Did i jump the gun :/

PhoenixSP

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About 3 months ago i saw the nice promotion overclockers was offering for the Intel 320 SSD's where you got the maglite,mini screwdriver set , game and hdd for a good price (i believe i paid £60 odd before they updated the price for a 40GB version) however 3 months down the line with windows doing its expected bloating i have been struggling to keep the free space on the ssd above 10GB as i believe performance can be affected otherwise.

What im worried was in my good mood of finding a ssd for near the £ per Gb limit i set i chose a cheaper version that i may regret in the future, would i be better off getting a crucial m4 and find another use for the 40Gb ssd, its currently just got the windows os and chrome on it with regular cache cleans and so on.

My motherboard is a Gigabyte Ex58 DS4 which has a 3Gb/s sata connection, would i benefit from upgrading or is it throwing money at a problem and hoping for it to go away ?
 
What is your budget?

If you can afford a 120gb ssd then it ought to permanently solve your capacity problem, but it depends on whether the space seems worth the money to you.

If you do get a second drive, you could use your current SSD as a cache for an HDD.
 
i could justify the crucial but the fact it will be hindered by my motherboards slow connection puts me off , im going to uni soon so trying to control my finances a bit better now.
 
i have a Vertex 30GB and right now, with windows and all my programs installed, it says "15.1GB Free of 29.7GB" - it is perfectly easy to reduce the windows footprint - dont worry, save your money
 
unfortunately panyan windows just keep growing, i started with 15Gb free and now only have 9 free , this is after i clean all temp folders and with all programs i can spare uninstalled.
 
Have you disabled hibernation if you don't need it?

My understanding is that hibernation reserves a chunk of space on the drive. Someone else I told to do this got 9GB back.

Have a look at the size of your page file. You could possibly reduce this.

Have a look at how much space System Restore is using as this can grow to several GB. If you're confident your system is OK you can delete all the old restore points and just create a new one for today.
 
Surveyor said:
Have you disabled hibernation if you don't need it?

My understanding is that hibernation reserves a chunk of space on the drive. Someone else I told to do this got 9GB back.

Have a look at the size of your page file. You could possibly reduce this.

Have a look at how much space System Restore is using as this can grow to several GB. If you're confident your system is OK you can delete all the old restore points and just create a new one for today.
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yep hibernation is disabled , will look into the page file as i haven't yet, i only have one system restore with it set to delete older restores.
 
I have an 80gb SSd and struggle to stop that filling up. (I have disabled hibernation.) Everything wants to install onto your c drive. I noticed I had reached near capacity yesterday and discovered that the green man gaming installer, had installed games and the unpacked game files onto the c drive. Deleting it recovered close to 15gb. This was my fault for not being more careful - but the point is I think an ssd smaller than 80gb would be hard to live with.
 
fortunately i have a 500Gb drive for data and music ,media and a 1Tb drive for games (for some reason its now decided its 223GB :/) but i agree you should be able to set a default save drive instead of having to configure every install.
 
Win7 Ultimate here, with typical apps installed (firefox, winamp, mpc) - 14GB used of a 37GB Raptor.

I said this on XP and still do using 7, there is no reason for 30-40GB not to be enough for an OS drive.

Turn off stuff like system restore, hibernation, reduce size of pagefile or move to another drive, make sure big apps aren't installing to C:\ (unless you want them to for the speed)
 
hmm thats interesting , my windows folder alone is 21Gb in size not sure how to cut that down as i think its mostly needed for windows to run :/

(on a side note does anyone know why a 1TB drive would suddenly shrink to 430Gb ?)
 
Maybe one of the platters has failed. It's likely that a 1gb drive has at least 2 platters. So you'd be 500gb down, as well as some space used in formatting or as a separate partition for system restore etc. (though 70gb seems rather a lot).

Did you lose data?
 
One option you could look at is adding more RAM (depending on how much you have already) and then setting up a ramdisk to use for temp files, page file etc.
 
Suitheist: I hope not its one of my newest drives save my ssd, still have 200GB free though , all my system restore and back up is on a separate 500Gb hdd.I turned off all the IDE drives in the bios today trying to stop it from raid checking during post so will see if it is related.

Hangtime: i currently have 6GB ddr3 tri channel ram at 1600 do you think i would benefit from dedicating having a ram disk ?
 
i decided in the end to get the crucial m4 64GB while it was on offer ,im sure i will find a use for the 40Gb version.
 
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as my motherboard being a gigabyte ex 58 ds4 and having only sata 2 would this hinder the ssd terribly ?

would i be better off buying one of the controllers for a pci slot and using them instead ? i would love to upgrade my mobo to something newer but its far outside my price range.
 
If i do finnaly go down the ssd road i cant see me needing more than a 120 gig.
A few important apps on the ssd and the os of course and everything else on a couple
of raid 0 samsung spinpoints for all my outher needs.
Couple that with a couple of 1gb usb hard drives for storeing media and backups and im done.
Why not get anouther 40 and raid 0 for an 80 ?
 
PhoenixSP said:
as my motherboard being a gigabyte ex 58 ds4 and having only sata 2 would this hinder the ssd terribly ?

would i be better off buying one of the controllers for a pci slot and using them instead ? i would love to upgrade my mobo to something newer but its far outside my price range.
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You'll probably see read speeds of ~270MB/s instead of the up to 550MB/s the drive is capable of with firmware 0009.
 
would the asus sata 3 controller card solvethe problem then ? , sorry but im a bit new to controller cards and not sure if they replace or add to current sata ports etc
 
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