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Given the number of ssd threads cropping up I thought it might help to do a simple thread explaining the best way to get your money’s worth from a storage setup involving an ssd.
This is just my opinion.
OCZ 60gb vertex 2- Put your os on here, put your apps on here. You do not need to get anal about what is written to the drive. You just don’t. 90% of your hard drive accesses will hit this drive. You will be getting true ssd performance for nearly all your everyday tasks. Find me someone who has had a functional ssd wear out on them and we can talk minimising writes. Find me an ssd user whose driver works properly who doesn’t think it was worth it and we can have the overpriced discussion...
Samsing 1tb f3- this supports your os drive- if you need a large partition for your steam folder or games, set this as the first partition in disk manager. Make it as small as possible; learn about short stroking to understand why I say this. Partition the rest and use it as your storage drive, if you torrent set your torrents to save onto this partition. This drive will get off your large data and deal with individual games while your ssd does every day os tasks; meaning your hd only has to focus on your game.
Cost; £140; results…barring getting sata III, spending several hundred pounds, risking raid and various other things, there is nothing out there that is better value. You can image your os drive onto the f3 and if the worst happens- system restore.
To be clear- I got myself an ocz for chrimbo, and relegated my intel 80gb to a steam drive. Now- every time I need something off the f3 drive, it has to start up and spin up. I’m not knocking it- just understand that you only need 60gb for 95% of your usage and even the other 5% really doesn’t get ssd benefit. The intel leaves me agreeing with the ssd sceptics- i just dont need it!
This is just my opinion.
OCZ 60gb vertex 2- Put your os on here, put your apps on here. You do not need to get anal about what is written to the drive. You just don’t. 90% of your hard drive accesses will hit this drive. You will be getting true ssd performance for nearly all your everyday tasks. Find me someone who has had a functional ssd wear out on them and we can talk minimising writes. Find me an ssd user whose driver works properly who doesn’t think it was worth it and we can have the overpriced discussion...
Samsing 1tb f3- this supports your os drive- if you need a large partition for your steam folder or games, set this as the first partition in disk manager. Make it as small as possible; learn about short stroking to understand why I say this. Partition the rest and use it as your storage drive, if you torrent set your torrents to save onto this partition. This drive will get off your large data and deal with individual games while your ssd does every day os tasks; meaning your hd only has to focus on your game.
Cost; £140; results…barring getting sata III, spending several hundred pounds, risking raid and various other things, there is nothing out there that is better value. You can image your os drive onto the f3 and if the worst happens- system restore.
To be clear- I got myself an ocz for chrimbo, and relegated my intel 80gb to a steam drive. Now- every time I need something off the f3 drive, it has to start up and spin up. I’m not knocking it- just understand that you only need 60gb for 95% of your usage and even the other 5% really doesn’t get ssd benefit. The intel leaves me agreeing with the ssd sceptics- i just dont need it!