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<blockquote data-quote="JenBell" data-source="post: 1415542" data-attributes="member: 42737"><p>First issue. Samsung SSD 830 Notebook kit USB connection dongle. Connected it to my Windows Lenovo x120e laptop (x64) and it detects the drive, formatted and enabled. The drive is not being recognized as Samsung drive in Win7. This means the magician software, likewise, cannot see the drive. AHCI mode is enabled on BIOS but that only has effect if its connected via SATA. I'll need to connect this to a Windows machine properly and then update. Will be taking the SSD home with me and connecting to my home PC.</p><p></p><p>Creating a USB Lion install failed on 2x USB keys. Downloaded Lion install again from AppStore. Bought some blank DVDs...will give them a go.</p><p></p><p>Seriously...this SSD better be worth it or I am going to punish myself by using the Lenovo for a week for work-_-</p><p></p><p>(Canuck...er...not sure if what you said is a good thing or not...er...thank you?)</p><p></p><p>Update:</p><p>MBP has been installed with Samsung 830 512GB SSD. Corsair 2x 8GB (16GB) RAM also installed.</p><p>I decided against touching the trackpad. I am going to see how it goes for a few days before I decide to look into it.</p><p>Decided that I am also going to buy the OWC data doubler. The HDD that came with the MBP (750GB 7200RPM Sata2 1.5Gbps) is a perfect fit. I'd honestly prefer to use my old Seagate MomentusXT 750GB but its a Sata3 drive and not reliable enough (OWC has articles on this). Keep changing my mind on the whole doubler thing.</p><p></p><p>Issues during build:</p><p>1. SSD already had latest firmware</p><p>2. The reason for my failed USB Lion install was simple, install is has issues with me (friend did the same thing as I did on my laptop and made a key fine)</p><p>3. Reason for failed DVD Lion install burns - laptop DVDROM is dying...well almost dead</p><p>4. I almost drool-killed the SSD (its so smooth and shiny;-)</p><p></p><p>Lion is installed to version 10.7.4. No firmware updates, just some itunes, safari and minor updates to apply. Will do this in the morning.</p><p></p><p>Benchmark test came out fine. It's stable RAM wise. CPU is cool. No idea what the temps were. No installed anything yet.</p><p></p><p>So next stage. Not so fun part. Installing all the apps and tweaks, etc and then getting my photoshop setup back.</p><p></p><p>SSD Optimisations:</p><p></p><p>1. Disabled writing RAM to HDD when closing lid / enter hibernate mode</p><p>2. Disabled the failing sensor setting</p><p>3. Enabled TRIM support via Trim tweak app. (I enabled TRIM even though the driver has an internal idle garbage collection timer, the garbage timer at the SSD level would still re-arrange the any data on the SSD, whereas enabled TRIM would ensure the SSD level GC would not move the data deleted in the OS, which will reduce writes. One thing to bear in mind, if you are using SandForce controllers and they have active GC, then dont enable TRIM as in this instance OS TRIM will actually work against it and reduce performance).</p><p>4. Disabled putting HDD to sleep in energy saving settings for both battery/power profiles.</p><p></p><p>Got a few more SDD tweaks I am looking at, last access time is something I need to look into more detail to understand exactly what the effects are all round.</p><p></p><p>Will keep updating this thread till I finish.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JenBell, post: 1415542, member: 42737"] First issue. Samsung SSD 830 Notebook kit USB connection dongle. Connected it to my Windows Lenovo x120e laptop (x64) and it detects the drive, formatted and enabled. The drive is not being recognized as Samsung drive in Win7. This means the magician software, likewise, cannot see the drive. AHCI mode is enabled on BIOS but that only has effect if its connected via SATA. I'll need to connect this to a Windows machine properly and then update. Will be taking the SSD home with me and connecting to my home PC. Creating a USB Lion install failed on 2x USB keys. Downloaded Lion install again from AppStore. Bought some blank DVDs...will give them a go. Seriously...this SSD better be worth it or I am going to punish myself by using the Lenovo for a week for work-_- (Canuck...er...not sure if what you said is a good thing or not...er...thank you?) Update: MBP has been installed with Samsung 830 512GB SSD. Corsair 2x 8GB (16GB) RAM also installed. I decided against touching the trackpad. I am going to see how it goes for a few days before I decide to look into it. Decided that I am also going to buy the OWC data doubler. The HDD that came with the MBP (750GB 7200RPM Sata2 1.5Gbps) is a perfect fit. I'd honestly prefer to use my old Seagate MomentusXT 750GB but its a Sata3 drive and not reliable enough (OWC has articles on this). Keep changing my mind on the whole doubler thing. Issues during build: 1. SSD already had latest firmware 2. The reason for my failed USB Lion install was simple, install is has issues with me (friend did the same thing as I did on my laptop and made a key fine) 3. Reason for failed DVD Lion install burns - laptop DVDROM is dying...well almost dead 4. I almost drool-killed the SSD (its so smooth and shiny;-) Lion is installed to version 10.7.4. No firmware updates, just some itunes, safari and minor updates to apply. Will do this in the morning. Benchmark test came out fine. It's stable RAM wise. CPU is cool. No idea what the temps were. No installed anything yet. So next stage. Not so fun part. Installing all the apps and tweaks, etc and then getting my photoshop setup back. SSD Optimisations: 1. Disabled writing RAM to HDD when closing lid / enter hibernate mode 2. Disabled the failing sensor setting 3. Enabled TRIM support via Trim tweak app. (I enabled TRIM even though the driver has an internal idle garbage collection timer, the garbage timer at the SSD level would still re-arrange the any data on the SSD, whereas enabled TRIM would ensure the SSD level GC would not move the data deleted in the OS, which will reduce writes. One thing to bear in mind, if you are using SandForce controllers and they have active GC, then dont enable TRIM as in this instance OS TRIM will actually work against it and reduce performance). 4. Disabled putting HDD to sleep in energy saving settings for both battery/power profiles. Got a few more SDD tweaks I am looking at, last access time is something I need to look into more detail to understand exactly what the effects are all round. Will keep updating this thread till I finish. [/QUOTE]
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