SSD for OS

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Kroc

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Hi guys,

Does anyone have much experience with putting your OS on an SSD? I'm looking to get a G. Skills Falcon II and putting Windows 7 on it for the faster load times, but I've heard bad things about 'stuttering' and 'choking'. Thoughts?
 
The reviews on it look good. Have you heard about "stuttering and choking" on this particular drive or on SSDs in general? It's my understanding that the performance of some of the first generation SSDs was inconsistant.

I recently went to an SSD and am very happy with the results. I have heard that performance diminishes as an SSD nears capacity. I plan to make it a point to operate mine at no more than about 60-70% capacity.
 
jevery said:
The reviews on it look good. Have you heard about "stuttering and choking" on this particular drive or on SSDs in general? It's my understanding that the performance of some of the first generation SSDs was inconsistant.

I recently went to an SSD and am very happy with the results. I have heard that performance diminishes as an SSD nears capacity. I plan to make it a point to operate mine at no more than about 60-70% capacity.
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The "stuttering and choking" was with SSDs in general, so it's probably from people with old prejudices because of bad experience with first generation units.

How big is Windows 7? I'll probably only put my OS and perhaps World of Warcraft on it, and then archive all my other stuff on a Samsung F3 Spinpoint.

Thanks for your advice! :)
 
stuttering was with the old jmicron ssd controlers, i do belive that most of the half decent ssd's have resolved this however there are still some floating about!

i have witnessed 1st hand this stuttering on a crucial ssd i bought, it was so bad i would rather run my pc on a 10yr old hard drive than put up with it..
 
I've got Windows 7 Professional, Microsoft Office (Word and Excel), Norton Internet Security, Catalyst Control Center, plus assorted smaller programs on an 80 GB SSD and have only 26 GB occupied, which works out to about 33% usage at this time. I have moved Windows Library files, (My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, My Videos) to my D: storage drive.

If you're going with the 64GB version of the Falcon, your OS and other essential Windows programs such as anti-virus, GPU software, etc, plus WOW shouldn't be any problem. I think you'll like the SSD. My computer at work now seems so slow it's almost intolerable. That's the problem that I see with the SSD - Once you experience it, You'll never be satisfied with anything less.
 
jevery said:
I've got Windows 7 Professional, Microsoft Office (Word and Excel), Norton Internet Security, Catalyst Control Center, plus assorted smaller programs on an 80 GB SSD and have only 26 GB occupied, which works out to about 33% usage at this time. I have moved Windows Library files, (My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, My Videos) to my D: storage drive.

If you're going with the 64GB version of the Falcon, your OS and other essential Windows programs such as anti-virus, GPU software, etc, plus WOW shouldn't be any problem. I think you'll like the SSD. My computer at work now seems so slow it's almost intolerable. That's the problem that I see with the SSD - Once you experience it, You'll never be satisfied with anything less.
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Yeah, I can see I'm going to end up living a sheltered computer lifestyle. :P
I'm quite looking forward to instant boots, load times and high FPSes. Should be cool. Thanks for your advice.
 
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