SSD Boot Drive

simbady

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Hi i have been thinking about a SSD for a while to speed my pc up at bit. I was wondering if using a SSD as a boot drive maybe 64GB and using my Samsung Spinpoint 1TB for everything elce, would i see good performance increase?

If so which ssd would you recommend?
 
Yeah was only looking for single drive for now... and what the perfoemace boost like i would guess much more responsive vista and quicker boot up time.
 
simbady said:
Yeah was only looking for single drive for now... and what the perfoemace boost like i would guess much more responsive vista and quicker boot up time.
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Well I boot to a fully useable state in around 30 seconds on my SSD's, I believe the Vertex would startup a few seconds faster eitherway they're much much faster than my old hdd's which took a full minute longer to boot. You'll just notice apps and stuff just launch much faster ALSO..

I don't know if anybody else has this experience, but I find just navigating windows to be much more snappier.. Even navigating my old HDD's is now faster o_O. I'm not really sure how that works, maybe the SSD tweaker tool helped as well.
 
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simbady said:
Maybe because there is less data on them due to no O/S?
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They were almost full like about 20Gb free out of 512Gb and still fast to navigate.. And it had my old OS install on it.. Infact, I think I've still got my OLD OS and programmes installed on that drive, which I need to delete.
 
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Is 60Gb more than enough for a boot drive think i could get away with a 30Gb?
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Really depends TBH. I would say a minimum of 60Gb if your using Vista, as it tends to gobble about 10-15Gb on its own. And with MLC drives for optimal performance you want to really not fill it more then 3/4's. Which is why I opted for 120Gb.

It really depends what apps you want to install onto the drive too. I've got all of my apps (10Gb) and a few games (33Gb) installed onto my SSD and have just under 60Gb free.

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Well i found the site for a Sammy SSD £115 but it doesnt say the speed they run at any ideas?
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They run at 100/80 read/write - You can't really just judge them based on sequential read/write speed though. It's the almost 0 access latency that makes them so fast.
 
get either 1 64GB sammy for £116 or 2 for £232 and raid them together, you can't go wrong :)
but you'll have to use google to track them down. Personally i would say that (in order to install some games aswell) 64GB should be the minimum regardless of OS but thats me, i like having some room to manouver in but you can get away with 32GB the trouble is that for a 32GB OCZ drive, for around £40 more, you can get a 64GB samsung with just as good if not better performance than a 32GB competitor.
 
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I think i will go for 1 sammy for now and maybe raid later (is onboard raid controller ok or get a pci one?) i will just install vista and a few small apps and put music and games ect. on HDD.
 
just use you're motherboards raid settings and they should be fine. You'll probably need a floppy disk drive to install raid drivers if you intend to install XP though (or a slipstreamed version of XP if you preferre to use Nlite), otherwise Vista should go on just fine.
 
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