Hi, I'm upgrading to Ivy bridge the second the chips come out. In the meantime I'm stuck on my Asus p5b Deluxe.
My Intel 520 SSD has just arrived (taking advantage of that Intel cashback offer) and I'm SO TEMPTED just to install it now and see how everything runs on my SATA2 Asus to tide me over for the next 2 or 3 weeks.
I realise I will have to enable ahci before proceeding, but is there anything else I need to know?
I also heard SSD's and have a life expectancy on number of writes to each segment. Would a full (temporary and unnecessary) windows and software install take much of a toll on it?
I also heard about performance over time affecting SSD's. Is this (similar to mechanical hard drives and fragging.... ) solved by just wiping the drive and copying stuff over again? Ie. When my ivy bridge arrives, if i just wipe my C drive (the ssd) and reinstall windows/apps, will I get day 1 performance again?
I am also reading about GFS vs MBR - newer motherboards support the new GFS disk initialisation... Do all disks still come with MBR by default? If they do I will probably just stick with it. But is there ANY benefit of using GFD instead for my C drive (ie a smaller ssd - not for data). I understand it's essential for larger than 2tb partitions, but does that mean drives smaller than that will still explicitly NOT use GFS?
Thanks for your time.
My Intel 520 SSD has just arrived (taking advantage of that Intel cashback offer) and I'm SO TEMPTED just to install it now and see how everything runs on my SATA2 Asus to tide me over for the next 2 or 3 weeks.
I realise I will have to enable ahci before proceeding, but is there anything else I need to know?
I also heard SSD's and have a life expectancy on number of writes to each segment. Would a full (temporary and unnecessary) windows and software install take much of a toll on it?
I also heard about performance over time affecting SSD's. Is this (similar to mechanical hard drives and fragging.... ) solved by just wiping the drive and copying stuff over again? Ie. When my ivy bridge arrives, if i just wipe my C drive (the ssd) and reinstall windows/apps, will I get day 1 performance again?
I am also reading about GFS vs MBR - newer motherboards support the new GFS disk initialisation... Do all disks still come with MBR by default? If they do I will probably just stick with it. But is there ANY benefit of using GFD instead for my C drive (ie a smaller ssd - not for data). I understand it's essential for larger than 2tb partitions, but does that mean drives smaller than that will still explicitly NOT use GFS?
Thanks for your time.