SSD installation experiences

rhiridflaidd

rhiridflaidd

rhiridflaidd

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I installed a 120GB vertex 2e, and it all went very smoothly.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?79857-THE-BASIC-GUIDE-amp-FAQ-ABC-for-OCZ-SSD

Takes some reading, but is very valuable.

THe key things I did was to disable indexing.

Then I symlinked Steam

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1683647

And then for good measute I symlinked c:\users so that the churn of rubbish files that gets dumped in Users get churned on my raptor and doesn't clutter and mess my SSD.

http://lifehacker.com/5467758/move-the-users-directory-in-windows-7

I'm more comfortable with my documents and all of that being on traditional media.

I moved my paging file too, for now. I'm not sure if that's sensible or not.

Is there anything else I need to be doing to keep things smooth and fast?
 
Thanks for the steam (idiots guide) link. Ive just bought an OCZ Vertex 2 120GB and was sitting here wondering how the hell im gonna transfer all my ****!!
 
No problem (Rhi is me by the way!)

Symlinking is well established and there are some GUI's out there that does the steam symlinking. But personally, when it comes to messing with the low level operation of my PC I prefer to do it myself. But the trick of starting a download, pausing, copying (or in this instance symlinking) then veryfying is an useful one and not one I've seen discussed much.

It's what we used in the days of UT3 to save downloading the whole game again when activating on Steam, in the days of sparse bandwidth.
 
I got the Vertex 2E for Christmas from the wife so have been fiddling with the PC to get it back to normal again over the last few days.

I don't have many Steam games at the moment but when I do I'll have to remember to so that trick. All of our documents are on the SSD and backing up to the server (only 500mb) so I'll have a copy should the SSD go twitchy on me.

At the moment I have only the following installed as far as big apps go. There are the usual little ones (ccleaner, itunes, etc) installed too.

Win7 Home
Mass Effect
Photoshop CS5
Office '07

I have 75GB free at the moment but apart from games I have nothing else to put on. And those I tend to only install once I want to play them (I find having them all installed means I can never make my mind up).

I assume you also checked that defrag was off for your drive and that TRIM was enabled? It should do it automatically but I thought it wise to check anyway.

Far more importantly i've just put CorsixTH on so I can play some 1080 Theme Hospital!
 
rhiridflaidd said:
THe key things I did was to disable indexing.
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Why was that the key thing? I disabled it after reading what you said but have since put it back on as the majority of what I've read says to leave it on. I just hope I haven't done any damage by disabling it in the first place. Did you disable it just on the C Drive or all files and folders, I did the latter?

RoEy
 
The key things I did, is what I said

not - these are the key thing that everybody must do.
:(

What I dod was what the OCZ gurus told me to do, which is this.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...BC-for-OCZ-SSD&p=567582&viewfull=1#post567582


I haven't looked into it - I just took their advice at face value. But since only key operating system files, games and apps are on my SSD, there is nothing there that needs indexing.

What I now need to work out is how to allow indexing of my symlinked Users folder......
 
So will I be ok just turning indexing back on? Or can it mess things up once disabled?
 
Pagefiles

My pagefile will go onto the SSD on reading all of this.

But when I do this it seems that the recomendation from OCZ is not to allow a system managed pagefile but to set up a single file.

The recomendation normally is 2.5x the size of your memory sticks.
 
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