Any special treatment of new SDD required

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Gordon.C

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I am getting soon a new SSD. Never had one so I dont know any drills that you need to do when you get one (if any).

Doing stuff like completely reformating the drive before first use, such as with old magnetic disks.

By the way I am getting this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239046

I will be using it for both OS and for storing data since I need very little space for my stuff.

My old magnetic hard drive will remain in place but I dont think there is any additional setting with connecting multiple SATA right? I have in mind the old stuff like setting drives to master and slave like it used to be with IDE.
 
For the most part, an ssd is a direct replacement for an hdd. Since you plan to use it with both OS and data, there isn't anything you really need to do except disable any disk frag type utility since ssds don't require defragging.

There are some tweaks you can do if you want such as moving your pagefile to the hdd or even disabling the pagefile.
 
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Make sure it's plugged into a SATA 6GB/s port (if your board has one) and that AHCI is set in the BIOS before you install Windows (if your board supports AHCI, most do) and you should be fine.

Are you putting this SSD into a laptop or a desktop?
 
^^Look at that thread. Besides that, just watch what you put on it. I always route my downloads from the internet to my secondary HDD. Do that, if you have one. It can be found in the settings.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
Yes if you unzip a file on an SSD it is slightly faster.
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To be honest, I have had second thought on the SSD. What is gonna be different. I am guessing faster bootup and faster load time in games right. And well in terms of software instead of 5 - 10 seconds launch of photoshop its gonna be instant right?
 
Really from my experience the extra speed is not worth the price. You get slightly faster bootups (in windows, If you run Linux it is almost instant boot even on SATA 1.5Gb/s speeds), and games load very slightly faster, depending on the game. BF3 has a slightly longer load time (about 1 second more on average), but BC2 loads up about 3 seconds faster. ETS2 loads nearly instant on it, but it does on a 7200RPM drive also. :/

Photoshop should be loading nearly instant if you are running a good HDD as is, but yes, it will be nearly instant on the SSD.
 
On SATA2 on my desktop photoshop loads in about 6 seconds. But file transfers, installations, etc. are much faster on an SSD.
 
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