Do you use MFT? Post here and tell us your experience with it.

[Tony]

MFT look to have a new driver out that looks to be upto 25% faster than the old one.

Do you use MFT on your system?

What tweaks have you employed..IE which folders have you moved over?

How did MFT transform your system...did you notice the system faster?

Let us know your feelings about MFT overall.

[Converterduck]

Tony asked me to run an Iometer benchmark with a test file he prepared and is posted here. I have run the test that Tony put together on the Operating system partition and on the MFT partition.

I have applied all the tweaks (except SteadyState) from this forum.

Easyco had yesterday published their new version of MFT in their download section, but have removed it temporarily again because they want to update the user documentation before. The partition scheme has changed: the MFT volume appears now like a standard NTFS volume (see attached screen copy of Vista Disk Manager).

Easyco told me that they will publish the version 0.989 anytime soon on their server. You can get a 30 day demo licence from this link if you want to test it yourself. To upgrade from Version 0.981 to 0.989 you will have to delete the existing MFT partition(s). These then become free space on the drive, and you then build partitions from the drive layout tab. Also, MFT requires a change of partitions. So I recommend you wait with your tests until 0.989 becomes available for public download.

It still does not yet support a boot volume, but that is no real issue as you can create a second partition and configure that one as a MFT volume. As you can see from attached JPEG, I have a C: partition for the Vista operating system and programs and a D: partition with a MFT volume for my data. I have placed the following stuff onto the MFT volume: all my data, especially Outlook 2008 PST and OST files, Database files, Swap File, VMware virtual machines, browser caches and Temp directories. I also moved system directories that contain data that is frequently written to, such as the application data directory C:\Users\converterduck\AppData\Roaming, to the MFT volume. There are many tools that help you moving these directories. I am using EnhanceMyVista Pro from SeriousBit.

I built the MFT volume with a KB Write Block Size of 8192, which yields better performance in my tests than the Easyco recommendation of 16384. Easyco told me that their original recommendation for the OCZ Core series was based on their tests with V1. So they admitted that this recommendation could change because the V2 SSD's are faster.


Judge for yourself from the attached Iometer benchmark results. My conclusion is:
ALL YOU NEED IS MFT and you will be in SSD performance heaven.

No tuning can match the performance gains you experience with MFT. In addition MFT dramatically extends the life span of your MLC SSD drive.

[BryanCelyn]

Here's the results of my iometer tests. I've applied most of the "easy" tweaks (prefetch, hibernate, system restore), but nothing too exotic. I've also moved the Docs and Settings directory to the D: drive. I'm running all of my normal software, including Outlook 2007, and don't have ANY stuttering issues.

Dell Latitude D630
Drive: OCZ Core 2 - 120gb
2gb ram
nvidia Quadro NVS 135m
Windows XP Pro 32bit - SP2

C: drive is NTFS
D: drive is MFT

[pol2]

When I got my OCZ Core (V1) I pre-emtively disabled AHCI and repaired windows as I had heard AHCI (I have Intel ICH9) can be problematic. Perhaps this is why I can't get MFT to work? I created a new small logical partition of about 8GB size and NTFS formatted it. MFT does not see anything available to install MFT on Thanks for any help!

[s99gi]

if you use the current release 989a please note that the partition will be created in the MFT menu by self. So you need free space without partition before you start to setup a MFT. You will create in the MFT routine a new partition and MFT will format it...

I don't know if this help. Otherwise don't hesitate to contact support of easyco directly

[pol2]

Yes the solution is to not create a partition but to leave it as unallocated and let MFT create the partition.

I have also moved my Program Files to the MFT partition (I will never again do this what a (#*)(*'n mess even manually working through registry and with various search/replace tools.)

The only think I am not too sure about. I would like to know if I can use 3rd party partition tools to "fix" the partition junk that's now leftover.

I'll post an update on performance.

[k_man]

I gave it a shot on my system.

Didn't go too well.
I was half expecting it though, WinXP 64Bit and all.

It worked for a few boots, then crashed the system.
I might just wait till they can get it going on the boot partition.

[therookie]

If you align your partition (see the sticky guide) you will both improve SteadyState performance by approx 10% as well as shorten the time it takes to commit changes at boot in SteadyState.

[yantei]

yes, I know - my partition is properly aligned
time needed for committing changes depends on how much data has been written to secured partition

I'm downloading torrents to the SteadyState protected partition, so there are many changes to comit after few hours of system uptime...

BTW - where is my previous post?

[D111]

BTW - where is my previous post?

This is an official OCZ forum and there is no support for Transcend SSDs.

[yantei]

sorry about that, my mistake - I shouldn't have mentioned about my drive's manufacturer

this is the best SSD themed forum on the web, I thought that my experience with MFT is valuable and worth posting here

[D111]

I am well aware that this is the hottest place dealing with consumer SSDs, but you do understand that we cannot support everyone's SSDs.

Appreciate you sharing your expertise on other drives here, but the rules are that we can only respond or permit responses to issues dealing specifically with OCZ SSDs.

You will be amused as to how many support requests we get for SSDs made by a big manufacturer that gets apparently good reviews, but have all sorts of issues in real life....

I have a pretty good idea what those issues are... and probably can solve them easily.

But that is stretching myself a bit thin.

[eva2000]

Just tried latest MFT trial on my 4x32GB OCZ Core V1 Raid 0 array and getting crazy numbers in ATTO and HDTune of 600-900+MB/s and 6,000-7,000MB/s respectively LOL

[jeff_rys]

Eva,

how did you get your i920 to work at 4600+ mhz speed with air cooling?

thanks

Jeff

[eva2000]

shove some vcore volts up it and found sweet spot for vdimm to uncore (cpu vtt) voltage balance