SSD and Win 7

Tephnos · 31 Aug 2011 at 16:54

I've been running a Crucial M4 128GB for a few months now, and when I first set it all up I was told that it's best to move a lot of things you'll use a lot to my traditional hard drive.

To that end, I stuck my User folder on the D drive, can't remember if I did anything else.

Reinstalling Win 7 in a bit so wondering if I needed to do that or if it's all just paranoia and I can just install and go?

Ginger-Menace · 31 Aug 2011 at 16:56

ive moved my documents folder, pics, music and desk top to my hdd, im always moving stuff to and from my desktop helps with the write perfomance of the ssd

Justintime · 31 Aug 2011 at 16:56

Paranoia mostly, have 2 256gb ones in laptops used regurlarly and about 80% full with no slowdowns.. probably due to size limitations as well, unless you have a decent sized (90gb+) sdd i'd keep things like docs and games on a normal hdd.

gord · 31 Aug 2011 at 17:11

For a 128 I wouldn't worry. I'm using mine as the OS Boot and for ISRT, which means using RAID and therefore no TRIM and more writes. I couldn't be much harsher to it if I tried.

I'm not worried. I will leave about 20% free for the garbage collection to work nicely. The M4s use inactivity collection so if you leave your comp alone for 30 mins at some point the drive should clean itself up (without TRIM, you don't need to worry about this with it).