ssd help needed
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Dereck47
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64GB is small for a C: drive.
After formatting you will only have around 59GB available. Windows 7 takes around 20GB after the install and all of the updates. So if you get a 64GB drive it will be almost half full before you install any programs or games to it.
Probably best to just save up until you can afford to buy a 120GB or larger SSD.
After formatting you will only have around 59GB available. Windows 7 takes around 20GB after the install and all of the updates. So if you get a 64GB drive it will be almost half full before you install any programs or games to it.
Probably best to just save up until you can afford to buy a 120GB or larger SSD.
gregbattis
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147193
look at the 128gb one. this is the best in the business for the price, performance, life and just about everything else.
look at the 128gb one. this is the best in the business for the price, performance, life and just about everything else.
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An SSD will greatly improve your boot times, as it will your searching and retrieving data within your OS drive. It will effect the load times of software including games but will not effect your in game performance at all. When it comes to transferring data from one drive to another, you'll be limited by the speed of the slowest drive in the equation...
64GB will be fine as long as you don't have too many programs installed on your C: drive at any one time and you don't mind keeping most of your personal files on another drive. For large programs, such as games, you might find it seriously cramped.
Windows uses a function called Pagefile, which some turn off and others insist that you shouldn't. Basically what it does is uses a portion of your hard drive as virtual memory but you can google it for more information. The more memory (RAM) you have installed in your computer, the more C: drive space windows will set aside for pagefile. So if you only have a small amount of RAM, you will only have a small pagefile space but if you have a lot of RAM, your pagefile space will be huge (you can't actually see it though, it just takes up space on your drive). You can manually set the amount of space set aside for pagefile but you need to consider how much RAM you actually use first. Basically the way it is works is that when your RAM becomes full, windows uses the pagefile space on your C: as virtual RAM. Your computer will slow right down (RAM is much much faster than any SSD, or than SATA will handle) but it won't crash. If you turn pagefile of entirely then your system will crash when (if) you run out of RAM for the software to run. Typically gaming won't go above 8GB of RAM but there is something new going on in BF4 (I'm pretty sure, might be another new game) that will actually use more, so that may not be a rule for long. To date though, I think that's the only game that can go above 8GB. Anyway, pagefile is really a throwback to the old days when RAM sticks were very small in capacity, there are very few programs that actually look for it to run (I think some versions of photoshop still need it and I'm sure a couple more). If you have enough RAM to comfortably handle what you use it for, then you can minimise the size of pagefile space that windows allocates on your C: drive but you have to do it manually, after install. From memory (my memory) a windows installation with 500MB pagefile space takes up more like 12GB of disk space but that is just off the top of my head. It's definitely a space saver but not something I'd advise if you have less than 8GB of RAM. Others might though, shop around hahaha
You can also install programs or games onto your second HDD - you just won't benefit from SSD speeds when you use those programs. It's a handy option if you can't be bothered uninstalling and reinstalling games constantly but like having fast boot and restart times. I should also mention though, that install and uninstall times are also greatly improved with an SSD.
If your Motherboard supports it (most newish ones do) you could opt instead to use the 64GB drive for SSD caching. Again, google it for more info but basically what you'll get is a much more responsive system than you currently have, while having the same C: that you currently have. It will be a noticeable performance increase but not as fast as using an SSD for your OS drive.
64GB will be fine as long as you don't have too many programs installed on your C: drive at any one time and you don't mind keeping most of your personal files on another drive. For large programs, such as games, you might find it seriously cramped.
Windows uses a function called Pagefile, which some turn off and others insist that you shouldn't. Basically what it does is uses a portion of your hard drive as virtual memory but you can google it for more information. The more memory (RAM) you have installed in your computer, the more C: drive space windows will set aside for pagefile. So if you only have a small amount of RAM, you will only have a small pagefile space but if you have a lot of RAM, your pagefile space will be huge (you can't actually see it though, it just takes up space on your drive). You can manually set the amount of space set aside for pagefile but you need to consider how much RAM you actually use first. Basically the way it is works is that when your RAM becomes full, windows uses the pagefile space on your C: as virtual RAM. Your computer will slow right down (RAM is much much faster than any SSD, or than SATA will handle) but it won't crash. If you turn pagefile of entirely then your system will crash when (if) you run out of RAM for the software to run. Typically gaming won't go above 8GB of RAM but there is something new going on in BF4 (I'm pretty sure, might be another new game) that will actually use more, so that may not be a rule for long. To date though, I think that's the only game that can go above 8GB. Anyway, pagefile is really a throwback to the old days when RAM sticks were very small in capacity, there are very few programs that actually look for it to run (I think some versions of photoshop still need it and I'm sure a couple more). If you have enough RAM to comfortably handle what you use it for, then you can minimise the size of pagefile space that windows allocates on your C: drive but you have to do it manually, after install. From memory (my memory) a windows installation with 500MB pagefile space takes up more like 12GB of disk space but that is just off the top of my head. It's definitely a space saver but not something I'd advise if you have less than 8GB of RAM. Others might though, shop around hahaha
You can also install programs or games onto your second HDD - you just won't benefit from SSD speeds when you use those programs. It's a handy option if you can't be bothered uninstalling and reinstalling games constantly but like having fast boot and restart times. I should also mention though, that install and uninstall times are also greatly improved with an SSD.
If your Motherboard supports it (most newish ones do) you could opt instead to use the 64GB drive for SSD caching. Again, google it for more info but basically what you'll get is a much more responsive system than you currently have, while having the same C: that you currently have. It will be a noticeable performance increase but not as fast as using an SSD for your OS drive.
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