Upgrade worth it?
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I replaced my 150gb Velociraptor with a 64gb M225, didn't seem all that much faster but I have just gone back to my 'old' VR while I am messing about clocking/unlocking my AMD 550 and now the VR feels slow.
Pleased I made the change to ssd.
Pleased I made the change to ssd.
Although Im looking at getting one myself I think for £200 would be this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-004-IN&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-004-IN&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910
Hmm, will need to check the old bank balance. I am pondering if I'd be able to get away with a 60GB drive for now, and then should I require more capacity in a few months time, get another and RAID them up. I have plenty of storage so backing that up will not be an issue should one die.
My C:\ is currently at 65GB, page file onto one of my other drives and remove a couple of games and that's well under 60GB. Can system recovery points be moved onto another drive?
My C:\ is currently at 65GB, page file onto one of my other drives and remove a couple of games and that's well under 60GB. Can system recovery points be moved onto another drive?
Ive just bought the OCZ Vertex 60GB (OCUK special) from a 7200 samsung 500GB HDD.
Windows7 load & shutdown times are down to about 20-25 & 5 secs respectively (which is a bit anal!), but the real improvement is in general PC use. It's the timy seek times that make the difference I think. IE for example is instant on initial load - it used to have a noticable delay that I thought was down to my connection. For me its all about those perceptable pauses you get used to as normal in Windows & the fact they dissapear with SSD.
I've installed Windows7Ultimate plus usual apps (plus Visual Studio2008 & SQLServer) to the SSD, along with Steam. Ive got a farily large profile (documents & saved games) of a few gig plus a few games - the big one is Dragon Age & the free space is about 15Gb+ from memory (no pun intended!). I intend to keep it about there.
My video & itunes install is on the old HDD, as are the steam games I'm not currently playing much (moved with the use of symlinks). Once Ive finished with DA:O, I'll move that install over to my old HDD as well, freeing up some space for whatever is my next favourite game (Mass effect2 probably!). This technique allows games to still be played as usual with no re-installs required. It's simpler just to install games to the old HDD, but getting snappioer loads is nice for my favourite games.
Note - DA:O used to take 30secs+ to load some of the bigger maps from scratch (i.e. not cached). On the new drive, it loads the same map in about 5-10secs.
Ive recently upgraded from 8800GT to 5850 (and REALLY happy with it), but I currently consider this upgrate better bang for buck.
In my opinion, 40GB is too small to bother (no headroom for running the odd game off it as well as OS) - 60GB is probably the bare minimum IMO & arounf £150 is the right price point for me.
IF SSDs get cheaper in another year, I will move the drive to my netbook & get a 100GB+ SSD drive for my desktop, so I don't have to do as much active file management. In my opinion, the admin however IS worth the benefit at this price point.
Dan
Windows7 load & shutdown times are down to about 20-25 & 5 secs respectively (which is a bit anal!), but the real improvement is in general PC use. It's the timy seek times that make the difference I think. IE for example is instant on initial load - it used to have a noticable delay that I thought was down to my connection. For me its all about those perceptable pauses you get used to as normal in Windows & the fact they dissapear with SSD.
I've installed Windows7Ultimate plus usual apps (plus Visual Studio2008 & SQLServer) to the SSD, along with Steam. Ive got a farily large profile (documents & saved games) of a few gig plus a few games - the big one is Dragon Age & the free space is about 15Gb+ from memory (no pun intended!). I intend to keep it about there.
My video & itunes install is on the old HDD, as are the steam games I'm not currently playing much (moved with the use of symlinks). Once Ive finished with DA:O, I'll move that install over to my old HDD as well, freeing up some space for whatever is my next favourite game (Mass effect2 probably!). This technique allows games to still be played as usual with no re-installs required. It's simpler just to install games to the old HDD, but getting snappioer loads is nice for my favourite games.
Note - DA:O used to take 30secs+ to load some of the bigger maps from scratch (i.e. not cached). On the new drive, it loads the same map in about 5-10secs.
Ive recently upgraded from 8800GT to 5850 (and REALLY happy with it), but I currently consider this upgrate better bang for buck.
In my opinion, 40GB is too small to bother (no headroom for running the odd game off it as well as OS) - 60GB is probably the bare minimum IMO & arounf £150 is the right price point for me.
IF SSDs get cheaper in another year, I will move the drive to my netbook & get a 100GB+ SSD drive for my desktop, so I don't have to do as much active file management. In my opinion, the admin however IS worth the benefit at this price point.
Dan
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