256gb indilinx drive and win7, anything I shouldn't do?

[faxon]

So I overnighted a supertalent 256gb drive, and it arived this morning. I'm going to image my velociraptor to it when I get home and then do a win7 upgrade install. I will have a 60gb os partition and a 170gb apps partition on the drive, with the rest left free for performance reasons in the case tha the drive starts to fill up. So, did I miss anything? I know win7 auto detects SSDs so it doesn't defrag them, but it feels like I'm forgetting something. Also, how do I go about checking which firmware my drive has, so I make sure I have one which supports TRIM. Thanks in advance, I would check myself but I'm at work on my iPhone and it isn't really practical

 

[TemjinGold]

Err... I hope you know you'll end up with about 10 gigs free if that's your plan...

 

[faxon]

Err... I hope you know you'll end up with about 10 gigs free if that's your plan...

yea i have heard mixed numbers on what people think is the best amount of space to leave unformatted. i made the thread so that people could point out noob mistakes i was making

 

[wwswimming]

it seems like the PCI-Express SSD's make a good complement to the 2 1/2" SSD's.

good article at Tom's -
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fusion-io-ioxtreme-ssd,2488.html

i'd be happy to wait a year for the prices to come down.

what's the right term for the non-PCI-Express SSD's, the "normal" kind ?

 

[Voo]

what's the right term for the non-pci-express ssd's, the "normal" kind ?

sata?