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Run CMD as admin, post a screenshot of the CMD Window when you type this:
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fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo C:

Still at work but will be able to post the screenshot in the next 40-50 minutes. :.)

I'll be asleep lol.

If it Bytes Per Physical Sector is 512 like this, it is not a 4K drive:
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If it Bytes Per Physical Sector is 4096 like this, it is a 4K drive:
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I'll be asleep lol.
If it Bytes Per Physical Sector is 512 like this, it is not a 4K drive: Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
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If it Bytes Per Physical Sector is 4096 like this, it is a 4K drive: Warning: Spoiler! (Click to show)
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Hmm...pretty sure mine is 512. Physical Sectors info doesn't show up for reasons you probably know, lol. I thought you could format a drive to contain whatever size sectors you wanted. Or is that any size up to the maximum physical sector size already on the disk? Does it matter if it's a basic or dynamic volume? Thanks again for all the help and info. I do alot of sound design at home and was curious about how the larger sector size would work with my audio files and if there would be any noticeable benefit over the 512 I have now. thumb.gif

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Aw crap, I just built a new machine using a Crucial M4 and completely forgot to check if it is using 4K until I seen the posts above. Going to have to check that when I get home.
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im not sure what this 4k alignment thing is...i didn't think it was necessary to look into with brand new ssds and fresh win 7 installations.
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Sean I think i fixed it...I just set "Turn off the display" to "Never" in Power Options...so far it seems to work 100%. I'll let you know if this fails in the future.
I also have "Put the computer to sleep" , "Require a password on wakeup", and "Turn off hard disk after" all to "Never" (had these settings previously as well).
So as of now, if I want to put my PC to sleep..I have to manually click Start -> Sleep...and then manually turn off the PC monitors (which is totally fine). I always do this manually anyways. I'm a happy camper. biggrin.gif

hmm..i think it just failed. I had to ctrl-alt-delete to get back into windows from sleep...just right now. lol
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This is what I get, is there anything wrong ?
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I found this link on a form somewhere, can't remember where, but it claims this driver for Intel RST provides TRIM for RAID SSD. Anyone know if it actually works? http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=20984&lang=eng&OSVersion=%0A&DownloadType=

I recently built my father a photo editing machine with RAID0 Samsung 830 (not really for the performance increase, just to make it easier to manage a single volume), and would really like to get TRIM working on it for him if its possible.

I did a lot of looking around and it looks like this will only work with windows 8? Anyone know if there could or will be an update to windows 7 that might help this problem?
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This is what I get, is there anything wrong ?

There's nothing wrong with your drive. Just means you can't use 4K sectors instead of 512. I'm still curious as to why I didn't get any Bytes Per Physical Sector information. confused.gif
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Oh ok, for a moment there I thought there was something wrong with the 4096k optimization for my SSD.
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When installing Dropbox, should I install it to my second HDD or have it install directly on the SSD?
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