I am thinking about buying an ssd drive (i know nothing about them and how they work) and was wondering what major advantages it would have over a basic hard drive, would i still be able to install other programs on my regualr hd and are they hard to setup.....thanks for any help
SSD drive ?
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wolfeking
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a SSD has a couple of advantages. Load times are reduced, and life is extended, they use less energy and produce less heat.
A SSD is basically a SATA flash drive, but with a lot more storage space. They do not have spinning heads, so less sound is produced by them. There is also literally no latency time at all.
A SSD is basically a SATA flash drive, but with a lot more storage space. They do not have spinning heads, so less sound is produced by them. There is also literally no latency time at all.
claptonman
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Take a look at this:
http://www.computerforum.com/192436-setup-manage-ssd.html
Hard for the average computer user, but I'm guessing you built your own computer, so it's not that hard.
Advantages: they're fast. Best purchase I ever made.
Your motherboard has SATA III, so I would suggest getting a SATA III drive.
To answer your question about installing things, yes, you can install programs that you don't want on your SSD to your HDD. For instance, you don't want your internet browser on your SSD, so you'll have to install firefox or whatever browser (Except chrome, automatically installs to C: drive) to your HDD. You'll want to reroute everything to your HDD, like your download folder. And you got to make sure when you install things, you know which drive you want to install it to and choose that drive. It takes some time to get used to, but absolutely worth it.
And you can't just clone your HDD, you'll have to reinstall everything, and put win7 on the SSD.
http://www.computerforum.com/192436-setup-manage-ssd.html
Hard for the average computer user, but I'm guessing you built your own computer, so it's not that hard.
Advantages: they're fast. Best purchase I ever made.
Your motherboard has SATA III, so I would suggest getting a SATA III drive.
To answer your question about installing things, yes, you can install programs that you don't want on your SSD to your HDD. For instance, you don't want your internet browser on your SSD, so you'll have to install firefox or whatever browser (Except chrome, automatically installs to C: drive) to your HDD. You'll want to reroute everything to your HDD, like your download folder. And you got to make sure when you install things, you know which drive you want to install it to and choose that drive. It takes some time to get used to, but absolutely worth it.
And you can't just clone your HDD, you'll have to reinstall everything, and put win7 on the SSD.
strollin
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This isn't 100% true. You can clone your hdd to your ssd but you may end up with misaligned partitions which can degrade performance. There is software available such as Paragon partition alignment tool to align the partitions correctly.
An ssd appears to your system exactly like an hdd, you'll want to manage installs to minimize what gets installed on the ssd since they tend to be smaller so space gets gobbled up quickly.