OS on SSD

leeh14 · 17 Oct 2010 at 18:21

Hi,

I am wondering if it is wroth buying a SSD for my OS! is that better that buying a standard hard drive? Will I see improvements?

Thoughts?

Lee

RJC · 17 Oct 2010 at 18:27

Yes

Went from a Samsung F1 320gb to a OCZ 60gb drive last month and not looked back

bushy24 · 17 Oct 2010 at 18:28

you would see a mass improvement if you was to install your os on an ssd, i would recomned os on an ssd and a normal hdd for programs,music data ect

deusexlumina · 17 Oct 2010 at 18:33

yeah ssd is amazing for OS. Honestly it's worth the money, the speed is simply incredible. Using my MBP seems sluggish in comparison.

alan whitaker · 17 Oct 2010 at 18:35

Hi All, I have just put a 120GB SSD OCZ in as a boot drive and it is worth the cost.

Alan

farmer · 17 Oct 2010 at 18:42

Agree with all the above, I bought an OCZ Vertex 2E 60Gb SSD a few weeks back and it brought my boot times right down!

Windows is usable as soon as you are onto the desktop; you dont have to continue to wait for it to load services and other startup programs before you can use the pc.

Great purchase.

Greboth · 17 Oct 2010 at 19:09

Agree totally with above, SSD's for OS is great. Just look at the windows boot time thread, all those running SSD's are so quick. Also as soon as you are at the desktop everything is running already. I don't think I could go back to an OS on a HDD now.

Essexraptor · 17 Oct 2010 at 19:15

How about click it and it opens before you blink performance!

leeh14 · 18 Oct 2010 at 16:49

Wicked,

Looks like i will be buying a SSD! Thought that it would help with load/boot times ! Can't wait to get windows 7 on one YAY!

coldfused · 18 Oct 2010 at 16:58

The only thing I hate is that it takes such a long time for the BIOS to start and load Windows. Once thats done, its amazingly quick! 14 seconds to load Windows and all its programs.

Narj · 18 Oct 2010 at 17:01

The annoying thing about having a smaller boot drive is that many games these days seem to put saves on C:\ somewhere. I'm sure I tried moving my home dir through control panel at some point in the past but it made no difference... :S Unless I was just being retarded and did it wrong.

I'm toying with going for 2 SSDs, one OS and another for games that do tonnes of HDD reading (area loading etc). Hard to justify the cost with Christmas approaching, though.

Wynthorpe · 18 Oct 2010 at 17:06

coldfused said:
The only thing I hate is that it takes such a long time for the BIOS to start and load Windows. Once thats done, its amazingly quick! 14 seconds to load Windows and all its programs.

I seem to find X58 boards take a LOOONG time to load bios and start windows.

Greboth · 18 Oct 2010 at 17:13

Agree about bios,i dont think ssds make that difference to bios but they do once windows has got going.

@Pianobasher: You could get 2 (or 1 bigger drive as i think would be cheaper.). In terms of the saves for games,if you can find them could you not use a directory link (not called this but name escapes me at the moment) where it anything that is saved in that folder is actuallg saved in another folder. It was being done with the f1 2010 replay file and im sure someone who can remember will post its correct name.

edit: symbolic link is what ifs called. Would that not sort it out as the file shows up on ssd but is actually stored on another drive e.g. your normal hdd.