what are some things i can do to tweak the times and speeds, and what really matters in terms of performance? obviously i want all the numbers to be as high (or low) as possible.. but will i really notice a difference of 0.025ms? and a 4k read speed of +20mb/s?
If it feels fast, you're good.
The tweaks you can do now to eek a little speed and 0.01-0.02 ms on the access times will not be noticeable.
You will have to run a benchmark to see the difference.
I would set your Power Options to High Performance and call it a day.
Sit back, relax and enjoy that fast SSD.
I'm still amazed everytime I bootup and shutdown
I'm patiently waiting for the Intel G3's to come out, it's tough waiting and that 120GB you have looks very tempting
My dual bay laptop is getting tired of waiting for this X25-V.
its a desktop, i assume its always on full power (i could be wrong)
and, i do enjoy the hell out of it :)
Desktops have three options, Power Saver, Balanced and High Performance.
You want consistant power to your SSD, use High Performance.
HDDs function just fine on reduced or adjustable power, SSDs don't.
Thanks for the info on this. Bought a Corsair SSD Force Series 120GB and used Seagates version of Acronis to clone my System partition to it. Had two problems with it though, first boot I got a BSOD after some drivers got automatically installed (hasn't happened again since). The other problem I had I consider more serious - two out of three encrypted drives got their volume headers corrupted and couldn't be mounted until I restored them from backup. I don't know the cause for this but the timing would suggest Acronis was messing about with drives that hadn't been formatted by Windows (the drive that wasn't affected was formatted before encryption) so I'd recommend anyone using encrypted drives to disconnect them prior to installing Acronis, do the cloning, uninstall the software and then reconnect the drives.
That is useful additional information. I wonder though, what Acronis had to do with the "other" drives where it was supposed to only image and restore the C partition.
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