I'm moving from vista to win7 so I don't think that will work for me!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
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I'm moving from vista to win7 so I don't think that will work for me!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster
Oh, ha ha - Missed that part!Quote:
Originally Posted by aazzgard
In that case, yes I believe you just install to the SSD as if it were a normal HDD.
I am running a Samsung 128gb 840 Pro and a 250gb 840 EVO on Sata 2 (3gb/s) and whilst it might be a tiny bit slower than on Sata 3, it is still a vast improvement over a spinning drive. Reboot time is exactly a minute, not sure what the cold boot time is, but less than this. General speed is good enough that I notice when I have to access files on one of the spinning drives as they are significantly slower. You will see a difference between SATA 2 and 3 when running benchmarks but in the real world it is highly unlikely you will notice any difference apart form how fast your computer is going compared to when it was using the old spinning drive for the OS.
Oh, and if you want a few gmaes on it consider a 250gb -the OS and main programs will be about 60gb and you want to keep about half of an SSD empty for optimum performance so a few 30gb games are better kept on a larger SSD. the Steam games mover (google it) is useful if you want to move games on and off the SSD whilst they remain installed.
This might be a bit past it but just want to add my experience
My work pc is a core2duo E7200, an old foxconn i945g chipset motherboard (sataII) and a Asus geforce GT630, I had 2x1gb sticks of ddr2
I stuck a SanDisk Ultra 120gb (SDSSDH-120G-G25, which is only sataII) in it for windows 7 pro 64bit
It was a big step up from the old 80gb hard drive that was in there, but wasn't super snappy.
I've recently replaced the ram with 2x2gb sticks of DDR2 and there was a noticeable bump in speed, I didn't take and speed tests but it was a noticeable change.
What I'm getting at here, is that while an ssd will improve an older system, upping the ram as well is a good idea, I think what was happening is that 2gb of ram windows was still caching quite a bit of data to the ssd thus slowing down the overall performance.
Also for note, the SSD is about 2/3rds full after windows7 and software, 46gb free space.
Same drive here (120GB EVO), and cold boot to 'full readiness', ie waiting for wifi to log in and all my other apps to start up, is 24 seconds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meatfish
I have an i5 rig at work with standard HDD and that takes almost 4 times longer to be ready!!!
Been showing it off to all my friends... apparently it is funny to simply show them the drive and say "EEEEEEE-VO" in a Wall-E accent, but it gets old pretty quick... :lol: