- Jun 24, 2008
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Hi, I'm thinking about buying this tomorrow since there's a sale.
I have read extensively about SSDs and decided that most tricks are probably not worth it, I'll just set the torrent folders to the storage HDD and move my documents folders there, without changing the location of the user folder, and I'll not mess around with the paging file, indexer, superfetch etc. since the instructions are complicated and it appears it's only for the anal retentive.
Questions
1. I have an asus p5p77d (sata 2), BIOS was never flashed. I can't seem to find if it supports AHCI.
More in general: does it support TRIM?
2. I have a CM690, can I just leave the SSD hanging in a drive bay or is it dangerous and I need the bracket, or will paper scotch tape hold?
Here's the system:
3. I have windows 7 installed on a 500 GB HDD which will become the secondary drive.
I've read about horrible things happening, such as the boot file being on the secondary drive, or people not being able to delete the windows folder after, or invisible OS partitions remaining.
Which road should I take?
a. remove HDD, insert SSD, install OS, reinsert HDD and delete windows folders
b. same as above but leave the HDD in all along
c. backup the files and format both drives
I want the secondary drive to be exclusively about data and big not-often-used installed software, I want to be able to remove it without causing changes in system behaviour.
4. Do I have to enable AHCI before doing any installation? I think it's deactivated right now.
5. is it important in which sata port the hdd and ssd are installed? I know to avoid the marvell ones but apart for that I've not noticed any ordering, but I've read it may be important.
Thanks for your help.
I have read extensively about SSDs and decided that most tricks are probably not worth it, I'll just set the torrent folders to the storage HDD and move my documents folders there, without changing the location of the user folder, and I'll not mess around with the paging file, indexer, superfetch etc. since the instructions are complicated and it appears it's only for the anal retentive.
Questions
1. I have an asus p5p77d (sata 2), BIOS was never flashed. I can't seem to find if it supports AHCI.
More in general: does it support TRIM?
2. I have a CM690, can I just leave the SSD hanging in a drive bay or is it dangerous and I need the bracket, or will paper scotch tape hold?
Here's the system:
3. I have windows 7 installed on a 500 GB HDD which will become the secondary drive.
I've read about horrible things happening, such as the boot file being on the secondary drive, or people not being able to delete the windows folder after, or invisible OS partitions remaining.
Which road should I take?
a. remove HDD, insert SSD, install OS, reinsert HDD and delete windows folders
b. same as above but leave the HDD in all along
c. backup the files and format both drives
I want the secondary drive to be exclusively about data and big not-often-used installed software, I want to be able to remove it without causing changes in system behaviour.
4. Do I have to enable AHCI before doing any installation? I think it's deactivated right now.
5. is it important in which sata port the hdd and ssd are installed? I know to avoid the marvell ones but apart for that I've not noticed any ordering, but I've read it may be important.
Thanks for your help.
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