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Solid State Drives (SSD's) explained
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ooo lookie what was waiting for me on my desk at work when i come in this morning:
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free haribos! i need to order some now. 
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free haribos! i need to order some now.
There were about 20 packets of haribos, that ones just for show
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lol.
ooo lookie what was waiting for me on my desk at work when i come in this morning:
RAID.
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RAID.
They're actually being split into two 4 drive RAID6 arrays for an experiment.
Sadly not as interesting as me taking them home and playing games on them 
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Generally speeds up day to day tasks, as well as boot up speed. Anything you install onto the SSD will boot faster as well of course.
I bought this
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-003-SD&groupid=1657&catid=2101&subcat=2103
I read the thread but all the different software and different controllers confused me.
I will be installing Win 7 Ultimate to it and using it as my main C drive. Is there anything I should do to my laptop before it arrives, and do I have to do firmware upgrades or anything like that?
Should I also install programs (i.e. MS Office) on it? Where would music files be better stored as I have the option of either the SSD or HDD?
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-003-SD&groupid=1657&catid=2101&subcat=2103
I read the thread but all the different software and different controllers confused me.
I will be installing Win 7 Ultimate to it and using it as my main C drive. Is there anything I should do to my laptop before it arrives, and do I have to do firmware upgrades or anything like that?
Should I also install programs (i.e. MS Office) on it? Where would music files be better stored as I have the option of either the SSD or HDD?
SSD has lifespan of how many writes it can do. Store music on a mechanical drive. Install programs on it. Put pagefile on mechanical. Disable certain windows tasks that arent needed once you have an SSD.
Take a look at this guide, it says vista but it's basically the same:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?47212-Vista-32-64-SSD-Windows-Registry-tweaks
Take a look at this guide, it says vista but it's basically the same:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?47212-Vista-32-64-SSD-Windows-Registry-tweaks
You want the SSD to speed up operating system, I'd install all my programs on there, and maybe a couple of games too if you want them to load faster. I wouldn't really download things onto mine personally. They are about speed at the moment, not space.
Thanks for this link, how much of the stuff is relevant to Win7? The OP says stuff about TRIM and Win7 does it, is there other things Win7 has set up to deal with SSDs? According to the spec my SSD can be fully written over 665 times and I don't think I'll ever manage that.
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Google is your best friend for thing like this. I googled Windows 7 SSD Guide :http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds
I don't know that much about the subject myself, but I would do some research if I were you to optimize everything to suit your own needs.
I don't know that much about the subject myself, but I would do some research if I were you to optimize everything to suit your own needs.
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Not really, might be a tad slower apart from the mb/sec throughoutput. RAID 0 speeds up spindle drives due to the mechanical nature of seeking and shortening it, SSDs don't have that issue.
New to SSD's looking for advice!
Contemplating trying the windows 8 trial download, I thought getting an SSD and installing it on there, whilst keeping my existing and working Windows 7 setup on existing HDD.
I have a Gigabyte GA 965P DS3 with 4GB of DDR2 memory and an intel Core 2 duo E6600 2.4 Ghz.
Would I be able to change the bios to boot from the SSD first to run windows 8, but still run other progs such as Outlook, ITunes etc, without having to re-install all of them on the SSD.
I just wanted to try both windows 8 and an SSD to see whether my printer scanner etc would work or whether I need to replace those as well!
Contemplating trying the windows 8 trial download, I thought getting an SSD and installing it on there, whilst keeping my existing and working Windows 7 setup on existing HDD.
I have a Gigabyte GA 965P DS3 with 4GB of DDR2 memory and an intel Core 2 duo E6600 2.4 Ghz.
Would I be able to change the bios to boot from the SSD first to run windows 8, but still run other progs such as Outlook, ITunes etc, without having to re-install all of them on the SSD.
I just wanted to try both windows 8 and an SSD to see whether my printer scanner etc would work or whether I need to replace those as well!
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Not bad. Most websites are a bit confusing when it comes explaining SSDs and are too much of a read.
This is fairly short and straight to the point.
This is fairly short and straight to the point.
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Seeing as 8 x 240GB Agility 3s just weren't enough....
That's 8 x 512GB OCZ Vertex 4s
That's 8 x 512GB OCZ Vertex 4s