problem. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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