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How comes that two years old Intel X-25E still beats new SSDs that just or recently were released? I know SLC drives are quite faster, but so much? Or does Intel use some very specific controllers?

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Is it possible to add direct link to user control panel or the subscriptions themselves to the main page? I find it totally wrong to click about five times to check for new replies in discussions I am interested in...

Interesting points there. Are the slower speeds with small files really THAT noticeable? I mean, I find it hard to believe it could get worse than standard HDD! I am not expecting miracles of course, and same speeds (still talking about the problematic type of data) as HDD - when things finally goes "bad" - would be pretty acceptable for me. For some reason I hate the idea of having two HDDs in my PC (and I don't need more than roughly 30GB of space for system anyway)

Aaah, thank you. I thought there is a bit simplier way to get there

Pardon my ignorance, but ever since MSfN moved to the new version of the forums, I can't seem to find the list of threads i subscribed to. Can someone give me pointers please?

Well, the way I see it, SSD is perfect for system drive. It is so fast, and like you said - swap is good example (although that file is owerwritten so much I am not sure if it wouldn't have big impact on drive's performance over time, and lifetime of course), and just to have the system on separate drive when the data partition (the way I have it now) is busy working with torrents or loading something else. You could argue I could get another TB drive for less, but SSD can't have bad sectors, right?

Well, I must point out I am not after capacity at all. I was just looking for viable alternative for system drive I am aware of theoretical disadvantages, I assume mainly the lower speeds when the drive fills up, but isn't that mostly solved by the TRIM command and generally newer controllers the drives have nowadays?

I recently started thinking about buying one, but apparently there is so much I don't know about the subject, so I better ask I did read an article some months ago about SSDs, stating that most are pretty slow and suffer from slow write speeds, and that pretty much only Intel got it right. Is it still so? First I thought about getting single-cell drive, but then saw the prices. Ouch. Anyway, performance comes at a cost... What would you recommend then? I started to dig in some more articles and what caught my attention was statement that SATA2 is not quite enough, and a brief notice about new PCI-e drives. I couldn't find any. What's the deal? Thanks for all possible info.

This tool likes like modified vLite. Almost same looks. Interesting. I'll give it a shot later today.

I noticed on Twitter that you started playing around with components removal. I am greatly impressed! Can't wait for test version

Well, in my case I was reading the key from the box, so.. Regarding the services, yes you are right. But having the drop-down menu appear upon clicking anywhere on the button would still be nice It would make sense too, because you do get the "animation" (if moving the button slightly can be called so) anyway.

I got a suggestion and a bug report: suggestion: I assume that the CD key always has same format in terms of length of each segment of chars, so when you type in enough chars in current tab, make the cursor advance to next one? At least Windows install does this bug: When digging in services I found out that when I highlighted one and then clicked on the button, nothing happened except for the button moving slightly (two pixels?) to the right. I had to click twice to make the drop-down menu appear. Oh and btw, I believe vLite has the option to remove integrated drivers after their installation (they apparently would be uselessly stored somwwhere if not). Perhaps we could have the same in 7C?

Blue, what are the immediate future development plans? What do you have up your sleeve?

Wrong question. Now WHEN, but WHAT will be in it

Blue, are there any development news?

Please tell me there is a way to make the forums look like before - this is unreadable and total chaos (at least for me).

I got an idea. Is it possible to make 7Customizer automatically look for needed files from WAIK if it is installed (I assume there is a way to check that)? OR Just make some kind of simple options where you would just tell the program where WAIK is installed. You'd have to do it just once. I hate to manually browse for stuff

So the SSDs are not working at their full speed potential, right?

Ordered HP LP2475w, hoping it was not a hasty choice. But hey, I need to enjoy gaming over the xmas

Allright, but is the Intel way a good decision or are there better options?

So I decided it's time to upgrade from my great but nowadays little small Samsung SyncMaster 215TW. The trouble is that most monitors are TN, which is unacceptable. Can someone recommnend me nice 24" one with good screen? I assume something-IPS is the best nowadays...

I will add my question here rather than starting a new thread. How bad is the wear-over-time "feature" of SSDs? I was looking at Intel (various articles state that it's the only brand worth buying), specifically "Intel SSD High Performance X25-E SATA II (SLC)", but it's quite expensive (for me), so I need to be sure about it. Does anyone have any experience with these? Especially the speed in the problematic situations where SSDs generally are slow etc.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

Well, according to him the installer simply refuses to continue... Weird.