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I have noticed my SSD is not aligned to the 1024K ,its running 31K BAD

Can some one explain or walk me through the process with out loosing all my data?
Problem has been fixed with a bit of testing.

*UPDATE*

I found by just wiping and re-installing Windows 7 don't fix the problem.
There are two ways to correct the alignment, One use OCZ Sanitary Wipe, Two when doing a clean install select the disk your going install windows on and click on it. Select delete drive and restart. Now back on the same screen click on NEW and don't partition the drive, let windows do it for you, that's the key.

I came to my conclusion on how to format the drive and to have proper alignment by trial and error and these steps work. Why a ssd becomes un-aligned is beyond me but a proper aligned drive is a difference from day to night. :D

I hope this helps some having Alignment problems.

Grab Sanitary erase for Indilinx HERE
How to use Sanitary erase click HERE
And click HERE for the rest of the info your doing to need to complete the wipe as well as the W7 32bit repair disk.
Be sure to read POST #2
 
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Heck with it, I grabbed sanitary erase and going to try it. Will let yall know what happens after I'm done.
 

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OK I'm back after getting the drive aligned. For those of you SSD owners you need to run AS SSD Benchmark. You can find it for D/L on the net. That tells you if the alinement is good or bad. Im going to update everything I found shortly. But all I gotta say is.... WOW, short and sweet. I thought this ssd was fast before, Was I ever wrong! Formatting the drive don't do shit. You need to google OCZ's program called Sanitary clean. That way the drive is totally cleaned after the program is ran.

Be back with more info. ;)
 
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OK, point being, windows starts 7 seconds faster. Every thing starts Waaaaaay faster. When you format the drive, your leaving cells dirty. Dirty = bad..(BAD) = slow. This option brings the old SSD back to 99% speed. (Outta the box) speed.

If anyone has any questions about running The sanitary erase post them, I'll be glad to help. :pimp:
 

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Cool, Mussles. I'm going to say this, a SSD that isn't aligned isn't worth a squirt of piss. It's castrated Big time. Most don't think about it but because...* it's fast as ever hey* *over a platter drive one see's it as Flash Gorden for speed* NOT!!! only when it's aligned that's where the big difference is! I seen a 300-500% gain in the way it's running now compared to before. :rockout:
 
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i don't have OCZ - I have Intel SSds.... does that matter in using sanitary erase?

I downloaded AS SSD Bench and it says I am 31k Bad as well... don't know how the hell that happens? anyway - how to go about this? back up data, wipe, copy data back over?

thanks full!!
 

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i don't have OCZ - I have Intel SSds.... does that matter in using sanitary erase?

I downloaded AS SSD Bench and it says I am 31k Bad as well... don't know how the hell that happens? anyway - how to go about this? back up data, wipe, copy data back over?

thanks full!!
Im not sure if it matters, I think not but google it to check. The links below are what I used.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/content.php?267-How-to-use-Sanitary-Erase

read post #2

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?69503-How-to-use-Sanitary-Erase

you mite wana check on Intel SSD Alignment and see what they recommend. Its Thanks giving day here tomorrow but we're having it today so with that said I'll be gone now for the day. Good luck :rockout:
 
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Im not sure if it matters, I think not but google it to check. The links below are what I used.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/content.php?267-How-to-use-Sanitary-Erase

read post #2

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?69503-How-to-use-Sanitary-Erase

you mite wana check on Intel SSD Alignment and see what they recommend. Its Thanks giving day here tomorrow but we're having it today so with that said I'll be gone now for the day. Good luck :rockout:

thanks much ! two weeks til T-day here ;) have a good one!
 
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thanks so much man :)
unfortunately I got a virus today, replaced winload.exe and nothing i did could fix it - but on the bright side it gave me an excuse to do a clean install and try this out!

I didn't use sanitary erase, i just did what you said delete the drive and restart. SSD bench now says 1034ok or whatever, and bench and boot are definitely faster...

thanks again!
 

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thanks so much man :)
unfortunately I got a virus today, replaced winload.exe and nothing i did could fix it - but on the bright side it gave me an excuse to do a clean install and try this out!

I didn't use sanitary erase, i just did what you said delete the drive and restart. SSD bench now says 1034ok or whatever, and bench and boot are definitely faster...

thanks again!
I'm glad to hear your drive is aligned proper now, and hell yeah what a difference. I could hardly believe it myself the difference it made. :toast:
 

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I have expirience with Intels. I use Win7 cd to format the disk. Or to just create partition. If installing image with Norton Ghost on that partition I get aligned WinXp or Win7 on that SSD. If installing new XpOS then I choose Quick format in XP install menu. Everything aligned. Win7 are aligned out of box.
 

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I have expirience with Intels. I use Win7 cd to format the disk. Or to just create partition. If installing image with Norton Ghost on that partition I get aligned WinXp or Win7 on that SSD. If installing new XpOS then I choose Quick format in XP install menu. Everything aligned. Win7 are aligned out of box.
Never format a SSD drive EVER! Your going to kill it, I have studied a heap of info on the dos and donts.;)

Go down load OCZ's sanitary erase program and use it. formatting a ssd leaves garbage behind, sanitary erase, cleans all the cells and bring it back to outta the box condition minus the ssd's stats on times powered up and such.....

with a ssd and W7 just follow the prompts to install and dont create the partition, W7 will do it for you and it does it well. Also make sure you install your mobo's drivers for a hassle free SSD.
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I love how much life this SSD has left in it! :toast:

 

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thats actually a pretty useful app.


also, you suck at screenshots - use alt-print screen with TPU capture, and it caps the complete window in one go (and auto uploads it!)
 

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thats actually a pretty useful app.


also, you suck at screenshots - use alt-print screen with TPU capture, and it caps the complete window in one go (and auto uploads it!)
hehe I'm used to Vista paint, W7 paint trips me out. :eek:... TPU capture... I haven't got the hang of it but will try asap...

But hey... Maybe I did it just to mess with ya! Looks cool though lol :D
 
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I love how much life this SSD has left in it! :toast:

http://img.techpowerup.org/101104/Capturessd.png

I'm not exactly great with maths but even from what I see you have 68% life left in your SSD which equals out to be over 9 years left, surely going by those figures alone to figure out how long the drive has actually been running is something like 4+ years?

I may be way off so please someone tell me if I've got this totally wrong?

thats actually a pretty useful app.


also, you suck at screenshots - use alt-print screen with TPU capture, and it caps the complete window in one go (and auto uploads it!)

I'm having a few problems with TPU Capture, goes through the saving/uploading ok but then I'm unable to see the uploaded image so therefore I have to use www.techpowerup.org to upload any images I want to use here :( I've also checked firewall settings and nothing seem's set wrong there. If you don't have a quick answer I'll probably start a new thread about it as I feel bad for hijacking this post already. :cool:
 

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also, you suck at screenshots - use alt-print screen with TPU capture, and it caps the complete window in one go (and auto uploads it!)

Or, if TPUcap isn't working at least save yourself some hassle with Snipping Tool - under accessories on the start menu! ;)

Interesting thread BTW :toast:
 
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