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At this price, I might be going SSD
HaRuMaN:
Here's a good read on why you shouldn't put an OS on SSD:
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=669
Cakemeister:
--- Quote from: HarumaN on November 09, 2009, 12:29:10 pm ---Here's a good read on why you shouldn't put an OS on SSD:
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=669
--- End quote ---
That article's a little old, it doesn't take TRIM into account.
The drives went on sale today and I pulled the trigger. We'll see how it works out.
ahofle:
I think you just need to tweak a few things, such as pointing your windows/internet temp directories to an HDD, turn off defrag, move swapfile, etc. I think in the near future, you will start to see operating systems include features/settings that make using a SSD a lot easier. At least I hope so. If you could somehow set it up so just the (mostly) read only stuff like windows files and programs are stored on it, it would be a big step forward.
Please let us know how it works out.
Cakemeister:
Of interest is this article:
http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/05/05/support-and-q-a-for-solid-state-drives-and.aspx
--- Quote ---Should the pagefile be placed on SSDs?
Yes. Most pagefile operations are small random reads or larger sequential writes, both of which are types of operations that SSDs handle well.
In looking at telemetry data from thousands of traces and focusing on pagefile reads and writes, we find that
Pagefile.sys reads outnumber pagefile.sys writes by about 40 to 1,
Pagefile.sys read sizes are typically quite small, with 67% less than or equal to 4 KB, and 88% less than 16 KB.
Pagefile.sys writes are relatively large, with 62% greater than or equal to 128 KB and 45% being exactly 1 MB in size.
In fact, given typical pagefile reference patterns and the favorable performance characteristics SSDs have on those patterns, there are few files better than the pagefile to place on an SSD.
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ahofle:
Cool, I did not know that.
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