Posted: 12/16/2011 5:24:01 AM EDT
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Can anyone recommend a good reliable SSD drive at a reasonable price? Considering asking my fiancee to get me one for Christmas since I can't think of anything else and she doesn't know what to get me.
I haven't kept with the latest hardware lately so I'm not sure which ones are good and which ones to stay away from. |
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Cool. I did that with my new machine, holy crap is it fast.
I have that new Windows 7 machine on a KVM with my old Vista dual core 3.1 ghz/4 gb DDR2. The KVM switching software is loaded in the desktop start menu startup folder. I turn the old machine on first, then the new one. I log in on the new one and "wait" for the desktop and KVM listener to load, and then I hit the keyboard combo to switch to the old machine. And the old machine will not yet have reached the login screen by that point. The new one is just screaming fast. On the other hand, 30 GB was a mistake, I'm already using 27 GB on that boot drive with an entirely stripped install. The windows folder alone is 23+. So get at least a 60 or 80, and still install every possible app to your data drive. |
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Cool. I did that with my new machine, holy crap is it fast. I have that new Windows 7 machine on a KVM with my old Vista dual core 3.1 ghz/4 gb DDR2. The KVM switching software is loaded in the desktop start menu startup folder. I turn the old machine on first, then the new one. I log in on the new one and "wait" for the desktop and KVM listener to load, and then I hit the keyboard combo to switch to the old machine. And the old machine will not yet have reached the login screen by that point. The new one is just screaming fast. On the other hand, 30 GB was a mistake, I'm already using 27 GB on that boot drive with an entirely stripped install. The windows folder alone is 23+. So get at least a 60 or 80, and still install every possible app to your data drive. You should disable the hybernate function. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html My windows folder is 14.9 Gigs. |
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Cool. I did that with my new machine, holy crap is it fast. I have that new Windows 7 machine on a KVM with my old Vista dual core 3.1 ghz/4 gb DDR2. The KVM switching software is loaded in the desktop start menu startup folder. I turn the old machine on first, then the new one. I log in on the new one and "wait" for the desktop and KVM listener to load, and then I hit the keyboard combo to switch to the old machine. And the old machine will not yet have reached the login screen by that point. The new one is just screaming fast. On the other hand, 30 GB was a mistake, I'm already using 27 GB on that boot drive with an entirely stripped install. The windows folder alone is 23+. So get at least a 60 or 80, and still install every possible app to your data drive. You should disable the hybernate function. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html My windows folder is 14.9 Gigs. Already did, did again, still 24.0 gigs for the windows folder. That SXS directory is a killer. I've heard that it's imaginary in that the file references are all pointers, but that doesn't seem to matter if the OS is convinced that it's out of space. |
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Can anyone recommend a good reliable SSD drive at a reasonable price? Considering asking my fiancee to get me one for Christmas since I can't think of anything else and she doesn't know what to get me. I haven't kept with the latest hardware lately so I'm not sure which ones are good and which ones to stay away from. intel 320 or 510 series (510 if your laptop has sata 3.0 (6 Gbit/s) ports). |