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Fanatical Meat

Fanatical Meat

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And holy fast start up time. I was on the fence due to my system's age (Q9650 8GB) however I was wrong completely worth the money.
Should I enable anything in windows 8.1 pro to care for the drive? Its a crucial M500 or maybe a M100.
 
Windows 8 will manage it by default so no worries. That first time jump to a ssd is the most dramatic and well worth the money. Enjoy your new drive.
 
I was using a Q6600 with 8GB DDR2 about a year ago and it was running great with an SSD, it was slow as molasses with an HDD, but the SSD gave it new life for sure. You still might want to start setting aside some $ for a full upgrade down the line, but you will probably be fine for awhile yet now that you have an SSD.
 
It's funny how much of a difference an SSD can make in an older system. I put an SSD in my daughter's old 2-core AMD laptop and it was almost like a new laptop after... taking it from a almost unusable dog that took 3 minutes to boot to a 30 second boot and an entirely useable computer. ...bonus is you can take it with you to the next computer!
 
Just take note that SSD drives fail as fast as they work. That is, there usually is no warning and the cost for professional data recovery is higher than traditional hard drives. So, play safe and backup.
 
Great point I was just going to ask.....
I did a clean windows install however my old mechanical drive still has windows loaded on it. I haven't connected it to the motherboard yet. If I reconnect it will it cause a problem & how do I delete everything & reformat it?
 
Fanatical Meat said:
Great point I was just going to ask.....
I did a clean windows install however my old mechanical drive still has windows loaded on it. I haven't connected it to the motherboard yet. If I reconnect it will it cause a problem & how do I delete everything & reformat it?
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just make sure you change your boot priority in the BIOS and it wont boot to the HDD, then once you are in windows you can reformat/reassign drive path using disk management.
 
RecoveryForce said:
Just take note that SSD drives fail as fast as they work. That is, there usually is no warning and the cost for professional data recovery is higher than traditional hard drives. So, play safe and backup.
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Because he is correct, what I did with my SSD install is to make the leftover HDD the backup drive for nightly Acronis drive backups. I HAVE had my primary OS SSD fail suddenly and completely... the only thing that saved my bacon was my Acronis backup images.
 
I remember when I bought my first SSD(s). I was quite a holdout for some time, while the early-adopters on this forum were persistent in their praise of SSDs.

TBH, I don't run a lot of junk on startup or in the background, like OEM machines do, so I was pretty happy with a decent HDD.

What really sold me on SSDs, was the objective, quantifiable performance difference with things like MalwareBytes scans. Going from 15min where you really can't do much else with the machine due to heavy disk I/O, to 2-3min where you can still web browse and run other programs without much slowdown, was wonderful progress.

And I wasn't even using a "fast" SSD, my first few were 30GB OCZ Agility. I still didn't trust the technology very much, so I wanted drives that were able to be de-bricked by the end-user.
 
RecoveryForce said:
Just take note that SSD drives fail as fast as they work. That is, there usually is no warning and the cost for professional data recovery is higher than traditional hard drives. So, play safe and backup.
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You can't make a blanket statement like "SSD drives fail as fast as they work". The failure mode highly depends on the drive in question. For a discussion of failure modes, check out Tech Reports SSD Endurance Test. There are SMART indicators for failure like the Media Wearout Indicator (MWI) and the usual reallocated sectors counter.

Of course, any storage media can fail and you should always keep backups. However, that holds equally true for HDDs and SSDs.
 
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