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Good SSD for a starter?

i've squeezed down a win7 install to about 10GB, by disabling the pagefile and hibernation

i have an original 60GB agility and it started getting a touch noticeably slower when it got more than half full
 
Never ever disable the pagefile. Shrink it, maybe, but don't disable. Disabling it can cause crashes.

Hibernation is pretty pointless with an SSD, so disabling it is fine.
 
fffblackmage said:
Never ever disable the pagefile. Shrink it, maybe, but don't disable. Disabling it can cause crashes.

Hibernation is pretty pointless with an SSD, so disabling it is fine.
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Depends what you use hibernation for, eh? I don't use it only to save on restart time. It saves the state of all the stuff I was working on so I can resume the next day with minimal fuss.
 
That vertex 2 at 109 actually looks pretty nice! I say go for it! I am tempted to make that my next upgrade. Damn you!
 
eflat123 said:
Depends what you use hibernation for, eh? I don't use it only to save on restart time. It saves the state of all the stuff I was working on so I can resume the next day with minimal fuss.
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Hibernation isn't normally recommended for SSDs, because saving ram to the SSD causes wear on the flash memory. Alternatively, you can also use sleep/standby.
 
fffblackmage said:
Never ever disable the pagefile. Shrink it, maybe, but don't disable. Disabling it can cause crashes.
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well so they say, but my computers have been ok
lots of things users here do are not good for stability like overclocking, unlock cores/gpus etc.

i don't do any real work on my personal computers anyways, the worst thing is my facebook and email might crash lol.
 
eflat123 said:
Depends what you use hibernation for, eh? I don't use it only to save on restart time. It saves the state of all the stuff I was working on so I can resume the next day with minimal fuss.
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fffblackmage said:
Hibernation isn't normally recommended for SSDs, because saving ram to the SSD causes wear on the flash memory. Alternatively, you can also use sleep/standby.
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Yea, I agree with fff. Use S3 sleep mode instead. It saves your data to ram, so it's less wear on the SDD and faster to sleep/resume. Granted it won't save if the power goes out, but I would hope if it was that important, you'd hard save it or have a battery backup.
 
fffblackmage said:
Never ever disable the pagefile. Shrink it, maybe, but don't disable. Disabling it can cause crashes.

Hibernation is pretty pointless with an SSD, so disabling it is fine.
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OS said:
well so they say, but my computers have been ok
lots of things users here do are not good for stability like overclocking, unlock cores/gpus etc.

i don't do any real work on my personal computers anyways, the worst thing is my facebook and email might crash lol.
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I want to say either AT or Tom's did an article on this, and basically it's ok to disable it if none of your programs are hard coded to require it. Some are, so you just have to try and see what happens.
 
sticks435 said:
I want to say either AT or Tom's did an article on this, and basically it's ok to disable it if none of your programs are hard coded to require it. Some are, so you just have to try and see what happens.
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Tom's did an article on it and you're right.

I disabled mine and the performance boost is definitely noticeable.
 
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