Solid State v Velociraptor ????

mrix

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Hello all, at this moment in time I have a 300gb Velociraptor hard drive and was wondering if I upgraded to a solid state drive will I notice much difference in speed? PC load times? better in games ?
As they a still pricey I was thinking about purchasing a 120gb SSD.
If I am likely to notice a fair difference what would be one of the best 120gb drives to buy????
cheers all
mrix
 
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Just ordered mine and the caddie :)

Reading around it appears I might have to tweak these drives to run better in Windows 7 ?

Any useful pointers at all with installing / tweaking etc.

Cheers all
mrix
 
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Hi there reading though the downloadable firmware manual it explains something about being better if the operating system is installed in AHCI Mode :confused:
Has anyone done this? is it really important ? can it make a difference?
Cheers all
mrix
 
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Hi all, I was reading somewhere that Solid state hard drives do not need to be defraged ???? is that right:confused:

Cheers
mrix
 
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They will degrade over time though if you don't have TRIM support.
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My drive has trim support :)
Is this something I have to enable somewhere in windows? or it just works auto ?

cheers
mrix
 
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Well I have had the drive a few days and very happy with it :)
I basically got the SSD for windows 7 only and my steam folder and just a few important programs.
Everything else goes on my velociraptor 300gb ;)
Also made a quick video to give people an idea of what these drives are like if you decide to purchase one :)
Also getting a Windows Experience of 7.5 on the SSD Drive! as opposed to my velociraptor raptor which was just 5.9

 
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formatting ?

Hi all, I think I may of messed up :(

Basically I installed the vertex limited edition 100gb which went totally fine with windows 7... on installing windows 7 I did not get the option to format the disk as it was greyed out:confused:
It did allow me to install windows without a problem though:confused:
I have now everything installed and find out you are meant to format these disks right????

But normally if a disk is not formatted you cant installed windows?

Everything works fine and I have a windows experience of 7.5.

Cant I miss the format side of things?

cheers all
mrix
 
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It's fine, it would've formatted the partition during installation. You can't use an unformatted disk so you've got nothing to worry about
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Blimey that`s a relief as I have just taken a couple of days getting my system back up to shape.

That`s great news :)

Cheers and thanks
mrix
 
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