My First SSd Advice Please

[Tindo]

Hi guys, buying my firs ssd from Aria on Friday, Nothing big, just for windows and a few apps coz this is a gaming Rig, I would please love all advise like should I clone or fresh install, switching off hibernation in Win 7 etc, since I'm a noob to SSd's, many thanks, here is a link to the drive https://www.aria.co....productId=47600

 

[Jadarite]

You can get the Samsung 64GB 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" SSD Basic Kit for £49.99 from www.dabs.com which is a much better ssd and at a good price, hope this of some help to you

 

[VengeanceUK]

although if you could expand the budget, the performance sweetspot is 256Gb reads / writes etc

i have the samsung 830 and have been running it for about 10 days and i can say i am nothing short of stunned with the performance, sub 16 second cold boots from bios to login

 

[seumasbeathan]

Definitely do not get the ocz one, get either the Samsung one or a Crucial M4 or Mushkin Chronos

 

[Tindo]

You can get the Samsung 64GB 830 Series SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" SSD Basic Kit for £49.99 from www.dabs.com which is a much better ssd and at a good price, hope this of some help to you

Thanks a lot, will go for this Sansung, if you don't mind another question, should i reinstall or clone, thanks

 

[VengeanceUK]

+1

ocz products seem to be very fragile and do not last very long, in my experience and several forum members experience,

yet some people have high praise for them, its another silicon lottery really, but i would really recommend to avoid ocz

personally i would always reinstall, just so you get the best possible experience as you may have inadvertant "crapware" that negates some performance advantage, but at the end of the day the choice is yours as you may have to spend many an hour resetting all your software, devices etc back up and obviously patching windows to the latest updates

 

[Tindo]

although if you could expand the budget, the performance sweetspot is 256Gb reads / writes etc

i have the samsung 830 and have been running it for about 10 days and i can say i am nothing short of stunned with the performance, sub 16 second cold boots from bios to login

Money talks at the moment brother so why getting 60gb, decided to go for the samsung then

 

[Tindo]

Definitely do not get the ocz one, get either the Samsung one or a Crucial M4 or Mushkin Chronos

ok will get the samsung one, heard good reviews on that 830 controller

 

[Jadarite]

Thanks a lot, will go for this Sansung, if you don't mind another question, should i reinstall or clone, thanks

reinstall is the best way of doing it but if the data on your hdd can not be backed up on disk or usb then clone it,

or just use it as a caching drive

 

[VengeanceUK]

the other great thing about the samsung is, that all parts are sourced, compiled and built in house, so theres no "hotpotchery" of suppliers malingering around inside the drive.

i believe it is a tri-core controller, loosely based around samsungs ARM-architecture

 

[Tindo]

the other great thing about the samsung is, that all parts are sourced, compiled and built in house, so theres no "hotpotchery" of suppliers malingering around inside the drive.

i believe it is a tri-core controller, loosely based around samsungs ARM-architecture

Yes its a tri-core controller, Samsung It is Then, Thanks guys, any tips on hibernation and page filing and system restore etc

 

[VengeanceUK]

personally i disable system restore and keep an image of the "original installation" (yes it may involve more work should something happen, but its something i'm happy enough to do)

and i never use hibernation (especially with cold boot times so fast now, theres even less reason to use it lol)

as for page file, i believe i set it up to run off a different hdd which is a sata600 drive

 

[Jadarite]

this will be of no help but it will give you something to read http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/windows-7-and-ssds-cutting-your-system-drive-down-to-size/2941?pg=3&tag=content;siu-container

 

[Tindo]

Thanks

 

[Gothique Doll]

Doesn't Win 7 turn off hibernation automatically when it detects an SSD as system drive? It's pretty good at setting itself up for an SSD compared to other flavours of windows, paging file location is one of those things that you either think should be moved or not, so go with your own preference on that one! I personally think a lot of the more complicated SSD advice comes from when the drives were usually small and every MB counted for an OS drive. With drive sizes being what they are now, space - and write frequency - are a lot less of an issue, even with a 60GB drive, as long as you don't fill it to the brim. You might find you need to install some things (a good example for me is Steam!) on your data drive if they are space hogs so some planning of what you are going to install where helps before you start. Look at your current set up and see how much space different programs are taking up and decide where you will put them when you reinstall on the new SSD.