SSD ABC Guide – OCZ Forum ii © 2014 OCZ Storage Solutions SSD ABC Guide – OCZ Forum Contents 1 - 8 .......................................................................................... Identifying your SSD ..................................................................................................................................................... 1 Products ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2 Unpacking and Handling your SSD .............................................................................................................................. 3 Fitting your SSD ............................................................................................................................................................ 4 Desktop ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Laptop/Notebook ........................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Powering On and Self Testing (POST) your SSD ......................................................................................................... 4 Detecting your SSD ....................................................................................................................................................... 5 Clear CMOS ............................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Operating System Installation .................................................................................................................................. 5 - 6 Windows ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Apple OS/X ................................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Linux ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Power Options and Diagnosis ....................................................................................................................................... 6 Sleep, Hibernation, Hybrid Sleep Settings ............................................................................................................... 6 - 7 Alignment ...................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Installing with USB ........................................................................................................................................................ 8 CD ISO Extracting ......................................................................................................................................................... 8 9 - 10 ............................................................................................................ Motherboard Compatibility ............................................................................................................................................ 9 Monitoring Operating System Activity ......................................................................................................................... 13 Process Monitor (Procmon) ...................................................................................................................................................... 13 Resource Monitor (Resmon) .................................................................................................................................................... 13 Windows Task Manager ........................................................................................................................................................... 13 14 - 18 .............................................................................................................. Firmware Updating ...................................................................................................................................................... 14 How to check current Firmware ................................................................................................................................................ 14 Considerations.......................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Windows ................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Linux ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Apple MAC OS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 15 Over Provisioning ........................................................................................................................................................ 15 Benchmarking ............................................................................................................................................................. 15 TRIM ............................................................................................................................................................................ 16 Page/Swap .................................................................................................................................................................. 16 Windows Accelerators. ................................................................................................................................................ 17 Fragmentation ...................................................................................................................................................... 17 - 15 Windows Indexing and Drive Indexing ...................................................................................................................... 196 System Restore and Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) ....................................................................................... 17 Image and Restore ...................................................................................................................................................... 17 ATA Secure Erase (SE). ............................................................................................................................................. 17 OCZ Sanitary Erase. ................................................................................................................................................... 17 OCZ GC_Tool ............................................................................................................................................................. 17 S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) ............................................................................. 18 OCZ Sandforce based SSD SMART ........................................................................................................................................ 18 OCZ Indilinx based SSD SMART ............................................................................................................................................. 18 ii © 2014 OCZ Storage Solutions SSD ABC Guide – OCZ Forum © 2014 OCZ Storage Solutions, Inc.- A Toshiba Group Company. All Rights Reserved. The information in this document is proprietary and confidential to OCZ Storage Solutions, Inc. - A Toshiba Group Company (OCZ). No part of this document may be reproduced in any form or by any means, and may not be used to make any derivative work (such as translation, transformation, or adaptation) without written permission from OCZ. 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