Bought an SSD

giggity · 1 Mar 2011 at 16:15

I bought the Goliath system last November and have just purchased a

Corsair Force 60GB F60 2.5" SATA-ll Solid State Drive (CSSD-F60GB2-BRKT)

At the moment my system uses:

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (ST31000528AS)

I run Windows 7 and just want to install on the SSD to make booting faster etc.

What's the best way of doing this?

giggity · 1 Mar 2011 at 17:56

Do I need to change the bios to ahci?

chaotic_uk · 1 Mar 2011 at 18:22

giggity said:
Do I need to change the bios to ahci?

before i went for a ssd raid setup i had the ahci option for a single drive so yes , i think they are supposed to be set at this as far as i understand

giggity · 1 Mar 2011 at 23:27

OK I literally unplugged the old harddrive and then plugged in the new one using the same cables.

I then activated ahci and installed windows.

I've used crystaldiskmark and it's giving me read speeds of 201.2 and write of 100.1

Is this what I should expect or have I not installed everything correctly?

chaotic_uk · 2 Mar 2011 at 01:35

give it alittle time to learn what it needs to do etc , it should get a little faster i think

Amidar · 3 Mar 2011 at 10:14

giggity said:
OK I literally unplugged the old harddrive and then plugged in the new one using the same cables.

I then activated ahci and installed windows.

I've used crystaldiskmark and it's giving me read speeds of 201.2 and write of 100.1

Is this what I should expect or have I not installed everything correctly?

You need to use ATTO to bench your drive as it uses a sandforce controller.

Paul11 · 3 Mar 2011 at 10:19

chaotic_uk said:
give it alittle time to learn what it needs to do etc , it should get a little faster i think

its not a puppy

Zarf · 3 Mar 2011 at 11:43

giggity said:
OK I literally unplugged the old harddrive and then plugged in the new one using the same cables.

I then activated ahci and installed windows.

I've used crystaldiskmark and it's giving me read speeds of 201.2 and write of 100.1

Is this what I should expect or have I not installed everything correctly?

Sounds about right for a 64GB drive with uncompressable data. Check with ATTO that speeds for compressible data are up near the box specs (285 Read / 270 Write)

chaotic_uk · 3 Mar 2011 at 12:25

Paul11 said:
its not a puppy

from what i have read it should load faster after it learns what it needs to load first etc , not sure if true tbh though lol