Hello there,
I did some searching here but found nothing of what I was looking for. I'm wanting to get a SSD to be my OS drive in order to hasten my boot times, maybe try a game or two on it idk about that.
Now, someone will probably come in here saying to go to win7. I will not be switching to win7 for as long as I possibly can. I play some games competitively (quake live, xonotic etc) and I was never able to replicate my sensitivity and get the same feel on win7. It felt different and made me way worse, so I went back to XP after a few months of trying to get used to it. I have a laptop with win7 for any serious work I need to do.
So, I'm looking at the 60GB intel 330 series for 60 bucks on newegg. The SSD will have my OS/web browser on it and that's basically about it if I don't put some games on it to see how they do, and my 1TB WD black will have Steam/all my other games and files on it.
My questions are: What all should I do when I install the SSD? I know I'll need to install intel's SSD toolkit and TRIM the drive as well as monitor it a couple times a week. Should I disable the windows paging file for this drive also? I read some things saying it doesn't hurt to leave it on and some saying to turn it off. Would it affect my WD at all? Are there any other things I need to consider?
Thanks!
I did some searching here but found nothing of what I was looking for. I'm wanting to get a SSD to be my OS drive in order to hasten my boot times, maybe try a game or two on it idk about that.
Now, someone will probably come in here saying to go to win7. I will not be switching to win7 for as long as I possibly can. I play some games competitively (quake live, xonotic etc) and I was never able to replicate my sensitivity and get the same feel on win7. It felt different and made me way worse, so I went back to XP after a few months of trying to get used to it. I have a laptop with win7 for any serious work I need to do.
So, I'm looking at the 60GB intel 330 series for 60 bucks on newegg. The SSD will have my OS/web browser on it and that's basically about it if I don't put some games on it to see how they do, and my 1TB WD black will have Steam/all my other games and files on it.
My questions are: What all should I do when I install the SSD? I know I'll need to install intel's SSD toolkit and TRIM the drive as well as monitor it a couple times a week. Should I disable the windows paging file for this drive also? I read some things saying it doesn't hurt to leave it on and some saying to turn it off. Would it affect my WD at all? Are there any other things I need to consider?
Thanks!