SSD Upgrade questions

I installed a Crucial MX100 256 GB SSD along side my 1TB mechanical HD, moved the OS to the SSD and kept data on the hard drive, etc. It's all working quite well, but I have a couple of questions:

1. When I did the shrink on the hard drive partition I set it to 240 GB (240x1024 = 245,760,000). I intentionally made it a little smaller than the SSD's 256 GB (256 GB/1024 = 250,000,000) to make sure it would fit. I thought I'd be able to extend the size afterward on the SSD, but neither the Windows 7 Disk Manager nor EaseUS Partition Master see any extra room at the end of the partition. I did include the 100MB system partition at the front end but there should have been a few GB leftover - just curious

2. My motherboard only supports SATA 2. I've read that the benefit of an SSD is mostly the very fast access time, but I'm wondering if there would be some small additional benefit from installing a PCIe SATA 3 card? My mobo supports PCIe 2.0 and the BIOS has a boot from add-in card option.

Please post a screenshot of your Disk Management window.
Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image
Yeah there should be ~4GB of unallocated space. Post a snip of the disk management.

Britton30 said:

Please post a screenshot of your Disk Management window.
Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image
Yeah there should be ~4GB of unallocated space. Post a snip of the disk management.

Here's the Disk Management window, and also the AS SSD test score.

Not quite the proper way to post a snip as outlined in the tut.
From what little I can see all the available space on the SSD is used.

Yup, exactly what mine shows, although a have an unallocated partition.

Britton30 said:

Not quite the proper way to post a snip as outlined in the tut.
From what little I can see all the available space on the SSD is used.

Was the original screenshot missing information? Anyway I redid it and I agree it looks better :) Thanks for the confirmation that the SSD space is being fully utilized.

Yeah it was a bit truncated and you used a 3rd party image host, we like them uploaded here at SF.
Yup, I think your SSD is fine. Thanks for updating the image.

Britton30 said:

Yeah it was a bit truncated and you used a 3rd party image host, we like them uploaded here at SF.
Yup, I think your SSD is fine. Thanks for updating the image.

Ah, thanks for the explanation. I'll remember to upload here next time. By the way, do the AS SSD numbers look OK?

Victek said:

Britton30 said:

Yeah it was a bit truncated and you used a 3rd party image host, we like them uploaded here at SF.
Yup, I think your SSD is fine. Thanks for updating the image.

Ah, thanks for the explanation. I'll remember to upload here next time. By the way, do the AS SSD numbers look OK?

The 4K and access times are real good. It would do better I think if you have the Intel iastor SATA driver for that board. IT should be on the SATA_0 or SATA_1 header, I think.