FlashFire 0.99 for Vista / 7 (32-bit)

[juandante]

Working good on a very weak HDD with Vista.

Boot speed is still the same (I didn't really care about that), but the gain in speed to open applications is present. I can open 2 Internet Explorer windows in 7 seconds whereas I had to wait 50 seconds before.

Works also on 7 on my EEEPC 900, this machine became very responsive but this EEEPC have 2 hard drives and 7 is on the second one (8GB one), so I had to configure Flashfire to use the second drive in the registry editor.

Result : no more wait time when opening the Internet Browser, etc.

[G1 SLC user]

This works on an Mtron 32GB SLC SSD (acquired prior to them going bankrupt... they should have hired this author?) in Win 7 (32-bit) with all hotfixes (installed after installation to test if hotfixes work with flashfire installed, they do) and all other known tweaks to increase SSD speed including aligned disk, turning off system restore, etc etc.

This doesn't just "work," the results are ridiculous.

I tested this with Iometer before and after flashfire installation. I used the 4k_ran_write.icf file to test just 4k write which was my main concern as my database inserts were lagging on the SSD.

4k random write before flashfire:
Total average iops 140, gradually sliding down to 60 by the end of the 3 minute test. Yuck.
Average access 20ms, gradually going up to 22ms by the end of the test. Like a mechanical disk!

4k random write after flashfire:
Total average iops... 28,000, gradually gearing up to over 30,000 by the end of the 3 minute test. I even stopped the test and reloaded the settings as I thought I had run a read test by accident. Nope.
Average access ~0.1ms, holding solid the entire test.

This was the same 4k_ran_write.icf test, same settings, same everything. Only difference was installing flashfire.

I retested this with Crystaldisk benchmark and even a massive INSERT to a mySQL table. I was suspicious that this program merely patched Iometer to give false results, but any random write test gave stellar results.

To the author, you are my hero. Thank you for turning this drive-looking gizmo into a high-quality SSD with this 75kb program. The only problem is now I have no reason to buy a new drive.

[G1 SLC User]

I did some updated tests and tried to push the sectors used in iometer further past the available RAM. This resulted in lower scores. The IOPS still averaged a respectable 2,000 when filling the disk. I noticed the CPU maxed out at this level which may have skewed these benchmarks.

[krimosys]

yes

[Yirmes]

Hi,

I read many great comments about FlashFire, I own a netbook (Acer Aspire One) with a G-Skill SSD and I encounter pretty serious lags while using my music creation softwares... the only problem is that I can't use FlashFire, I tried to install it many times but the only file installed is the "uninstall.exe" application. Well, I know this topic has already been mentioned on the website, but never received any concrete answer. Could anyone help ?

Thanks in advance !!!

[dubeena]

Vista - if somebody is running vista how do you access the start up programs so can turn them off? I need to find out how to access the start up programs on windows Vista, want to turn the start up programs off. Could somebody give me idiot proof instructions please as in step by step?

[bgreven]

Hi

Does anyone know if there is a way to disable flashfire in win7?
(many thanks to the developer)