SSD's

[Philib]

Hello guys, thanks for all the amazing advice you've been giving me over the past few months. Its really helped me get through some issues I've been having. Anyway enough with the praise and on with another question/questions.

I have recently bought a 830 SSD to run windows and a few games. Now last night I happened to be on ebuyer and spotted an M4 SSD on special offer and found myself reaching for the credit card. Now they are both 256 gig (or there about's) and was just wondering if I have to change any setting in my bios or windows to run these at their best. A friend of mine suggested I had to change a few things but didnt mention what to get the best out of it. At the moment I am still waiting on my M4 to be delivered but my 830 is in my current rig and seems to be running just fine.

Also on another note, I intended to have 3 HD's in my rig to run the following, 1 SSD to run windows and the majority of my programs, the other SSD just for steam and games, and a 500 gig HD for storage and media.

Does all this seem to be the best way to do things or have I too many HDD's in my rig?

Let us know what you think and also if I need to change any settings.

Many thanks guys.

 

[jamesriley94]

Hello guys, thanks for all the amazing advice you've been giving me over the past few months. Its really helped me get through some issues I've been having. Anyway enough with the praise and on with another question/questions.

I have recently bought a 830 SSD to run windows and a few games. Now last night I happened to be on ebuyer and spotted an M4 SSD on special offer and found myself reaching for the credit card. Now they are both 256 gig (or there about's) and was just wondering if I have to change any setting in my bios or windows to run these at their best. A friend of mine suggested I had to change a few things but didnt mention what to get the best out of it. At the moment I am still waiting on my M4 to be delivered but my 830 is in my current rig and seems to be running just fine.

Also on another note, I intended to have 3 HD's in my rig to run the following, 1 SSD to run windows and the majority of my programs, the other SSD just for steam and games, and a 500 gig HD for storage and media.

Does all this seem to be the best way to do things or have I too many HDD's in my rig?

Let us know what you think and also if I need to change any settings.

Many thanks guys.

As long as they're in AHCI and running of SATAIII they're pretty much optimised. Don't ever defragment them - dunno if you knew that.

I personally think that's too much. I can happily run pretty much all my games, programs and windows off a 128gb SSD - with all my data on a 320gb HDD. I dislike it when people add like 6 250gb HDDs cause it just makes cabling a nightmare - and it would be far more efficient to buy a 1TB drive.

Obviously if you actually need the space and require 6TB of storage then fair enough - but otherwise, I don't see how people can't manage on a single drive.

 

[Philib]

If I was to install all my games (just from steam), then that would be pushing 250gig tbh. Then I have all my other games like BF3 and eve which are pretty big just by themselves.

 

[jamesriley94]

Yeh - I understand that - so for you that's probably the best option...

I'd be in pretty much the same boat if I installed all my steam games. But in reality - you only play a couple of those games don't you.

I have pretty much all of my games as backups on my HDD, with only around 4/5 games actually installed. It obviously saves a lot of money like this - but it just depends on the user.

 

[Philib]

Yeah agree with you 100% mate but I am going to a LAN at the weekend so I really need to have everything installed. Hope you understand.

 

[J0s3e]

What LAN, where is it?

 

[Philib]

Gillingham.