Ibuypower revolt ssd and hd
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During installation of games and applications, you can choose where to install them to. Choose Custom or Advanced during installation, and direct them to your 1TB drive.
Download the same way. Change your default Download folder to somewhere on the 1TB drive.
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Did you apply space saving tweaks for SSDs, Like
1) disable hibernation - reclaims an amount equal to Ram, ie save 4 gigs space if you have 4 gigs of ram, saves 8 gigs on a system with 8 Gigs of Ram.
2) Manage your page file (Virual Memory). This saves an amount of space equal to 1.5 x Ram. Set Min and Max to the same value. If only 4 gigs of ram, set Min/max to 2048 mb - saves 4 gigs space. If 8 gigs of ram set Min/Max to 1024 gigs - save about 15 gig of SSD space.
3) Either disable restore points or LIMIT the amount of disk space thay can take. Each restore point is approx 300 mb, JUST 10 restore points = 3 Gigs
4) Move your "C: My docs" folder to the HDD
5) Move Internet temp folder to HDD.
JUST google the topic to find out How to do. ie Google "Change virtual Memory", or "Disable Hibernation" ect.
Added - Remember if you want that SSD to perform @ manuf spec You should ONLY use about 80% of the drive. This is so Wear Leaving, Garbage Control, and TRIM can work their magic. For a 120 gig SSD is means you should LIMIT usage to approx 90 Gigs!!! Sure way to cut performance is to fill a SSD to 95% of capacity, also a 95% filled SSD will cut it's life span.
1) disable hibernation - reclaims an amount equal to Ram, ie save 4 gigs space if you have 4 gigs of ram, saves 8 gigs on a system with 8 Gigs of Ram.
2) Manage your page file (Virual Memory). This saves an amount of space equal to 1.5 x Ram. Set Min and Max to the same value. If only 4 gigs of ram, set Min/max to 2048 mb - saves 4 gigs space. If 8 gigs of ram set Min/Max to 1024 gigs - save about 15 gig of SSD space.
3) Either disable restore points or LIMIT the amount of disk space thay can take. Each restore point is approx 300 mb, JUST 10 restore points = 3 Gigs
4) Move your "C: My docs" folder to the HDD
5) Move Internet temp folder to HDD.
JUST google the topic to find out How to do. ie Google "Change virtual Memory", or "Disable Hibernation" ect.
Added - Remember if you want that SSD to perform @ manuf spec You should ONLY use about 80% of the drive. This is so Wear Leaving, Garbage Control, and TRIM can work their magic. For a 120 gig SSD is means you should LIMIT usage to approx 90 Gigs!!! Sure way to cut performance is to fill a SSD to 95% of capacity, also a 95% filled SSD will cut it's life span.
I have 16 g of ram, thanks a lot for the information. It's us a bit confusing, but guess google is my tool. Ill see what I can do. As long the d drive is safe to do so. From what I heard, other says d drive aren't meant to data just back up.
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1) so even MORE space saving by following may space saving tweaks, probably >30 gigs (16 gigs for hibernation + 6->16 gigs for virtual memory + moving files.
** Not only is statement "d is for Backup, not your data" false, If you have a single internal HDD - that should NOT be your back-up. While you can use it for some backup (ie put your Back-up image of your SSD on it), Back-ups should be on an external HDD, or other media.
PS
USE windows back-up app to image your SSD. Simple and normally only takes about 10->15 Min, But sure does save time if you have to recover from a SSD failure or a corruped windows. To recover, you just pop in the Repair disk, will be prompted to create after windows completes making the image, Select repair, then restore from image. 10->15 Minutes later you reboot to EXACTLY as it was when you made the image. NO reinstal Windows, wait for endless windows updates, NO reload drivers, NO re-install programs (Would need to re-do any changes that you made AFTER the image was created.
** Not only is statement "d is for Backup, not your data" false, If you have a single internal HDD - that should NOT be your back-up. While you can use it for some backup (ie put your Back-up image of your SSD on it), Back-ups should be on an external HDD, or other media.
PS
USE windows back-up app to image your SSD. Simple and normally only takes about 10->15 Min, But sure does save time if you have to recover from a SSD failure or a corruped windows. To recover, you just pop in the Repair disk, will be prompted to create after windows completes making the image, Select repair, then restore from image. 10->15 Minutes later you reboot to EXACTLY as it was when you made the image. NO reinstal Windows, wait for endless windows updates, NO reload drivers, NO re-install programs (Would need to re-do any changes that you made AFTER the image was created.
USAFRet :
Your friends are giving you incorrect information...
Lol more like google did, yeah guess there people who don't know what there talking about. But you guys have been helpful. Much appreciated. I did a Switch on console to pc gaming. And I'll never look back. Thanks
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For Hibernation:
1) I misquoted, apparently, windows only sets the Hiberantion system file to 75% og memory - bootom line here is that you will only save 12 gigs, not 16 gigs (f/16 gig ram).
2) My desktops have Windows 7, so no problem. Apparently when hibernation is disabled in windows 8, it ALSO disables fast startup. I'll have to check my laptop as I upgraded the win 7 -> win 8 on it.
Anyway take a look @:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html
1) I misquoted, apparently, windows only sets the Hiberantion system file to 75% og memory - bootom line here is that you will only save 12 gigs, not 16 gigs (f/16 gig ram).
2) My desktops have Windows 7, so no problem. Apparently when hibernation is disabled in windows 8, it ALSO disables fast startup. I'll have to check my laptop as I upgraded the win 7 -> win 8 on it.
Anyway take a look @:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html
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Yes. 3.95GB free on your SSD C: is not nearly enough. Especially look at your Download folder, and maybe MyDocuments. Any regular documents and files existing on the C: can be moved over.
Create a couple of new folders on the D:
Call one Downloads.
Move everything from the C:/Download to that new one. (Or copy then delete)
In your favorite browser, change the download settings to point to that new folder.
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is it just for program file? or can it be user/window or program file (x86) ?
Do all the stuff RetiredChief outlined above.
Do the things I outlined above.
That should free up major space on your SSD.
If you've redirected your download folder to somewhere on the 1TB, Firefox, Chrome, or IE...anything you d/l will go there.
When you install something new, choose Custom or Advanced, instead of Default. Point the install to somewhere on your 1TB drive.
Do all the stuff RetiredChief outlined above.
Do the things I outlined above.
That should free up major space on your SSD.
If you've redirected your download folder to somewhere on the 1TB, Firefox, Chrome, or IE...anything you d/l will go there.
When you install something new, choose Custom or Advanced, instead of Default. Point the install to somewhere on your 1TB drive.
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I feel as if we are back at step one.
You have too much crap on your SSD (C
Move some of it to the 1TB drive (D
. All the directions above are good. Poke around. You'll find it.
Just be certain of what you're moving before you do it. Do NOT move any 'program' that you have installed.
USAFRet :
I feel as if we are back at step one.
You have too much crap on your SSD (C
Move some of it to the 1TB drive (D
. All the directions above are good. Poke around. You'll find it.
Just be certain of what you're moving before you do it. Do NOT move any 'program' that you have installed.
Sorry im no experts, still getting the feels of things. Im just having a hard time finding these things. anyways thanks for the help.
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For a 109 Gig SSD, you should try for no more than 89 Gigs used (20 Gigs free).
For the "my documents folder", how to move from SSD -> HDD
READ: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/move-the-my-documents-folder-to-another-drive/a41eaabb-2c5b-4502-85ba-fd49a007fd82
For Moving temp folder, see: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/change-location-of-temp-files-folder-to-another/19f13330-dde1-404c-aa27-a76c0b450818
Folders that you created, just move to HDD. If Like me I created a folder (Directory) called Downloads on my "D" drive. when ever I down load a file I select save as and select D"\Downloads\(folder I created for different catagories, ie Hardwar, Software, ect).
For the "my documents folder", how to move from SSD -> HDD
READ: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/move-the-my-documents-folder-to-another-drive/a41eaabb-2c5b-4502-85ba-fd49a007fd82
For Moving temp folder, see: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/change-location-of-temp-files-folder-to-another/19f13330-dde1-404c-aa27-a76c0b450818
Folders that you created, just move to HDD. If Like me I created a folder (Directory) called Downloads on my "D" drive. when ever I down load a file I select save as and select D"\Downloads\(folder I created for different catagories, ie Hardwar, Software, ect).
Thanks, I was able to disable hibernating and the download file I created help me download from origin. Before I wasn't able too. Thanks alot for the help.
Quick question for the min and max mb for virtual memory? So I keep it the same? Or double he mb for max?
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You have 16 Gigs of Ram and said "So I have my min and max set at 1228mb ? Is that correct?"
Yes 1228 mb is OK (I use 1024 mb), I would set both Min and Max to the same value (DO NOT need to double max).
Yes 1228 mb is OK (I use 1024 mb), I would set both Min and Max to the same value (DO NOT need to double max).
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