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Computer HHD, Partitions and System Software Layout
datora:
--- Quote from: MalusSciurus on April 23, 2012, 03:36:41 AM ---The SSD size I'm thinking of getting is 500GB but that maybe way too much [... ] Would partitioning a SSD be pointless then?
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Yes and Yes. Too much and pointless. If you have that sort of money to throw around, look to a pair of very recent 180 GB Intel or Samsung or Plextor models and go with RAID 0 for extreme performance or two drives for only amazing performance. The money you save by doing that you can mail to me as a consulting fee. I'm pretty broke these days and could really use it.
Do a serious evaluation of how much installation space you really need. If you start to run short on space with 180 GB main SSD drive (which would format to approx. 160+ GB usable space and keep ~8-10% free, so ~145 GB min useable, formatted space) ... you can always uninstall one or two games. I haz a doubt that you really need to have 25 of them always installed at all times, and they all need that sort of performance.
Nadare:
Clearly you need to get a
http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-revodrive-3-x2-max-iops-pci-express-ssd.html
Then get a bigass storage drive for other stuff, set off a partition on it to be a diff-backup of the ramdisk.
Nuff said
NaRu:
--- Quote from: Nadare on April 23, 2012, 11:00:03 AM ---Clearly you need to get a
http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-revodrive-3-x2-max-iops-pci-express-ssd.html
Then get a bigass storage drive for other stuff, set off a partition on it to be a diff-backup of the ramdisk.
Nuff said
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I don't recommend OCZ at all. I had their drives before and each one failed on me. Not one drive last more then a year.
GoGeTa006:
I personally would recommend 1 SSD for EVERY application (games and OS alike)
1 X 120 GB SSD
1 X 1 TB HD
thats just IMO.
I've tried having 1 separate partition for the OS only and so many times I had crashes (and registry problems according to those tune-up utilities) I think the most efficient way is applications in 1 drive and data (documents/music/videos/porn) in other drives
having applications load from the SSD is the most efficient way to. . .well get them to start, but reading music/images/videos, I hardly doubt you will notice much difference between having them in a SSD and a regular hard drive. . .unless you're playing some exotic over 1080p video with some super-flac audio. . .maybe then
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: GoGeTa006 on April 24, 2012, 03:04:36 AM ---I personally would recommend 1 SSD for EVERY application (games and OS alike)
I've tried having 1 separate partition for the OS only and so many times I had crashes (and registry problems according to those tune-up utilities) I think the most efficient way is applications in 1 drive and data (documents/music/videos/porn) in other drives
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thats what should people be doing XD you put a main partition where critical programs should be installed with the OS, while unnecessary files such as torrents, installers, documents, you get the idea and such should be stored on some other partition but most preferably on a different drive all together.
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