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Does Windows 7 see my SSD as HDD?

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Mar 15, 20261267 views
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i installed Win7 on an SSD (intel X25-M G2) and i guess it does not recognize it as an SSD since some services are still running that should be disabled automatically (like superfetch). I enabled AHCI-Mode in the Bios. Does someone know how to check if it uses the drive as an SSD? Thanks.

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The windows team have said this: Will Superfetch be disabled on SSDs? Yes, for most systems with SSDs. If the system disk is an SSD, and the SSD performs adequately on random reads and doesn’t have glaring performance issues with random writes or fl…

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