FYI, the any SSD (Crucial included) has overprovisioning of flash to allow for graceful cell failure management.
Samsung expose it in an adjustable fashion, you COULD minimise the overprovision amount, but I'd say it's a very very very bad idea. -James On 2 August 2014 20:22, FORC5 <[email protected]> wrote: > kind of figured that, suppose I could clone it off and back. > drive is a Crucial ( I think) need to look at that. I like Samsung except > they use drive space for a OP partition. 10% recommended. bad to loose > space. Do like their sw, Crucial claims they are working on some. > Any after market SW you can recommend ? > Already dl'ed AVG to replace MSE. Not sure what else to do. > > So far have found some win32/trojans according to ESET. scan not done yet. > > hate working on antiques. :-) > thanks > fp > At 12:08 PM 8/2/2014, Greg Sevart Poked the stick with: > > > XP doesn't support TRIM, the lack of which can slow SSDs down over time. >> Some handle it better than others. If it's a Samsung or Intel, install the >> manufacturer's utility and run the optimization. If it's anything else, >> the >> drive needs secure erased. >> >> Staying with XP should not be considered an option. Same goes for MSE, >> since >> it has turned to crap. >> > > Date: Saturday, August 2nd, 2014 > > ***Caution Tagline Below*** > **Tallyho** > ******************************************* > Everyone hates me because I'm paranoid > ******************************************* > > > > > > > > > > >
