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  1. Posts : 7,683
    Windows 10 Pro
       #601

    pparks1 said:
    I think he is saying he installs lots of applications that take up lots of disk space. Clearly Windows isn't using that much space...but chances are pretty good that his C:\Program Files directory is pretty large. The combined total of my program files and program files(x86) is about 5GB.
    Correct. And that's exactly what I'm saying. While I don't just istall anything, I do tend to install/keep a lot of programs/files without worrying about disk space. I also leave system restore on which is currently set to 10% (12gig)

    Even though I have a 120gig OS partition off my 1TB drive, I usually try to keep it under 60gig. That's why I say I need at least a 120gig SSD drive

    BTW my "game" drive is allocated for 493gig, and it already has 268gig of games loaded

    Like I said, I don't worry about storage space. That's me :)

    Right now I have 3 drives in my system... 1TB, 750 & 500 gig HD. When/if I get a 120 SSD, I'll replace the 750 & 500 gig drives with a 1TB drive.
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  2. Posts : 415
    W8 Pro, W7 Ultimate, XP Pro x64, Vista x64, Ubuntu
       #602

    sygnus21 said:
    I was reading some reviews on an SSD drive and ran across a post stating you should put your page file on another drive to save space. That got me wondering... wouldn't this impede performance?

    I'm of the opinion that I would want to have my page file on the fastest drive in the system.

    So, have you moved your page file to a conventional drive to save space?

    Thanks

    Here's the review on newegg by PASysBuilder.....

    Pros: Very fast. Very, very fast. Really fast. Did I mention it was fast? Be sure to put your windows page file on a traditional hard disk, disable Superfetch, disable drive indexing, disable defrag, leave 20% of the space unallocated, and DON'T BENCH CONSTANTLY. This will prolong the life of the drive.
    Customer Reviews Of OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

    The article in "Engineering Windows" entitled "Support and Q&A for Solid-State Drives"
    Support and Q&A for Solid-State Drives - Engineering Windows 7 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs has this to say about the pagefile:

    Should the pagefile be placed on SSDs?
    Yes.
    Most pagefile operations are small random reads or larger sequential writes, both of which are types of operations that SSDs handle well.
    In looking at telemetry data from thousands of traces and focusing on pagefile reads and writes, we find that
    Pagefile.sys reads outnumber pagefile.sys writes by about 40 to 1,
    Pagefile.sys read sizes are typically quite small, with 67% less than or equal to 4 KB, and 88% less than 16 KB.
    Pagefile.sys writes are relatively large, with 62% greater than or equal to 128 KB and 45% being exactly 1 MB in size.
    In fact, given typical pagefile reference patterns and the favorable performance characteristics SSDs have on those patterns, there are few files better than the pagefile to place on an SSD.

    I've been going with that advice for the 2 years or so that I've been running SSDs.
    Tom
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  3. Posts : 7,683
    Windows 10 Pro
       #603

    That's some pretty good info :)

    Thanks
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  4. Posts : 12,177
    Windows 7 Ult x64 - SP1/ Windows 8 Pro x64
       #604

    I have a 40GB SSD, disabled hibernation, page file reduced to 500MB (8GB RAM) and kept it on the SSD, system restore off (keep a lot of backups), used space 16GB.
    Keep everything except programs on a HDD.


    FYI, OCZ Agility 2 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive, on sale today $238
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  5. Posts : 3,822
    Windows10 Pro - 64Bit vs.10547
       #605

    Bare Foot Kid said:
    BugMeister said:
    Bare Foot Kid said:



    Too bad mate!
    had some good news, they're going to replace it with a Vertex..

    - can't wait..


    Glad to 'hear' it.
    - even better - it's a Vertex2..!!
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  6. Posts : 3,822
    Windows10 Pro - 64Bit vs.10547
       #606



    blimey, it's a screamer..!!
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  7. Posts : 12,177
    Windows 7 Ult x64 - SP1/ Windows 8 Pro x64
       #607

    Lucky you

    The Vertex 2 is top of the line, according to several review sites.

    The HD Tune looks very nice.

    Did you run the AS SSD benchmark?
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  8. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #608

    My 16 months old Vertex does not do quite as well. It is slightly under 200 - but that is still good enough for me.
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  9. Posts : 7,878
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #609

    whs said:
    My 16 months old Vertex does not do quite as well. It is slightly under 200 - but that is still good enough for me.
    The sequential reads and writes aren't necessarily what's important with SSD drives...especially for the OS. It's the random I/O and the extremely low access times which make them shine.
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  10. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #610

    pparks1 said:
    whs said:
    My 16 months old Vertex does not do quite as well. It is slightly under 200 - but that is still good enough for me.
    The sequential reads and writes aren't necessarily what's important with SSD drives...especially for the OS. It's the random I/O and the extremely low access times which make them shine.
    True, but all my SSDs (OCZ and Intel) have an access time of 0.1ms. I only distinguish them by the sequentiel reads.
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