Important observation on firmware updates and TRIM!

[omnimodis78]

I just ran a WEI and my primary hard drive score went from the typical 7.7 down to 7.3! I'm not one to care too much about synthetic benchmarks, but given the loose scoring of WEI a score discrepancy of 4 points is a considerable drop, so by instinct I went to see if TRIM was actually working. If you recall there's a tread on here about how to activate TRIM in windows 7 (Enabling TRIM in Windows 7 with a Phoenix/Phoenix Pro SSD: http://www.gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t=7056). I went into regedit and realized, for the first time, that every time I update the firmware for my drive, it simply adds the new records, and doesn't do much with the old ones - including that the registry change we manually implement for TRIM doesn't automatically carry over to the new driver version.



So, be sure to manually go into your registry and add the DSMDataSizeCapInBlocks line after updating the firmware!

Question: is there a safe way to delete the old driver entries? Are they needed? Will a simply click and delete works given that it's in the registry?...

[omnimodis78]

Well, just a follow up with the driver uninstallation question I had, I took care of it by following this guide: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...-new-hardware/

The guide is very easy to follow, and it worked! And also my score is back to 7.7!