Solid State Drive
64 Bit Win 7
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 by RedneckDude | Discussion: PC Hardware
Hey guys! My new SSD arrives tomorrow. I thought some of you who already went there may have some tips?
Like, migrate vs clean install?
Anything I have to tweak?
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OCZ Vertex Plus 120GB 2.5" SATA II SSD
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Reply #2 Wednesday, February 8, 2012 4:42 PM
Clean Install!!
run Windows Experience Index
move libraries to a platter drive
move pagefile to a platter drive
disable hibernation
move all temp folders to a platter drive
Reply #3 Wednesday, February 8, 2012 5:04 PM
I assume you mean to move library contents.
I have a lot of stuff installed that I never use...
I guess dual booting kinda defeats the purpose?
Reply #4 Wednesday, February 8, 2012 5:31 PM
Reply #5 Wednesday, February 8, 2012 5:39 PM
Get rid of it. This is the perfect opportunity to clean house. No mercy. If you don't use it, get it away from your working computer and it's rgistry. The more software you have, the more potential weird problems from interactions and incompatibilities. Worse comes to worse, put that stuff on a zip drive (and label it).
Dual booting... yes. It'll defeat the purpose. keep the other OS somewhere else or on a different machine.
Look at the articles, Jim. Also, look at this. Ed Bott really knows his stuff.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/windows-7-and-ssds-setup-secrets-and-tune-up-tweaks/2910
Reply #6 Thursday, February 9, 2012 7:43 AM
Saved all three links. Would have saved four but I already have a dictionary.
Reply #7 Monday, February 13, 2012 1:02 PM
OCZ Vertex Plus 120GB 2.5" SATA II SSD
Drive Type: Solid State Drive
Capacity: 120 GB
Interface Type: SATA II
Buffer Memory: 64MB
Average Seek (msec): 0.1
Write Speed: up to 160 MB/sec
Read Speed: up to 250 MB/sec
Form Factor: 2.5"
MTBF: 1,500,000 hrs.
Temperature, Operating (°C): 0 to 70
Temperature, Nonoperating (°C): -45 to 85
Hey Jim, I have the exact same drive and have found it to be an excellent piece of hardware..... beats the heck out out a platter drive and I'm sure you'll get many years of great service from it. I've since gotten myself a Corsair Series 3 120GB to run as my primary OS drive, it's faster again, but the OCZ Vertex is still a great servant
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Reply #1 Wednesday, February 8, 2012 4:31 PM
http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid+state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows
http://lifehacker.com/5837769/make-sure-your-partitions-are-correctly-aligned-for-optimal-solid-state-drive-performance
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jeff-Foxworthys-Redneck-Dictionary-III/dp/0345498488?tag=duckduckgo-d-20
Two very good articles on "How to". You do have to be able to read, though... so I threw in the third (that's the middle finger plus one on both sides)
Congrats, good luck, and enjoy ya Redneck! Happy for you.