[Tech] Windows 7 & SSD advice, anyone?

[DocBot]

So, today my HDD went and died on me. In a fit of rage I ran and bought a new one, plus a 40 gig SSD drive, plus win7. Win7 is installed on the SSD drive, I've set a permanent 4 gig page file on that drive too. I swithced the default program files folder to the D: drive (which is causing a few problems, unfortunately), and am currently setting the rest up.

Never done this before, and if anyone has any useful tips, I'll gladly hear them

 

[thatbloke]

So, today my HDD went and died on me. In a fit of rage I ran and bought a new one, plus a 40 gig SSD drive, plus win7. Win7 is installed on the SSD drive, I've set a permanent 4 gig page file on that drive too. I swithced the default program files folder to the D: drive (which is causing a few problems, unfortunately), and am currently setting the rest up.

Never done this before, and if anyone has any useful tips, I'll gladly hear them

how much ram do you have and are you using 32 or 64-bit Win7?

 

[DocBot]

I've got 2 gig ram atm (I'll upgrade that when I switch MB), using 64 bit.

 

[DocBot]

I can now confirm that my comp is ridiculously fast, compared to before. Now, that's probably partly because I've switched OS, and partly because my old HD was b0rked, but I'm gonna suppose it's mostly because of the SSD (otherwise I've spent lots of money in vain). Now starting virtually any program is instantaneous (not games). Yay for SSD!

(Can't wait to upgrade the MB/ram/CPU )

 

[thatbloke]

I can now confirm that my comp is ridiculously fast, compared to before. Now, that's probably partly because I've switched OS, and partly because my old HD was b0rked, but I'm gonna suppose it's mostly because of the SSD (otherwise I've spent lots of money in vain). Now starting virtually any program is instantaneous (not games). Yay for SSD!

(Can't wait to upgrade the MB/ram/CPU )

*jealous*

 

[DocBot]

on the downside, apparently SSD's have shorter lifespans than regular drives. Although I read somewhere that it's around 5 years, and that's well enough for me. Anyone know anything about this? Should I move the page file / documents and settings to the regular drive?

 

[thatbloke]

on the downside, apparently SSD's have shorter lifespans than regular drives. Although I read somewhere that it's around 5 years, and that's well enough for me. Anyone know anything about this? Should I move the page file / documents and settings to the regular drive?

those are probably the two most accessed areas of your drive other than the Windows OS itself - I wouldn't bother.

Also by the time that thing eventually conks out SSDs will be the norm and an SSD with, say, 1TB capacity will be a very similar price to a mechanical 1TB drive's price today. Also their performance will be way better by then too