Posted: 11/29/2013 7:06:53 AM EDT
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I'm currently running a 128gb SSD on which I have my OS and, well, pretty much everything else. Now, I'm constantly having to delete stuff because the drive is running almost at capacity all the time.
I just bought another SSD, a 256gb version. Now running both of them in RAID 0 makes no sense because I'd only have 256gb split on two drives instead of just one. I think I have two options, right? 1. Copy everything on the bigger SSD and run everything off of it, including OS. 2. Keep the OS my smaller SSD and run everything else off the bigger one. Thing is I have no clue how to proceed from here, whether it's copying everything or transferring everything but the OS. |
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Just remember with RAID 0 you have two failure points instead of one. One drive of that pair dies and your data is toast. Just spend the money and get one single larger SSD.
*Edit* In a two drive scenario just use the smaller for the OS and programs and larger secondary drive for data. |
| I found that SSD is really bad with OS running on it, have ruined a few, granted they weren't all that great to start with. From what I have learned, SSD is great for writing once to and just accessing, the OS write small bits of info each time you start it up, and that corrupts the SSD faster, I use my SSD for games, that only write when something is saved or there is an update, and use a Hybrid 750gb for my OS and everything else. Keep the 256 get rid of the 128 and get yourself the Seagate 1tb hybrid with 32gb internal ssd and 64mb of buffer on it, you will not see as fast a startup on the OS but it will be faster than with a standard hdd. You see similar loading times of most programs, but if you do a lot of photo or video editing, install those on the ssd and have the work saved on the hybrid. Just what I have learned, there might have been some changes to the ssd's as of late, but there fundamental drawback is that the memory still corrupts after repeated write and rewrite to them. |
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Use the small one for OS and the large one for games /this I use an SSD drive for the OS and put everything else onto a RAID set of spinning disk. My first SSD drive is used as a scratch disk for incoming raw HD video and high bit rate audio before editing down. |
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If you're running out of space on your OS+programs/games SSD then either you can do the usual Windows tweaks to free up space, and/or add a secondary HDD in to take over storing some stuff, or get a bigger ssd, or start uninstalling stuff you don't absolutely need. I went the SSD+HDD route. I have my SSD for OS+Programs, windows ssd tweaks performed, games/file storage/temp files/caching/etc on the HDD. Some of those tweaks include reducing writes windows performs to the SSD, moving windows/firefox/chrome/etc temp files/caching/etc to a secondary hdd, and so on. With a full Win 7 Ultimate x64 install, up to date, with a ton of programs I maintain around 34gb usage on the SSD. You can also either run CCleaner once in a while or schedule it to run whenever. There are a lot of useless temp files, old installers, old windows update files, logs, caches, etc that build up over time that can consume a substantial amount of storage space. |
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/this I use an SSD drive for the OS and put everything else onto a RAID set of spinning disk. My first SSD drive is used as a scratch disk for incoming raw HD video and high bit rate audio before editing down. Quoted:
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Use the small one for OS and the large one for games /this I use an SSD drive for the OS and put everything else onto a RAID set of spinning disk. My first SSD drive is used as a scratch disk for incoming raw HD video and high bit rate audio before editing down. K, so how do I copy everything but the OS on my new SSD? |
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#2. in my computer (I don't have SSD's yet, I still don't trust them) I run 2 raptors in raid 0. I install my OS and frequently used programs to that array. all of my work, pictures, videos, movies, etc... are stored on a raid 1 array (plain 2tb drives)
I reformat my computer a couple times a year as is (viruses, registry errors, etc). having nothing but windows and a few programs that I can easily re-download makes life easy. also keeps the drive cleaner - which means faster. Quoted:
K, so how do I copy everything but the OS on my new SSD? turn off computer, plug second hard drive in to one of your other sata ports, turn computer on, make sure it boots to the old hard drive, install drivers for the new drive if need be, reboot, then manually drag everything you want on the new drive over. |