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Performance Issues Solved::D The poor X25-M SSD performance was due to a heavily used (and heavily fragmented) drive with over 1000 hours on it. This was the first drive I purchased last December. After some research, I discovered the issue with fragmentation of the Intel SSD's and also...

THanks for the input Kyle. I had already disabled Write Cache & Defrag, but didn't know about Superfetch. After disabling Superfetch, WEI will no longer compute an index, but CrystalDiskMark shows the following: -------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (C) 2007-2008...

I just found and read this article on Anandtech http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531 It's very informative and if you're at all interested in the current state of SSD's and how they perform not only compared to one another, but compared to themselves over time, take 10 or 15...

Jeradw - thanks for the input. Yes, I just completed a download and install of the latest EVGA drivers for Win 7 RC 32 bit - still have a WEI graphics score of 4.3 - but then I knew this wasn't a blazing video card when I bought it. I got a card with fairly good performance for what I needed...

Thanks for your input Kevj. I'm using the 80 MB drive with a single partition which was created and prepared by the Win 7 RC install disk. There is about 25 GB free left on the drive. I did notice that for some reason, Win 7 had not turned off the scheduled defragmentation schedule - indicating...

Ive just completed an OS install of Win 7 32 bit Build 7100 on a fresh Intel X25-M. Hardware consists of: Asus P6T Deluxe VII Intel i7 920 OCZ Platinum DDR3-1600 - 6 GB EVEVGA 01G-P3-N959-TR GeForce 9500 GT 1GB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SeaSonic M12 SS-700HM 700W ATX12V...