Solid State Drive and Compatibility with GA-EP45-UD3P Rev 1.0
Pedro Sanchez IV
Are there any 'Pitfalls' to using an SSD Drive (64G maybe 128GB) to
completely take the job of the Hard Drive? Or at least take up 99% of
the job with THIS motherbaord?
DL
Cost still outways any performance increse
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John Slade
> The difficulties in recovering data from a failed SSD
> Cost still outways any performance increse
Well if the person makes regular backups of the drive or
just the important data, they won't need to do a recovery. Data
recovery from a failed HD is pretty costly though the price is
dropping.
John
Gorby
had to get a new BIOS from Gigabyte F10c, which recognised the SSD.
I have installed Windows 7 Professional 64 bit on the SSD. The SSD also
has swap and programs on it. I have set all data (docs, pictures, music
and vidoes, etc) to be on a 1 Gig HDD.
The set up is very quick to boot, and load applications. Very happy with
that.
I'm not sure if the SSD is causing a random crash- reboot. It has only
stared since I have installed the SSD. It only happens when the PC is at
rest (unattended - default powersaving). I've never had it happen when I
am actually using the PC.
And Yes! I back up the PC every day using Retrospect onto external
harddrives.
(PeteCresswell)
> Cost still outways any performance increse
IMHO it's worth the modest learning curve/effort to learn how to
not keep data on a System drive. That's been my practice for
years now and it's a real source of comfort that, when the
teenager who bangs on my PC a couple hours every day, messes
something up I don't even think twice: fire up the Image utility
and re-image the system from the last backup image. 30 minutes
later, we're back to a clean system.
Having said all that.... I just switched over to an Intel 80-gig
SSD drive.
"Any" performance increase? I found a huge performance
increase. It's almost back to the old DOS/Character Screen/486
days: closest thing to instantaneous response I've seen in years.
I re-image from a newly-installed system often enough to be
familiar with the increase in performance/response that usually
follows reverting to a virgin install of XP. The increase from
using the SSD as system disc was way, way, waaaaay beyond that: a
quantum leap.
The SSD was about $180 at NewEgg. The system rebuild from
scratch is about six hours plus three weeks of "Oops... forgot
about that...better install it...".
For the response time I'm getting now, I'd do it again in a
heartbeat.
--
PeteCresswell
Gorby
Forget about the furphy (spelling?) random crash. It has nothing to do
with the SSD. After looking at the Crash Dumps and doing a bit of
Googling, it seems the crashes are due to some problems with new ATI
video cards going into low power mode.
Gorby
immediately.
Love it!