Ok so I started a thread asking about sata ports burning out a few days ago. My computer took a huge dump on me suddenly one day. Everything taking 10-20x longer to load. A simple boot took an easy 15 minutes lol. My computer is about 5 years old still running vista. And messing around with it some I noticed a slight increase in speed when I changed the drives to another sata port. Well this morning it crashed. Saying something like 0xc000000f is corrupt or missing. Luckily I have a new SSD and Win7 on the way figuring I knew it was either my HDD or Windows. Hope its not my sata ports or I'm still gonna be up <LANGUAGE> creek.
Anyhow I think I have the fix on the way.. Arrives tommarow. I bought a Samsung 840 evo 250gb. My system is an old core i7 920 , Asus p6t mono, 6gb ram. So I know its gonna run at sata 2 speeds, but from what I've read here I shouldn't noticed that much difference. Still several times faster than my 7200 rpm HDD. I'm excited!! I keep hearing the words "huge upgrade, big difference " so I can't wait to see it. HDD I know but this is my first SSD. Through research tells me I gotta switch bios sata to AHCI? And some say I should enable trim? I donno what either of those are.. could someone explain? And maybe if there are any other things I need to know about an SSD? Heard somewhere about page file.
I Dont do anything major with my computer.. Couple of games.. Web browsing at most. I built the computer as a workhorse several years ago but family man with kids now so its turning into a family computer.. Soon HTPC/kids computer when I build my new one.
SSD wise.... What's everything I need to know basicly. Thanks!
Anyhow I think I have the fix on the way.. Arrives tommarow. I bought a Samsung 840 evo 250gb. My system is an old core i7 920 , Asus p6t mono, 6gb ram. So I know its gonna run at sata 2 speeds, but from what I've read here I shouldn't noticed that much difference. Still several times faster than my 7200 rpm HDD. I'm excited!! I keep hearing the words "huge upgrade, big difference " so I can't wait to see it. HDD I know but this is my first SSD. Through research tells me I gotta switch bios sata to AHCI? And some say I should enable trim? I donno what either of those are.. could someone explain? And maybe if there are any other things I need to know about an SSD? Heard somewhere about page file.
I Dont do anything major with my computer.. Couple of games.. Web browsing at most. I built the computer as a workhorse several years ago but family man with kids now so its turning into a family computer.. Soon HTPC/kids computer when I build my new one.
SSD wise.... What's everything I need to know basicly. Thanks!
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