SSD drives set up optimally utilize

Get the most out of your SSD. We reveal tips on how to not only increase the pace, but also the life of your flash drive.

Before using your new SSD into operation, you should bring it to the current state of technology - with a firmware update. You can connect the hard drive to your PC and install the tool CrystalDiskInfo 4.1.3 . Select the program to start in the second row from the top menu with a mouse click from the SSD. Directly under the name you will see the release of "firmware". Now start the browser of your choice and go to the website of the SSD manufacturer to the support area. In most cases you will find in there a newer firmware version.

Information Center: CrystalDiskInfo tells the firmware version of a flash memory hard drive information, but also on the previously studied reading and writing performance.

 

Firmware update via Windows or Boot CD  

Particularly comfortable to update the firmware of SSDs with SandForce controller. You can start the firmware supplied with the Field Updater. The tool scans for the SSD and it lists under its model name. Set to "All" is checked before the name, and click the bottom left of "Update Firmware ...". Now open an Explorer window where you select the firmware file and click "Open." They propose the following warning by clicking on "Proceed" to the wind. Please be patient, to appear right next to "All" is a green check box. Restart Crystal Disk Info: It now shows the new firmware version on your SSD.

SSDs with other controllers, the firmware upgrade is usually in an ISO file is packed, with which you make a boot CD. Alternatively, you can set the ISO file with a tool like Unetbootin 5.6.3 write to a USB stick. Please read before but just the "Firmware Update Guide" of the SSD manufacturer's instructions. Frequent firmware updates, set by boot media requires some tweaking in the BIOS. So you need about the m4 model Crucial to the SATA mode to "IDE" Legacy "or" compatibility mode "position since the firmware update with" AHCI does not work. "

Firmware update made ​​easy: The Program Field Updater for SSDs with SandForce controller runs under Windows and automatically detects the SSD model.

 

No compromise: put new operating system

For maximum stability, durability and speed, you should install the operating system on the SSD. SSDs are suited for Mac OS X, Linux (kernel 2.6.33) and Windows 7 - only to support the Trim command, which carries an automatic garbage collection for a consistently high write performance. Who holds on to Windows XP or Vista, it with tools such as Secure Erase 4.0 manually perform garbage collection. Your old hard drive - if available - use now as a pure data storage.

A Windows 8 tablet offers hope as potent iPad foe

A Windows 8 Metro screen showing Microsoft Office 15 applications. Having a full version of Office on a tablet may be Microsoft's trump card.

(Credit: Microsoft)

With Windows 8 now on a clearer path to release, expect the big device makers to try to crash the raucous Apple party with Microsoft leading the way.
Whither Android? So far, the only Android tablet supplier to come close to busting up the nonstop iPad festivities is Amazon.
That's high irony. Amazon is hardly a hardware company. And certainly a far cry from the likes of Motorola, Dell, Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, and Asus. All of which have failed to come up with a blockbuster Android alternative to the iPad. (Samsung and Asus have had limited success, but nothing that rivals the iPad in numbers.)
Here's what Deutsche Bank's Chris Whitmore said this week in a research note below a heading entitled "No iPad-killer in this bunch."
Analyst unsure about Android: "In the past 12 months, the tablet market has been flooded with a slew of Android-based devices; none of which have matched the success of the iPad. From a hardware perspective, it is clear most offerings are 'me-too' with little to no differentiation."
Whitmore continues. "We continue to believe these Android-based 'iPad-killers' will fall short. Many [device makers] seem to agree and are shifting their efforts on Win8 based tablets, which should ship in 2H12 (second half 2012)."
And this week that shift gained some velocity when Microsoft provided more clarity about Windows 8 on ARM in fairly exacting detail.
Waiting for a Windows 8 tablet: Personally, I'm anxious to get my hands on a Win 8 tablet from, say, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Sony, or Samsung. Why? My experience (going on two months now) with the Motorola-Verizon XyBoard 10.1 (aka, Xoom 2) running Android 3.2 has been less than satisfying (though I do love Motorola's thin, lightweight design). In short, Android on my XyBoard doesn't have the reliability of iOS on my iPad 2.

source:cnet

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