HDD & SSD question.

[Dean B]

I've had my system now a couple of months and have a few questions for you more knowledgeable folks.

If I have a WD 6BGsec HDD should it be plugged into the 6GB slot on the Asus PB67 motherboard? Right now it's plugged into the SATA3G_5 slot. The system boots from a OCZ SSD, plugged into SATA3G_6.

The SSD is only 60GB. It is already 50% full despite having no applications installed to it. The WD 500GB still has 332GB free. At this rate the C: drive will be full before the main HD is anywhere near capacity. In the old days of IDE, drives used to seriously drop off performance wise when more than 1/2 full, particularly if it was the boot drive. Does this apply to SSD's?

Can I trade my 60GB SSD in for a larger one?

Finally, why in the heck won't this PC wake up from Sleep? It sounds like the system wakes but not the monitor. Is there a fix for it?

Thanks.

-Dean

 

[Dean B]

Nobody have any ideas?

-Dean

 

[panyan]

If I have a WD 6BGsec HDD should it be plugged into the 6GB slot on the Asus PB67 motherboard? Right now it's plugged into the SATA3G_5 slot. The system boots from a OCZ SSD, plugged into SATA3G_6.

it doesnt matter, i doubt it saturates sata 2 speeds, so either sata2/3 is sufficient

The SSD is only 60GB. It is already 50% full despite having no applications installed to it. The WD 500GB still has 332GB free. At this rate the C: drive will be full before the main HD is anywhere near capacity. In the old days of IDE, drives used to seriously drop off performance wise when more than 1/2 full, particularly if it was the boot drive. Does this apply to SSD's?

i doubt it, there are people on here with 1% free space on their ssd and still using it fine. with hdd's i always suggest leaving at least 10% free

Can I trade my 60GB SSD in for a larger one?

not unless it is still within the refund period, or find someone to swap with

Finally, why in the heck won't this PC wake up from Sleep? It sounds like the system wakes but not the monitor. Is there a fix for it?

turn the montior off and then on again...

Thanks.

no problem

 

[ianh]

Your SSD will probably have the Page File and Hibernation file on it adding upto around 2x the size of your RAM (ie if you've got 4GB or RAM those files will total 8GB roughly). If you move the Page file to the HDD (or disable it if you've 8GB or over- bit of a debate about that TBH) and disable the Hibernation (via command prompt by typing powercfg.exe /hibernate off) you'll free up more space.

As to Sleep, I hate it! In the power options make sure the Monitor is set to Never Switch Off. Psersonally while I realise that everyone'e different I find Sleep can cause soooo many issues. Just let it Shutdown for the extra 30secs it takes to reboot on a SSD.

Hope that helps.

 

[Dean B]

Thanks for your replies.

Are you 100% sure on your first reply? I would have thought if a mobo provides two different types of slots, then it would make sense to plug the fastest drive into, what appears to be from its name, the fastest transfer slot?

Switching the monitor on and off won't cure it. I'm guessing the problem lies with the mobos bios not waking the graphics adapter port up. I can hear the HDDs whirring away.

I like to use the Sleep function a lot. Reason being my machines are at the end of my long lounge. I like to be able to watch telly and eat in piece. As I've said, this smells to me like a mobo issue. Has this not been addressed in a BIOS update I wonder. With the popularity of the PB67 I'm sure there must be a lot of others who've asked the same question.

 

[AbsenceJam]

HDD's don't get slower as they get full, you might get fragmentation and you will have files toward the end of the drive which is slower, or be using files across more of the drive so the heads move about more but that's just how things are. Whether empty or not your drive performs or the same.

 

[Boss_man]

go to bios and set power on pcie to enable , that should sort the sleep prob if you have that option .

 

[Admetos]

Re moving page file to HDD. I would not disable it, nor move to HDD. You won't notice at first boot, however eventually page file will be used and SSD is best place for this.

If you move page file to HDD you're just loosing some of the advantage of SSD.

 

[Surveyor]

Are you 100% sure on your first reply? I would have thought if a mobo provides two different types of slots, then it would make sense to plug the fastest drive into, what appears to be from its name, the fastest transfer slot?

Your SSD should be plugged into a SATA3 6Gbps port as it is the only drive which may be fast enough to take advantage of it.

There's no advantage to plugging a HDD into a SATA3 6Gbps port.

A good mechanical HDD will have a read speed of around 125MB/s (which is 1Gbps). It can't go any faster than that no matter what SATA port you plug it into.

 

[skanky]

go to bios and set power on pcie to enable , that should sort the sleep prob if you have that option .

i recently had sleep wake up problems (w7 machine would whir into life, on but nothing to video seemingly) and googled for a answer and basically this was the fix.

 

[Dean B]

Your SSD should be plugged into a SATA3 6Gbps port as it is the only drive which may be fast enough to take advantage of it.

Well, it's not as the pic below shows.

There's no advantage to plugging a HDD into a SATA3 6Gbps port.

So a 6GBps HDD doesn't benefit from being plugged into 6GBps port?

This image shows how the OC Tech set my machine up -

-Dean

 

[timciren]

I've had my system now a couple of months and have a few questions for you more knowledgeable folks.

If I have a WD 6BGsec HDD should it be plugged into the 6GB slot on the Asus PB67 motherboard? Right now it's plugged into the SATA3G_5 slot. The system boots from a OCZ SSD, plugged into SATA3G_6.

If it is a 6GBs drive then plug it into other 6GB sata port. It will still be a great speed improvement over mechanical HDD even if it is 3GBs. Try running AS SSD

The SSD is only 60GB. It is already 50% full despite having no applications installed to it. The WD 500GB still has 332GB free. At this rate the C: drive will be full before the main HD is anywhere near capacity. In the old days of IDE, drives used to seriously drop off performance wise when more than 1/2 full, particularly if it was the boot drive. Does this apply to SSD's?

60GB is fine for w7

Can I trade my 60GB SSD in for a larger one?

cheaper to keep it eith your OS on and buy another when u can afford it


Finally, why in the heck won't this PC wake up from Sleep? It sounds like the system wakes but not the monitor. Is there a fix for it?
try fix above

Thanks.

-Dean

 

[Dean B]

Power on PCIE enabled.

No monitor wakeup.