Can I install My OS on an SSD plugged into a SATA3 PCI Express Card?

Thanks for the info guys!

Britton30 said:

Degradation isn't a worry, the site ignatz referred to they used several SSD and I think the first failed only after something in the neighborhood a petabytes had been written, which would be several years of ordinary use. TRIM and garbage collection and better controllers make SSDs much more tolerant to write/erase cycles.

Of course the best use of SSD is to load the OS and most used apps on it and put your Users file and AppData on a separate HDD.

Yeah when I get one I plan just to install the O/S and programs. All my user files will be kept on my spinners. I've got two western digitals set up as a RAID 0 array. I'll probably remove the RAID setup though once I've migrated Windows to SSD.

So typically, how much does a Win 7 system need as far as SSD memory and how much do you allow as a margin. Page drive on the spinners or??

64GB SSD would hold windows no problem. My windows partition is 64GB on my spinner at the moment. Although I may opt for slightly bigger as I plan to install more and have some Virtual Machines set up too. I always keep my pagefile on the same drive as Windows myself.

Burdus77 said:

64GB SSD would hold windows no problem. My windows partition is 64GB on my spinner at the moment. Although I may opt for slightly bigger as I plan to install more and have some Virtual Machines set up too. I always keep my pagefile on the same drive as Windows myself.

OK Great. I have been thinking about this for a while. 128GB M4 is about $125US and that is within range. :) Generating an image and recovery will take minutes.

meebers said:

Burdus77 said:

64GB SSD would hold windows no problem. My windows partition is 64GB on my spinner at the moment. Although I may opt for slightly bigger as I plan to install more and have some Virtual Machines set up too. I always keep my pagefile on the same drive as Windows myself.

OK Great. I have been thinking about this for a while. 128GB M4 is about $125US and that is within range. :) Generating an image and recovery will take minutes.

Yeah, I'm looking at either the M4 or the Samsung 830. Both seem pretty good.

Burdus77 said:

Yes looking forward to getting an SSD. I've looked at some comparisons on YouTube and even running on a SATA 2 board it's still much quicker than a spinner.

Only thing that does concern me is people saying that performance can degrade over time and the only thing to do is to completely erase it. Seems like a lot more hard work than defragging a spinner!

Windows 7 supports TRIM, which is supposed to eliminate the need to refresh SSDs. I believe that it requires that the SATA controller be run in AHCI mode.

TRIM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

bobkn said:

Burdus77 said:

Yes looking forward to getting an SSD. I've looked at some comparisons on YouTube and even running on a SATA 2 board it's still much quicker than a spinner.

Only thing that does concern me is people saying that performance can degrade over time and the only thing to do is to completely erase it. Seems like a lot more hard work than defragging a spinner!

Windows 7 supports TRIM, which is supposed to eliminate the need to refresh SSDs. I believe that it requires that the SATA controller be run in AHCI mode.

TRIM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hello bobkn,

When I boot up my bios says it is an AHCI BIOS, I can only find two options in the bios for Sata and they are RAID On, and RAID Autodetect/ATA.

Does this mean my board is already set up for AHCI if it's set to RAID ON?

Hello whs,

You have your pagefile set at 2GB? How much ram do you have installed?