Unable to endure the speed of the home mechanical hard drive, the characteristics of a solid-state hard drive to taste fresh. Because the home computer is older, SATA interface is still 2.0, so I simply bought a piece of low-end SSD, Shadow Armor War 240G (the key is the price is cheap enough).
1, to play the largest SSD performance, the computer should pay attention to the following points:
(1) Confirm whether the motherboard has SATA3 native interface, if the SATA2 can only play half of the effect.
(2) into the BIOS to see if the AHCI mode is turned on, the selection menu is usually called "PCH SATA control mode" to select AHCI. If you choose the IDE, the continuous read speed is 100mb/s than AHCI mode.
(3) Whether the motherboard supports UEFI Quick Start (described below)
1, hard disk partition initialization
Here is the use of Diskgenius to partition, convenient and fast, and can automatically 4K alignment.
(1) I use the quick partition directly here, because using the Win7 system, the partition table type chooses MBR
(Win8 system, if you want to use UEFI to do the speed start, then use the GUID type.) Of course, to verify that the motherboard BIOS supports UEFI)
(2) Note that the "Align partitions to the number of this sector integer multiple" so that you can 4K alignment.
(3) 32-bit system sector number input value is 2048. If the system is 64 bits, it is recommended to enter a value of 4096.
3, the format finished first test the performance
(1) Use crystaldiskinfo to view hard drive information
This tool is very easy to use, you can see the hard disk indicators, health status, power time, the number of times and so on.
You can see that although this SSD can support SATA3, it is only running under the SATA2 interface.
(2) Use as SSD to test performance
Sure enough, under the SATA2 to play the biggest effect, but compared to the original mechanical hard disk is still too much good.
4, System installation (on SSD mounted a Win7 system, with the original HDD components of the dual system)
(1) Since Win7 has adopted the latest image installation technology, all system files are packaged into images, no need to use Ghost, and Ghost compatibility is also discounted.
(2) First the Win7 original image file with virtual CD-ROM loading.
(3) Prepare a powerful image installation tool called Gimagex, click the Apply Image option button in the window.
Under Apply image, next to select Image, click the Browse button to select the "instll.wim" image file in the Win7 virtual disk.
Then, click the Browse button next to apply to to select a letter to install the system.
Next, click the Select button next to select the image volume to apply to select the Win7 version.
Finally, click the Apply button to copy all Win7 system files to the installation letter
(4) Use EASYBCD to add the installation partition to the boot menu. Add a new startup item in the "Adding an entry" (The drive is just the installation letter)
You can see that the boot menu has been added successfully
Below, reboot the system select the boot menu just added to start the installation of Windows 7, as a direct installation on the SSD, while reducing the installation process of the time to extract the files, so loaded up quickly
