SSD help

forgotmyname

I hate pricing computers up, it starts with a cheapy budget £200 one and ends up at £700 by the time i add an extra couple of £ for a slightly better item.

1 x 256GB SSD £76 or for £80 i can get a pair of SSD and RAID them?

enfield_freddy

ok do it , I think your idea is not needed , not used in practise and a waste of time considering the speed of a SINGLE ssd ,


K.I.S.S


let us know know you get on

tavernman

forgotmyname wrote: »

It wont be a waste of an SSD though, Stripe not mirror.

So a pair of 128's instead of a single 256, still giving 256 capacity but with
improved speed.

I know the pitfalls that if one drive fails you lose everything.

Yeah but why? What needs that sort of speed most raid0 configs are for write speed rather than read, unless you have 128GB of ram....

forgotmyname

128GB of RAM mmmm lets see, no no no.... stoppit.

16GB or so though. It will be for CAD and 3D rendering so needs something
fairly speedy.

Loading 4 - 8GB of photo's to turn into a 3D model is turning my current PC into a snooze machine.

forgotmyname

Spent a few hours trawling tests on using SSD in a RAID 0 setup and yes the benchmarks are amazing.

BUT... It seems in real life use the results are not so good, Opening or copying smaller files etc may not be any faster than a single SSD, sometimes there is a slight loss in performance.

It does benefit when working with very large files though.

Fightsback

Terry98 wrote: »

I do not care about the data that is unaccounted for but I am worried if I buy a 120gb SSD I might find I will not have enough space!

Freddy says he has WIN7 running on a 30gb SSD so 120gb should be enough for me

Get the biggest you can afford as Parkinson's law tends to apply. Besides the larger SSD you get (in general) the faster the read write speeds as the SSD controller can access chips simultaneously.

After you set up the SSD there are a few things you should do:

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/3374812/windows-7-tweaks-for-modern-ssds/

Unless you intend to frequently back up RAID 0 to spinning rust I highly advise against it as you more than double the risk of data loss.

Terry98

Fightsback wrote: »

Get the biggest you can afford as Parkinson's law tends to apply. Besides the larger SSD you get (in general) the faster the read write speeds as the SSD controller can access chips simultaneously.

After you set up the SSD there are a few things you should do:

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/3374812/windows-7-tweaks-for-modern-ssds/

Unless you intend to frequently back up RAID 0 to spinning rust I highly advise against it as you more than double the risk of data loss.

Thanks for the link. Do you agree with what they say about the swap file because a few of the comments below the article are not so sure?

I have now decided to get the 250gb Samsung SSD but I am still wondering about the missing 80-90gb on my c drive. I thought I had found the answer here http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/267100-32-where-100gb
and downloaded windirstat but no temp files showed up! I see
windirstat is also in your link.

Fightsback

Terry98 wrote: »

Thanks for the link. Do you agree with what they say about the swap file because a few of the comments below the article are not so sure?

I have now decided to get the 250gb Samsung SSD but I am still wondering about the missing 80-90gb on my c drive. I thought I had found the answer here http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/267100-32-where-100gb
and downloaded windirstat but no temp files showed up! I see
windirstat is also in your link.

Keep your old HDD in the machine and use that for pagefile.sys (swap file) and it's also handy for backing up your SSD to.

Have you gone here:

Control Panel>All Control Panel Items>Administrative Tools>computer management>storage>disk management

Do this and have a look to see if you have an inactive partition or a restore partition.

Lastly run chkdsk just in case you have any volume errors.

Terry98

I eventually found the missing 84gb!

It was to do with System Restore.

If anyone has the same problem this is how to cure it...

Press Start > Right click on Computer > Properties > System Protection > Highlight C: > Configure.

The current usage figure showing under 'Disk Usage' is the amount reserved for System Restore. For some reason mine had been set to 84gb!

enfield_freddy

as suggested by me in post 8 , many days ago


"system restore , delete all but latest , then sys file cleanup again "


I don,t think the figure is actually set at Number of gb , the size is in relation to the number of restore points there are