Twinkie 13 Posted July 25, 2014 Member ID: 3003 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 26 Topic Count: 36 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 437 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 370 Achievement Points: 3716 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/21/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 01:18 PM Birthday: 03/17/1979 Device: Windows Posted July 25, 2014 Well iam toying with the idea of getting a SSD drive to use as my boot drive. I run win 7 64bit and now I have a 2tb boot drive with a 1tb as backup. Regardless I would get a drive of 480gb or higher when I do get one. My main question is should I try and clone to the SSD or just start from scratch with a fresh install of windows? Also since I have no experience with SSD drives can I use it for all my data or just the so and a few programs? Thanks Twinkie hxtr 1 Awards
Sammy Posted July 25, 2014 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 1.92 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Posted July 25, 2014 Personally, I dont think they are mature enough to justify the price per gb. Dont use them for constant data writing because there are a finite number of them it will accept before it wont accept any more. Also worst of all, it wont tell you if it is starting to fail. I would put the money into a fast and reliable hdd. Awards
NITRO Posted July 25, 2014 Member ID: 1095 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 34 Topic Count: 101 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3639 Content Per Day: 0.65 Reputation: 2460 Achievement Points: 24702 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 02/06/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 03/23/1979 Device: iPhone Posted July 25, 2014 (edited) I have a 115GB SSD for my OS and my games then i have a 2TB HDD for bulk data like movies, music and all my random shit and another 2TB HDD external for backing up anything im scared to loose. Basically anything i want to have decent performance in terms of load time read/write etc will be installed on the SSD. You can use a SSD to store all your data, you are only limited by the size of the drive. Edited July 25, 2014 by NITRO YACCster 1 Awards
Sitting-Duc Posted July 25, 2014 Member ID: 561 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 85 Topic Count: 502 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 5336 Content Per Day: 0.94 Reputation: 4612 Achievement Points: 41356 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 29 Joined: 10/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Thursday at 08:30 PM Birthday: 04/06/1992 Device: Windows Posted July 25, 2014 I just bought a 512GB for around £150 for my laptop. Very very fast - restarts in 20 seconds or less. Sleep to on is instant. One of the best buys I've ever had. NITRO, ChknFngr, eidolonFIRE and 1 other 4 Awards
NITRO Posted July 25, 2014 Member ID: 1095 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 34 Topic Count: 101 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3639 Content Per Day: 0.65 Reputation: 2460 Achievement Points: 24702 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 02/06/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 03/23/1979 Device: iPhone Posted July 25, 2014 (edited) There you go @@Sgt_Twinkie SSD prices are very reasonable. At that price I want some of these bigger ones lol. Edited July 25, 2014 by NITRO Awards
YACCster Posted July 25, 2014 Member ID: 20683 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 138 Topic Count: 311 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 3407 Content Per Day: 0.82 Reputation: 4127 Achievement Points: 45800 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 22 Joined: 12/12/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: Saturday at 07:04 PM Device: iPhone Posted July 25, 2014 Been running SSD for a bit, highly reccomended, ~9 second boot times. Currently using a Sonnet Tempo SSD PCI card with 2x 240GB SSD in a RAID 0 array and getting 520MB/s writes and 660MB/s reads on a 2009 PCI 2.0 machine. Awards
LaRSin Posted July 25, 2014 Member ID: 45 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 69 Topic Count: 981 Topics Per Day: 0.17 Content Count: 9428 Content Per Day: 1.65 Reputation: 3732 Achievement Points: 68115 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Online Last Seen: 13 minutes ago Birthday: 02/25/1951 Device: Windows Posted July 25, 2014 I use them .Currently I have a 480 in my main computer , 120 in the media server, and a 240 in my Laptop, And yes I recommend them, Awards
rookido Posted July 26, 2014 Member ID: 5785 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 7 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 172 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 74 Achievement Points: 1098 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/27/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 19, 2024 Birthday: 01/01/1970 Posted July 26, 2014 Go for ssd to run your wind7 and other apps, and you will be please with ssd performance. In addition, the prices of most ssd look very reasonable now. If you're skeptical, don't clone from your existing hdd. Freshly install wind7 and other apps. This way kind of making sure it runs smoothly. I have never had problems with ssd except running out of space. So don't use ssd to store your data. Awards
ReaPeR Posted July 26, 2014 Member ID: 3453 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 64 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 668 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 833 Achievement Points: 5126 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 05/19/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 30, 2021 Birthday: 04/22/1975 Posted July 26, 2014 ssd for boot up great install only what u need on it . to keep it fast and reliable and put storage on the regular hhd. I have 2 ssd one for boot the other one I install games on . I have office on my boot but save to my 2 tb hhd so I open programs and install them on my ssd's but if they need to save anything then goes to my regular hd. Awards
ChknFngr Posted July 26, 2014 Member ID: 922 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 72 Topic Count: 149 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 3472 Content Per Day: 0.62 Reputation: 1286 Achievement Points: 23224 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/23/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 16, 2021 Birthday: 10/01/1975 Posted July 26, 2014 yes ssd are great, fast and all and they silent that is also a big + now about cloning, i'd love to have some ansers too, as i want to get a bigger one than the one i have now and i dont want to do a fresh install as i have many, and i mean a whole lot of stuffs (plugins, customizations and all) i dont want to reinstall Twinkie 13 1 Awards
MrBubbles Posted July 26, 2014 Member ID: 349 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 30 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 821 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 541 Achievement Points: 5195 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/10/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 5, 2017 Birthday: 01/27/1971 Posted July 26, 2014 Once you go SSD, you'll never want to go back!
eidolonFIRE Posted July 26, 2014 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Posted July 26, 2014 my next build will have an SSD at least for the OS. They are wicked fast. Some of them are very nice for laptops too since they can be very power efficient (specific ones)
L!ckALotAPus Posted July 26, 2014 Member ID: 21216 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 20 Topic Count: 33 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1695 Content Per Day: 0.43 Reputation: 1732 Achievement Points: 15803 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/15/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 8, 2020 Birthday: 02/09/1966 Posted July 26, 2014 SSD for the OS.i have ben using a OCZ Vertix 3 120 Gig for 4 years now! no sing of a fail yet! power on count 1819, hours 10111 yes 10,000 hours and 0 faults. that is what crystal disk info says.
Sammy Posted July 26, 2014 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 1.92 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Posted July 26, 2014 Unless they fixed it there will never be a sign of imminent failure. They just do one day. Awards
LaRSin Posted July 26, 2014 Member ID: 45 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 69 Topic Count: 981 Topics Per Day: 0.17 Content Count: 9428 Content Per Day: 1.65 Reputation: 3732 Achievement Points: 68115 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Online Last Seen: 13 minutes ago Birthday: 02/25/1951 Device: Windows Posted July 26, 2014 yes ssd are great, fast and all and they silent that is also a big + now about cloning, i'd love to have some ansers too, as i want to get a bigger one than the one i have now and i dont want to do a fresh install as i have many, and i mean a whole lot of stuffs (plugins, customizations and all) i dont want to reinstall I Acronis to clone both my laptop and server .. ChknFngr 1 Awards
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