Help / Advices on SSD.

Thank you everyone for all the help I need.

I'll do some reading up again for the installations of SSD but otherwise I think I am ready to go get those parts. Once again, thank you.

whs said:

I run several desktops with 60GB SSDs and never had a space problem (although I have a LOT of programs installed - no games though).

I put all my user files on the HDD, reduce the pagefile to 2GB and get rid of the hiberfile. Other than that there is nothing else required.

If you have large games, you might want to direct them to the HDD also. Only games that make a frequent acces to the disk may be better on the SSD.

I have a 60GB, the only problem I see with programs and such installed is dual booting. After format my drive (OCZ) comes out to 55GB. After imaging the OS via Windows Home Server 2011, I had 12GB left (now 15GB). I had shrunk down my original HD image down to 45GB so it would install on the SSD.

On a new install, it would be roughly 40GB free since this is W7 32-bit (16GB before updates/SP1). Anyway if I wanted to dual boot with say Windows 8, I don't have enough free space and no idea where to pare it down anymore.

I am trying to save for other things but I am seriously considering adding a second OCZ Agility 3 in RAID 0 to double the capacity. Data lost concerns are zero = WHS 2011

1337 said:

Thank you everyone for all the help I need.

I'll do some reading up again for the installations of SSD but otherwise I think I am ready to go get those parts. Once again, thank you.

Its easy if its W7-64 bit, you can install from the Windows DVD inside the UEFI, there's a tutorial on the web site. Doing it with a flash drive (windows installs faster from a flash drive), read that tutorial if you're considering that.

It can get a bunch more complicated from that point with custom iso's that will allow for unattended installs and the like but installing into an ssd is no different than on a regular drive, Windows will detect its an ssd and turn off page file and other features that may shorten the life of an ssd.

Thank you everyone for the help, I have purchased the parts and everything is working. SSD is running fine and followed all of the instructions given by members. Thanks.

pcunite said:

the trick is to turn off the page file

I've asked before, so I'll try again. Please stop telling people to turn off their pagefile. Horrible idea. I'm imploring you to stop spreading such bad advice.

whs said:

3. get rid of the SP1 backups in winsxs. The command is DISM /online /Cleanup-Image /SpSuperseded

Does that include systems that were installed using an SP1-incorporated disc, or only systems that were eventually upgraded to SP1?

DeaconFrost said:

whs said:

3. get rid of the SP1 backups in winsxs. The command is DISM /online /Cleanup-Image /SpSuperseded

Does that include systems that were installed using an SP1-incorporated disc, or only systems that were eventually upgraded to SP1?

I upgraded to SP1 manually.

I ran that command yesterday out of curiosity and the response was that no such files were found.

But---I may have manually deleted those files previously by some other means----I can't recall.