I'm convinced on SSD's

so my friend kind of let me "borrow" his rig, as he wants me to swap his case, etc..
he has a 120gb crucialm4 in there.. my god that thing is great

so that convinced me to get one, and i remember ali saying that they are quite reliable now?

so what are maintenance steps and tweaks for an ssd with windows 7?

1) Install drive.
2) Use.

I have a buddy that was an early adopter of SSD. It's super quick, but apparently he's never done any of the firmware updates that you're supposed to do.

I talked to a friend that still works at a local computer shop, and she said they haven't sold many, and the ones they have are to people that know about computers. So they've flashed the firmware updates on the SSDs, and it causes Windows to screw up, requiring a re-install.

Funny stuff.

I have no need for SSDs right now. Until they have 4TB drives for cheap, it's not worth it in my mind.

Crucial M4's are dirt cheap and are really great drives. They technically are not the bleeding edge fastest drives but honestly they are fine for the 99%. Also FW updates wont screw up windows but with anything like that you need to backup your files. The safest and reliable FW updates come from Intel, you can even update most Intel drives within the OS with Intel SSD Toolbox. Honestly, either a SSD boot drive or a SSD Cache (not a fan of ssd cache but its better then no SSD at all) drive is a no brainier if you are building your own computer. A mechanical hard drive is the signal slowest part (in terms of IOPS and bandwidth) in any computer.

No offence but you have no idea what you are missing.

yup.. going to go pick up a m4 or another 6850 today.. probably the m4.. all i want is the most reliable, they will be fast..

yeah MasterB i agree with ali, i thought it was all hype, but holy crap!

now what the hell am i going to do with all my old stuff
is the sweetspot 1tb right now in terms of price per gb for mechanical hds?

Yeah, SSDs are a slam dunk. But you have to use them differently than standard platter drives. OS/applications go on the SSD drive, and then data on large platter drives. One you've gone SSD there is no turning back...

Yeah, what MSP said. I changed the default locations for My Music, My Documents, My Pictures, My Downloads, etc to another drive. Basically everything in my user directory except for Desktop, AppData, etc.

how did you manage to do that ali? thats sweet

and moving big files won't do anything to the ssd right? (if i keep it below like 4gb?)

if im installing something like diablo 3 (15gb) to the ssd will it be okay? cause i heard your not supposed to move large files or something

~edit~ i just bought a crucial 128gb for 110$ on amazon. great price

Let me put it this way, if you installed a 10gb program/game on your drive every single day for a few years you would still have nothing to worry about.

The only time you need to worry about SSD life is if you are writing to the entire drive many times over in the same day for months at a time. Otherwise, don't even worry about it.

As far as how I changed the default locations of those folders, I changed the Library settings for those folders. The screenshot I took should give you an idea.

thanks for the info.. ghostingwise i'll do it maybe once every 4 years when i get a new hdd.. but guess thats out of there now

would you reccomend i dualboot? or just pick up another ssd later? (osx/windows via hackintosh)

ssd's are getting cheaper than harddrives.

fuuuccckk

I would recommend that after 4 years you perform a clean install of Windows and not simply ghost disk to disk.

I have the Crucial M4 128GB and updated the firmware in Win7 with no issues. As posted before, you should back-up your data at least once a week to be safe.
Kick azz SSD guide and more!
http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds

used a guide similar to that, installed an intel 520 for a buddy, wow that thing is awesome.

Look at stuff from Intel, Crucial, or Samsung. I finally gave in and bought a 64GB Samsung 830 a few months back (I paid $100 for it). It's fast! I won't go back to HDDs except for backups.

running off the ssd right now, updated to latest firmwares, and just did all my tweaks. this thing is SWEEET!
its faster than any xx amount of ram i added for sure, and with the firmeware update and tweaks, it seems even faster than my friends.

i might have to get another one just for steam/adobe/3d

at this rate

The 256GB version of Crucial's M4 is $179.99 on amazon right now. Its a fucking steal.

oh! fuck me -__- right when i buy the 120 and install..

on another note.. man does BF 3 sucks.. and games do not seem to be worth putting on the SSD

What Ali said . . . Damn that's tempting.

no doubt.. getting another one for my macbook, and my hackintosh partition.. will never go back (boot drive wise)