Spec an SSD for £85?

Sneakze

Sneakze

Sneakze

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Howdy all, decided it's time to pick up an SSD as I'd prefer the faster boot ups etc. Willing to spend up to £85, I have a M5A78L-M/USB3 it only has 6 3Gb/s ports so I wasn't 100% sure about compatibility when it came to deciding which one to choose! :)

I've seen a OCZ Vertex 2E Bigfoot 180GB 3.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive for £83.99 (preorder), it seems great value considering its 180gb but I've read on forums that they go corrupt after a couple of months?




Cheers, Carl.
 
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Are the Samsung and Crucial SSDs backwards compatible with 3Gb/s ports?

(edit)Ok cheers, I'm deciding on that Sandisk or the Samsung 840 basic, much difference between the two?
 
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I have had the Sandisk extreme for quite a while and no problems. It was used on my old pc with sata 2 and it was a vast improvement.
 
Sneakze said:
Are the Samsung and Crucial SSDs backwards compatible with 3Gb/s ports?

(edit)Ok cheers, I'm deciding on that Sandisk or the Samsung 840 basic, much difference between the two?
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All SSDs are to my knowledge. In fact 6GB/s will probably still work on a sata1 port so don't worry too much about that, will just run at reduced speeds.
 
Hi guys recieved the SSD today, Installed Windows (heat of the moment :P) and when it came to it one thing popped up that I forgot amongst all things. Enabling AHCI which I didn't do before installation. I've seen you can do it through the registry, looked in the Bios and its running in IDE along my other 2 mechnical drives. I've been getting 45seconds from Restart to Desktop just thinking if it would be much faster with AHCI enabled? When enabling AHCI through my Bios it's also going to apply it to SATA1-4 which my two mechnical drives are plugged into, will this effect them at all if switched to AHCI mode for my SSD?
My mobo is a M5A78L-M/USB3

Cheers Sneak.
 
Mechanical drive won't care if it's on AHCI or IDE-compatible, but an SSD will. It certainly won't hurt your boot times, and it will be better in the long run as the SSD will have TRIM enabled with AHCI switched on.

Just remember to change the registry setting (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SYSTEM / CurrentControlset / Services / msahci to 0), then reboot and make sure you change IDE to AHCI in the BIOS on that reboot. If you miss and Windows restarts you'll need to change the registry entry again or it'll blue screen when you do change it next boot. :)
 
Ok cheers, just changed it to 0 rebooted, changed to AHCI then once logging back into Windows it was installing drivers? and then reboot again :) guessing its in AHCI mode now?

Cheers for the help btw much appreciated! :)

[edit]Looks like it worked, Just did a raiting again on windows and the disk transfer rate went up to 7.7 from 7.3 Cheers xD
 
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