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SSD with Vista - Good move?

M

Melor

Junior Member
I have been researching SSD's and am wondering if it is not a good idea to install one one as a boot drive for my Vista box. I know it will work, but without the native support for the TRIM function, is this a waste? Also, hearing about how many people have had to reformat and reinstall their drive I am wondering if this is too much work for the speed increase. I run a complete backup of my system every couple of days or after important work is done on my computer so any boot drive loss is likely to cause me to lose only a few days of spam email, but I don't want the hassles if it is something that has to be done frequently.

Question: Do you run a SSD with Vista? Does it work well for you?

Question: How often do you have to reinstall the data on the SSD?

Paul
 
Yep before upgraded to Win7. No problems at all, besides you have to manually dissable disk defragmentation on the ssd. Even under win7 I don't have Trim, performance is great so i'm not concerned.

Many years if you write to it and them leave it unused.

Not much point upgrading to win7 unless your unhappy with vista (chances are in that case you'll also be unhappy with win7 or like me you just like to play with new things 😛)
 
Emulex said:
yes;yes
never.

why don't you just upgrade to 7; there are many cheaps ways.
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I am running Vista 32 bit and want to build a new box that is win7 64 bit because I cannot easily go from V32 to Win764 on my existing machine.

Paul
 
If you get an Indilinx or Samsung drive, they have background garbage collection firmwares that serve as a TRIM for the drive (No OS requirements).
 
64bit is overrated unless you have like 6gb of ram imo. or are running server 2008/r2.

bum an upgrade to 7 32bit from a friend. everyone's got 'em . Hell i'd give you some of mine but I don't know you 🙂

p.s. you have to fresh-reinstall to windows 7 to get proper alignment unless you are super elite at knowing how to align; so the re-install rule applies to 7 32 or 64 bit for optimal performance. alignment is pretty critical. I am not sure if they have the ability for the o/s to re-align upon format or hot-stripe(raid) resizing yet in desktop setups. would help alot.

on servers you have to align, and optimize stripe size (raid) to get the maximum payback and it sure as hell does payback well when both are setup right for the application.
 
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Emulex said:
p.s. you have to fresh-reinstall to windows 7 to get proper alignment unless you are super elite at knowing how to align;
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Knowing GParted makes you "super elite at knowing how to align"? It's really not that hard.. though there are some screens floating around here, that show that the difference between 4k aligned and not aligned is really small at least for the Intel G2 drives.
 
Voo said:
Knowing GParted makes you "super elite at knowing how to align"? It's really not that hard.. though there are some screens floating around here, that show that the difference between 4k aligned and not aligned is really small at least for the Intel G2 drives.
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Vista aligns the partions as well. Unless the OP used another utility or XP to create the partition, it should be already aligned if it was created by vista during install.
 
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