SSD for Vista?

addylad · 25 Mar 2008 at 21:00

Hi,

I was wondering how much space Vista Home Premium takes up as the SSDs are very small at the moment. Also I heard about using flash memory as a boot drive. Is this reliable?

Thanks a lot.

helmutcheese · 25 Mar 2008 at 21:08

A USB Stick is going to be pretty Slow for Sustained Transfers m8.

There was a review weeks ago where the site made a SSD using Mulitple USB Sticks.

addylad · 25 Mar 2008 at 21:20

Lol, thanks.

Any ideas on the size of Vista?

Jokester · 25 Mar 2008 at 21:23

It needs something like 20-25GB or thereabout.

addylad · 25 Mar 2008 at 21:26

Damn lol, thanks a lot.

Looks like a Samsung F1 320 then, but can't find them anywhere???

addylad · 25 Mar 2008 at 21:31

Specifications

General

Device Type
Solid state drive - internal
Width
10 cm
Depth
7 cm
Height
9.5 mm
Weight
48 g
Hard Drive

Form Factor
2.5"
Capacity
32 GB
Interface Type
Serial ATA-150
Features
Shock resistant, Enhanced Error Correction Code, multi-level cell (MLC) flash
Performance

Drive Transfer Rate
13 MBps (external) / 26 MBps (internal)
Reliability

MTBF
1,200,000 hour(s)
Expansion / Connectivity

Interfaces
1 x Serial ATA-150 - 7 pin Serial ATA
Compatible Bays
1 x internal - 2.5"
Miscellaneous

Included Accessories
Screw package
Compliant Standards
CE, BSMI, FCC, RoHS
Manufacturer Warranty

Service & Support
2 years warranty
Service & Support Details
Limited warranty - 2 years
Environmental Parameters

Min Operating Temperature
0 °C
Max Operating Temperature
70 °C
Humidity Range Operating
5 - 95%

fobose · 25 Mar 2008 at 21:51

addylad · 25 Mar 2008 at 22:06

Lol just a spec I found from a competitor.

Clock.It · 25 Mar 2008 at 23:16

Vista 64 ultimate sp1 takes up 12-13gb for the windows folder on the Samsung 32GB ssd i use. Turning off hiberation (which takes about 4gb more), system restore and setting the page file to 1gb instead of 4gb leaves a 32GB ssd with approx 17-18GB free space.

You can use programs like vlite to reduce the vista install size more.

A ssd is slower for transfer rates (unless its the newer 100MB ssd drives) but the access time i only 0.2ms.

A ssd is great if you want a completly silent drive which i wanted, and is still pretty quick in vista with low access times but the newer ssds will be faster than normal hard drives and the disk space will be increased. (hopefully the prices will drop as well)

Wonder if these intel ssd's will be as good as they say :-

http://www.cnet.com/8301-13924_1-9888760-64.html

addylad · 26 Mar 2008 at 12:41

Thanks.

What do you think of them for boot time, and how long does the install take?

ChrisD. · 26 Mar 2008 at 12:59

There are two companies that have the F1 320 in stock. They can be found with a little help of a well known search engine. But I am going to wait as I've never heard of either and they are asking for a bit more then other companies who don't have them in stock.

addylad · 26 Mar 2008 at 14:26

Samsung HD322HJ SpinPoint F1 320GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache OEM Em-HD322HJ.

This looks like the one, for little over £48.

rick827 · 26 Mar 2008 at 14:40

I used vlite to put vista on an 8gb SSD for my HTPC, dont use vista any more but it worked fine

addylad · 26 Mar 2008 at 15:01

Cheers. I suppose the 1TB F1 uses the 334GB platters and is super fast?

rick - cheers, I'll look into it.

Clock.It · 26 Mar 2008 at 20:02

addylad said:
Thanks.

What do you think of them for boot time, and how long does the install take?

Sorry i could'nt get back to you sooner but the vista load time is 35 seconds from starting the pc to getting into windows with 15 seconds of that time used on the motherboard screens before vista loads.

I'm not sure how long the install took but no longer than a normal hard drive.

addylad · 26 Mar 2008 at 21:24

Thanks a lot! Just seems a matter of where to find a decent one lol.

Mud · 26 Mar 2008 at 22:11

Clock.It said:
A ssd is great if you want a completly silent drive which i wanted, and is still pretty quick in vista with low access times but the newer ssds will be faster than normal hard drives and the disk space will be increased. (hopefully the prices will drop as well)

Is yours completely silent? I can't hear mine now (since the X2s), but I could hear faint electrical noises from mine (in the right conditions moving the mouse seemed to make it quietly chirp).

They are very snappy

edit: oh yeah, I limited the recycling bin and system restore to a couple of GBs each and moved the temp folder to another disk, I've got about 10GB spare. Installing from a disk with SP1 slip-streamed really helps.

Clock.It · 26 Mar 2008 at 23:30

Mud said:
Is yours completely silent? I can't hear mine now (since the X2s), but I could hear faint electrical noises from mine (in the right conditions moving the mouse seemed to make it quietly chirp).

They are very snappy

edit: oh yeah, I limited the recycling bin and system restore to a couple of GBs each and moved the temp folder to another disk, I've got about 10GB spare. Installing from a disk with SP1 slip-streamed really helps.

Most computer parts seem to make slight electrical noises so i cant tell if the ssd is making any or not. The silverstone fanless psu i use makes a slight electrical noise if you put your ear up to it, and theres a very slight buzz from my UPS, so a system will never be completly silent but very near silent. The system is definately more silent with the ssd than when i had a Samsung hd501lj suspensed in my case with elastic.

edit : yeah when close up to the pc there is a sight electrical noise when transferring files in windows more so with large files but i can hear the noise of the ups and the 4x400rpm fans in my system more when i'm that close.