Fitting Win7 and Mint into 60GB?

GunJack

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

but most things are possible (even getting through to Gunjack ) and Xboot is your friend,

...and what you tryin' to say mate :rotfl:

fwor

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

Easy fit. My 64 gig SSD has a 40 gig C: which only uses 16 gig for Win 7. I use the other 20 gig as an SSD cache for my 1 TB data disk.

As a matter of interest, what make/model SSD did you go for, and did it cause you any problems? If you read the reviews, Corsair and OCZ seem to get ~loads~ of reports of long system freezes, though firmware updates help overcome that in many cases.

The tiny Kingston SSD that I have on this PC (purely for the root directory) has - touch wood - been no problem at all.

Toxteth_OGrady

fwor wrote: »

As a matter of interest, what make/model SSD did you go for, and did it cause you any problems? If you read the reviews, Corsair and OCZ seem to get ~loads~ of reports of long system freezes, though firmware updates help overcome that in many cases.

The tiny Kingston SSD that I have on this PC (purely for the root directory) has - touch wood - been no problem at all.

One rig has a Crucial C300 and the other a Crucial M4, both 64 gig and both perform flawlessly.

fwor

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

One rig has a Crucial C300 and the other a Crucial M4, both 64 gig and both perform flawlessly.

Thanks - that confirms what the reviews say. The Crucial M4 has a write speed of 95MB/s, and gets a very high proportion of good reviews. A Corsair 60GB Nova Series 2 cost significantly less, advertises a write speed of 240MB/s (which is getting up towards SATA2's limit of around 300MB/s), but gets a high proportion of bad reviews.

From what you say I think I'll stump up the extra cash and go for an M4, partly because I've dealt with Crucial/Micron customer service recently, and the experience was a good one.

I also suspect that nothing I'll be doing on it will need a sustained transfer rate any higher than 95MB/s anyway...

Toxteth_OGrady

fwor wrote: »

Thanks - that confirms what the reviews say. The Crucial M4 has a write speed of 95MB/s, and gets a very high proportion of good reviews. A Corsair 60GB Nova Series 2 cost significantly less, advertises a write speed of 240MB/s (which is getting up towards SATA2's limit of around 300MB/s), but gets a high proportion of bad reviews.

From what you say I think I'll stump up the extra cash and go for an M4, partly because I've dealt with Crucial/Micron customer service recently, and the experience was a good one.

I also suspect that nothing I'll be doing on it will need a sustained transfer rate any higher than 95MB/s anyway...

Don't forget that you'll want to minimise writes on your SSD os drive where possible in favour of your storage drive, so read speed performance is a better indicator in that respect and the 64 gig M4 will hit over 400MB/s on a SATA III port.

TakeThis

fwor wrote: »

Looks both encouraging and worrying! The laptop won't come with Win7 installation media, so if mine needs a repair install, I'll be stuck. Oh well, if worst comes to the worst I'll ditch Win7 - but it's annoying to have to pay for it and then not be able to use it...

I still haven't settled on which make/model of SSD to get. Most of the 60/64 GB ones seem to get terrible reviews if you look around (for example the reviews on newegg.com).

The ones that are fast get bad reviews, and the ones that get good reviews tend to be slow...

This is not a problem. You can download the Windows 7 media and transfer it optical disc or USB drive(Using the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool) You can also have downloaded Drivers and applications in advance from the Netbook maker's website.
Activation is simple enough, so you are covered for reinstallation even if imaging fails.

fwor

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

Don't forget that you'll want to minimise writes on your SSD os drive where possible in favour of your storage drive, so read speed performance is a better indicator in that respect and the 64 gig M4 will hit over 400MB/s on a SATA III port.

Unfortunately the laptop only has space for the one drive, so it's for everything, not just OS, and it's only SATA II - I doubt it will be a problem, though.

TakeThis wrote: »

This is not a problem. You can download the Windows 7 media and transfer it optical disc or USB drive(Using the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool) You can also have downloaded Drivers and applications in advance from the Netbook maker's website.
Activation is simple enough, so you are covered for reinstallation even if imaging fails.

It's so long since I last used Windows (more than 5 years now), I've got a lot of learning to do. But that's not a bad thing... Thanks for the info.

TakeThis

Your disc image is here. So you can download and save it, then use Brasero or similar to burn the 'Image to Disc'(not Data to Disc) or use the USB Tool as aforementioned.
At least then you will have the media to hand.

Will talk you through how activation works if it comes to it.

fwor

TakeThis wrote: »

Your disc image is here.

Thanks for that - I grabbed a copy of the 64 bit iso as well (this one) while I was there.

Even though the laptop is shipped with the 32 bit version installed, is it correct that the licence key would be valid for the 64 bit version too? Win7 64 bit drivers are available for that laptop.

TakeThis

fwor wrote: »

Thanks for that - I grabbed a copy of the 64 bit iso as well (this one) while I was there.

Even though the laptop is shipped with the 32 bit version installed, is it correct that the licence key would be valid for the 64 bit version too? Win7 64 bit drivers are available for that laptop.

AFAIK, yes.