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Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 15 9:14 am Post subject: SS hard drives
son #2 has a desktop PC, which he uses for gaming. He's said he'd like to add a SS/SSHD so certain games load and run quicker. Is this likely to be correct? If so, do they add in just like a regular HD? He can, presumably have it as a second HD, no need to move the OS over, and such? Of is that advisable, and simple, anyway? If that's all correct, thoughts on brands, and specification, please?

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 15 10:44 am Post subject:
Load quicker? Yes. Run faster? Possibly, if the application does a lot of read writes to disk. More memory is the short cut to better performance. Straight swap with a like for like with a hard drive e.g. SATA. Last ones I bought were from Cricial M4 disks I believe but that was some while ago.

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 15 12:22 pm Post subject:
I love SSD'S, mine made a massive difference to my aging Macbook Pro, you can make them the primary drive or have them as the secondary, just depends on what OS you are using, if you are doing a fresh install definitely make the primary drive. Mine was bought from eBuyer, they have loads of deals

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 15 2:29 pm Post subject:
I'm not doing a fresh install. It would be a secondary drive, unless that didn't make sense. Windows 7

vegplot

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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 15 2:41 pm Post subject:
You'll get better (more noticeable) performance improvements if it's the main OS disk.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 15 3:12 pm Post subject:
Don't suppose I can just copy and paste the whole of C: can I?

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 15 4:15 pm Post subject:
You might want to do something like this then https://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid-state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Sat Mar 28, 15 4:48 pm Post subject:
Thanks. Birthday is end of April. I shall be yelling for help shortly after, I imagine.

Nick

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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 2:09 pm Post subject:
240gig drive plugged into a spare SATA slot on the mobo,has power. Can be seen in Device Manager, but not shown as a hard drive in My Computer. I've created one large partition and ntfs formatted the ssd from a prompt, but it still cannot be seen as a usable drive. I have multiple SATA sockets on the mobo, does it matter which I use?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 2:35 pm Post subject:
and i was thinking LTDF

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 2:41 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

I have multiple SATA sockets on the mobo, does it matter which I use?

No.

You need Computer Management>Disk Management, it should appear there as an unallocated drive, you can partition it there.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 2:50 pm Post subject:
It had a partition, just needed to be called E: I thought Windows did that automatically.

tahir

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Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 2:56 pm Post subject:

Nick wrote:

I thought Windows did that automatically.

Only for USB

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 3:04 pm Post subject:
Blimey. How on earth does he fill 700gb of memory? What on earth am I going to find...

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Tue Jun 02, 15 3:21 pm Post subject:
Does he know you're looking?

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