|
|
Post by alexham36 on Aug 18, 2015 13:10:22 GMT
I have ordered a 240GB SSD entirely on impulse and because it appeared a bargain at £50. It is an internal SATA drive and, allegedly, 20 times faster than "normal HDs!! I intend to install Windows 10 on that drive, having previously unplugged all my other HDs to make sure that Windows 10 does not interfere with my pet OSs like PCLinuxOS, Puppy and Windows7. Are solid state drives treated like ordinary drives as regards formatting, partitioning and OS installation?
Many thanks,
Alex
|
|
|
|
Post by jojo on Aug 18, 2015 13:27:01 GMT
Yep.
Faster. More stable. All round a better product.
There are stories of limited life, but these are strangely reminiscent of stories of limited life of Disc Drives. I've had some DDs lasting a couple of years, others, 10 years.
I have three SSDs. Though at £50 that is a bargain. Would appreciate the source.
Needless to say, backups of data are still an absolute must.
|
|
|
|
Post by alexham36 on Aug 18, 2015 15:47:59 GMT
jojo, here is the link and for what it is worth it comes with 3 year warranty. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00S9Q9VS4/ref=pe_385721_37986871_TE_itemThe only personal data that I want to safeguard are the emails and the address book. I use Mozilla Thunderbird as email client and I have changed thunderbird.ini so that Thunderbird in Win7 uses the same default file as the thunderbird in WinXP, which is on another HD. I'll do the same as soon as I install Windows 10. That means that should the SSD fail I will lose nothing. |
|
|
|
Post by vikingken on Aug 19, 2015 21:07:35 GMT
I have a 1 TB SSD in my laptop Alex and 500 GB SSD in my mini netbook. Treat them the same as a HDD, except dont defragment them. When you install a system, Windows should automatically shut off the defrag, but remember to check it. I tried a hybrid drive when they first came out, what a waste of money that was. My main computer has a 500 GB 10,000 rpm HDD, with the boot sector on a small SSD. This is basically the same as a hybrid, but it works. I originally had 2 x 500 10,000 rpm GB HDDs, set up as a suicide RAID 0 array. Now it works just as fast with the single drive, as proved with the Windows Index and much safer than the RAID 0. If one drive fails with a RAID 0, you lose all the DATA. Now the second drive is a backup for the /C drive.
|
|
|
|
Post by alexham36 on Aug 22, 2015 11:20:56 GMT
Thank you vikingken. Very useful to know what to expect. I unplugged all my HDs and connected the SSD just to see what happens. The BIOS recognized it instantly and I tried installing Win7 64bit from a previously unused DVD. Installation proceeded OK, but I expected to be asked to partition the drive and that did not happen, so I aborted the installation. Any idea how to partition the SSD?
Thanks,
Alex
|
|
|
|
Post by jojo on Aug 22, 2015 12:32:56 GMT
I didn't. I just formatted.
I think it's all pretty automatic now, unless you want special partitions.
Could you try letting the installation DVD run its course? Or is it definitely not working due to partition?
|
|
|
|
Post by alexham36 on Aug 22, 2015 13:43:05 GMT
I didn't. I just formatted. Could you try letting the installation DVD run its course? Or is it definitely not working due to partition? Installation was working, but I did not want the OS to occupy the whole of the 240GB disc, because if it crashed all of the personal data could be lost. |
|
|
|
Post by jojo on Aug 22, 2015 15:21:24 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by vikingken on Aug 22, 2015 21:28:40 GMT
When installing, you can click on Options and partition the drive. The other way is to install on the entire drive. Once you have booted into Windows, right click on Computer and click on Manage. Select Drive Management, right click on the C/ drive and shrink it down. Then the free space can be formatted as another drive.
They say you shouldn't copy a HDD to a SSD, the difference in how they work causes problems. Naturally I have copied HDDs to SSDs just to see what happens. I always run Check Disk after copying and so far have never had a single problem. I have also done it the other way round and not had any bother with that either. If copying a HDD to a smaller SSD, use Drive Management to shrink the C/ drive down to a size smaller than the SSD before copying. You can then use Drive Management to expand the C/ to use all of the SSD. |
|
