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Answer» I am installing a solid state disk for the first time. I plan on installing it like I would install a regular hard drive. However, it Includes an installation kit that contains: a 3.5" desktop drive bay adapter.Yes it did come with an adaptor for installing it in a desktop chassis. A large amount of the reviews that I read before my purchase were from users that put this drive in a desktop. I do believe you are right, I have been reading about enabling trim an it appears that you can make sure it is enabled from the command line. fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify 0 = enabled 1 = disabled I have already installed windows successfully, I have also disabled defragmentation write caching system restore hibernate...........per some other articles that I have read. My NEXT problem is FINDING a home for my paging file. My second drive consists of two 320GB drives striped. I have heard or read, I can't remember which that you should not put your paging file on a raid array. Is this accurate? I would also like to know if I am able to put my paging file on a 4GB flash drive Mount in a USB 2.0 port? The days of moving/relocating your paging file to increase PERFORMANCE have long since passed... If it were me i would simply let Win7 manage it since it does this rather well and leave it in place. As the SSD is the fastest drive in your system this only makes sense. Moving it to a USB stick would also be a performance hit... Remember...you just bought one of the fastest drives on the market...take full advantage of that.Quote from: patio on March 26, 2010, 11:16:42 AM As the SSD is the fastest drive in your system this only makes sense. I am not sure about this. Having the swap file on the SSD can lead to performance degradation. SSDs are getting faster all the time but still the biggest slowdown on SSD hardware is with small random writes. The page file is typically seen as one big file on the drive in terms of space required, but the OS is reading/writing 4KB chunks (a page of data) and these are small random writes. You can leave the page file on the SSD and add a secondary one to the physical hard drive, that works too, but if and when a random write needs to be done on the SSD itself, performance will suffer and you may end up having that "stutter" that a lot of people notice with SSD hardware. Quote from: SmittySr My second drive consists of two 320GB drives striped. I have heard or read, I can't remember which that you should not put your paging file on a raid array. Is this accurate? For the reasons mentioned above I would use a physical drive for the swap file. Regarding RAID arrays, I would definitely use a RAID-0 (striped) array to hold the swap file, However I would avoid putting a paging file on a fault-tolerant drive, such as a mirrored volume (RAID-1) or a RAID-5 volume. Paging files do not need fault-tolerance, and some fault-tolerant systems suffer from slow data writes because they write data to multiple locations. (I expect this is what you heard.) Quote Having the swap file on the SSD can lead to performance degradation. SSDs are getting faster all the time but still the biggest slowdown on SSD hardware is with small random writes. This along the lines of what I have read about leaving the swap file on the SSD. That the flash memory has a limited number of read writes per cell, and this can lead to performance problems in the future. I just wasn't sure that it would be OK to put in on my striped volume.<------ I think that this is the best place for it. My latest problen is that when I enable AHCI in my BIOS I get BSOD. I have to have my storage drives configure IDE in my bios for windows to boot normally.Quote from: SmittySr on March 26, 2010, 02:31:55 PM This along the lines of what I have read about leaving the swap file on the SSD. That the flash memory has a limited number of read writes per cell, and this can lead to performance problems in the future. The small-write performance problem with flash memory drives is separate from the problem of flash memory wearing out after a certain number of read/write cycles. Even if today's flash memory would last forever it would still give stuttery perfomance when holding a swap file. A big modern flash drive would probably last 5 years of being used to hold a swap file. I believe that I have everthing running the way it should. I had to go into the registry and enable the AHCI drivers and reboot the system (enabling AHCI in the BIOS). The system is running very well so far, it is EXTREMELY fast. I have to reinstall my anti-virus and other applications. I would like to thank you guys for your help.I'll concede to Salmon's knowledge on drive performance as he probably knows way more than me when it comes down to it. Just curious though...what wound up being your workable solution ? ? Is the pagefile now on the RAID drive ? ?Yes, as of right now the paging file is on the striped drive. Things are working fine. The system is unbelievably fast. Thus far I have Windows 7 Pro and Microsoft Office 2007 on the drive. I'm jealous... But my beliefs tell me thats not a good thing so don;t tell anyone... |
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