Just installed my new ssd drive...
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Really, I already had a Crucial m4 64Gb drive installed, but after installing Windows 7 and all of my other programs (not apps), I found that I had only 6Gb left and I wanted to install VS2012 which takes 7+Gb. So I picked up Crucial m4 256Gb for $160 (Amazon had a deal that lasted about two hours, seriously, 2 hours later the price jumped to $170 and by the next day it was back up to $185 which is where it was the day before). Transfered the OS from the old drive to the new drive with the Ghost-like software that Crucial bundled with their drive and had the whole thing back up and running in an hour and the only hiccup was that I had to re-activate Photoshop. Just installed VS2012 and I'll be playing with that tonight. I've been wanting to check out the C++11 features. I will probably take the 64Gb drive and use that for paging and temp files. There is nothing wrong with it other than it is too small to be an OS drive.
m.bergman
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
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Really, I already had a Crucial m4 64Gb drive installed, but after installing Windows 7 and all of my other programs (not apps), I found that I had only 6Gb left and I wanted to install VS2012 which takes 7+Gb. So I picked up Crucial m4 256Gb for $160 (Amazon had a deal that lasted about two hours, seriously, 2 hours later the price jumped to $170 and by the next day it was back up to $185 which is where it was the day before). Transfered the OS from the old drive to the new drive with the Ghost-like software that Crucial bundled with their drive and had the whole thing back up and running in an hour and the only hiccup was that I had to re-activate Photoshop. Just installed VS2012 and I'll be playing with that tonight. I've been wanting to check out the C++11 features. I will probably take the 64Gb drive and use that for paging and temp files. There is nothing wrong with it other than it is too small to be an OS drive.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
Just got a MacBook with a 768GB SSD. Good lord it's awesome. So far the only thing that's really put it through its paces was calculating hash codes for a Windows 7 ISO. It calculated 2.5x faster on my Mac laptop (SSD) than on my PC laptop (probably 7,200 or 5,400 RPM HDD). I haven't found anything yet that slows it down. I tried installing things while downloading other things and exploring the various apps. Nothing has phased it yet. The real test will be when I install Visual Studio.
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Really, I already had a Crucial m4 64Gb drive installed, but after installing Windows 7 and all of my other programs (not apps), I found that I had only 6Gb left and I wanted to install VS2012 which takes 7+Gb. So I picked up Crucial m4 256Gb for $160 (Amazon had a deal that lasted about two hours, seriously, 2 hours later the price jumped to $170 and by the next day it was back up to $185 which is where it was the day before). Transfered the OS from the old drive to the new drive with the Ghost-like software that Crucial bundled with their drive and had the whole thing back up and running in an hour and the only hiccup was that I had to re-activate Photoshop. Just installed VS2012 and I'll be playing with that tonight. I've been wanting to check out the C++11 features. I will probably take the 64Gb drive and use that for paging and temp files. There is nothing wrong with it other than it is too small to be an OS drive.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
Michael Bergman wrote:
after installing Windows 7 and all of my other programs (not apps), I found that I had only 6Gb left
By the way, you might want to try deleting your hibernate file and your page file (and disabling those features). When I installed Windows 7, it was taking up 40GB. After removing the two aforementioned files, it was only taking up 15GB.
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Really, I already had a Crucial m4 64Gb drive installed, but after installing Windows 7 and all of my other programs (not apps), I found that I had only 6Gb left and I wanted to install VS2012 which takes 7+Gb. So I picked up Crucial m4 256Gb for $160 (Amazon had a deal that lasted about two hours, seriously, 2 hours later the price jumped to $170 and by the next day it was back up to $185 which is where it was the day before). Transfered the OS from the old drive to the new drive with the Ghost-like software that Crucial bundled with their drive and had the whole thing back up and running in an hour and the only hiccup was that I had to re-activate Photoshop. Just installed VS2012 and I'll be playing with that tonight. I've been wanting to check out the C++11 features. I will probably take the 64Gb drive and use that for paging and temp files. There is nothing wrong with it other than it is too small to be an OS drive.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
Michael Bergman wrote:
I will probably take the 64Gb drive and use that for paging and temp files.
You might want to reconsider that. I read this on the Internet, so it could be somewhere betweeen 100% correct and about as much use a plasticine spanner but SSDs don't take well to repeated writes. I've certainly read advice on sites not to put Linix swap partitions onto SSDs. Not sure how good this advice is, I'd like to know as I'm considering an SSD upgrade to try and get another year's useful life out my current lappie.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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Just got a MacBook with a 768GB SSD. Good lord it's awesome. So far the only thing that's really put it through its paces was calculating hash codes for a Windows 7 ISO. It calculated 2.5x faster on my Mac laptop (SSD) than on my PC laptop (probably 7,200 or 5,400 RPM HDD). I haven't found anything yet that slows it down. I tried installing things while downloading other things and exploring the various apps. Nothing has phased it yet. The real test will be when I install Visual Studio.
AspDotNetDev wrote:
I haven't found anything yet that slows it down.
Send it to my Dad, he'll somehow find a way.
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Michael Bergman wrote:
after installing Windows 7 and all of my other programs (not apps), I found that I had only 6Gb left
By the way, you might want to try deleting your hibernate file and your page file (and disabling those features). When I installed Windows 7, it was taking up 40GB. After removing the two aforementioned files, it was only taking up 15GB.
Thanks. I don't allow my machine to hibernate. It's a desktop, not a laptop so I can afford to keep it on all the time. I moved my page file to an HDD. I played a lot of tricks with the installation of all of my software to get as much as I could to fit on the 64Gb drive. The one thing I couldn't figure out was how to move the restore points to a different drive. The only thing I could do was make sure I had only the last one.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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Michael Bergman wrote:
I will probably take the 64Gb drive and use that for paging and temp files.
You might want to reconsider that. I read this on the Internet, so it could be somewhere betweeen 100% correct and about as much use a plasticine spanner but SSDs don't take well to repeated writes. I've certainly read advice on sites not to put Linix swap partitions onto SSDs. Not sure how good this advice is, I'd like to know as I'm considering an SSD upgrade to try and get another year's useful life out my current lappie.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]SSD technology has come a long way in the past couple of years. I read an article on Tom's Hardware how modern SSDs have improved to the point that if you were to write to the SSD every couple of milliseconds it would still take about five years to degrade to the point where it would no longer work. Since it is only 64Gb (my data drive is 1Tb) and I have no intention of putting any valuable data on it, I figured this would be a good test to see if it smooths out the performance when I am approaching maxing out memory allocations. And if the drive gets thrashed, I don't think I will miss it.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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Michael Bergman wrote:
I will probably take the 64Gb drive and use that for paging and temp files.
You might want to reconsider that. I read this on the Internet, so it could be somewhere betweeen 100% correct and about as much use a plasticine spanner but SSDs don't take well to repeated writes. I've certainly read advice on sites not to put Linix swap partitions onto SSDs. Not sure how good this advice is, I'd like to know as I'm considering an SSD upgrade to try and get another year's useful life out my current lappie.
Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^]
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A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]You know, you just gave me an idea: I have an old Dell that I've been using to host Linux. May just take the small SSD and put it in that machine and then install the latest distro on the SSD. Of course, that depends on whether the Dell machine has a SATA controller built in which, given the age of the machine, is a toss-up. Thanks.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot