basic ssd questions

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kandor

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Hi,

I just picked up my first SSD drive to use as the system drive of my new computer. After doing a bit of research I see all these articles/posts talking about moving the entire user folder to another driver, disabling indexing etc.

The basic theme is 'don't save stuff to your ssd drive, 'cause it doesn't like it...'. My attitude is: it's my c drive and I'm just going to use it like any other driver (but I did disable indexing). Anything wrong with that?

OCZ Vertex2 90gb.
 
(but I did disable indexing). Anything wrong with that?
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That is fine as long as you disable defrag as well and probably prefetch. Windows 7 should automatically do this if it detects an SSD.
 
Moving the users folder to another drive or partition has always been a quality of life issue for me. Not SSD specific, just the desire to keep user-created and modified content and other media away from programs and system files that can be wiped out and restored on a whim from optical disk, installation file, and/or disk image.

Moving the users folder is just a handy way to keep all that data separate while maintaining the standard structure Windows and other programs are looking for.
 
Yes, I get that - but what I was reading about was people's paranoia about too frequent writes of log files etc. in the program data and users folder 'wearing' out their drive prematurely.

I don't stress about backups cause my server backups up all my computers every night. But since I'm new to SSD's I want to check about this 'wear' issue. I'd prefer to just use it in the same fashion as any harddrive (indexing and defrag notwithstanding).
 
Yes, I get that - but what I was reading about was people's paranoia about too frequent writes of log files etc. in the program data and users folder 'wearing' out their drive prematurely.
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SSDs in my opinion have an expected lifetime of at least as much as desktop hard drives (5 to 7 years) in normal operation unless you deliberately try to kill it. Although I have not seen a single instance on any forum that a user has accomplished this (kill a ssd by wearing it out) with a modern SSD.
 
That is not to say that SSDs do not die early for non write endurance reasons. There have been many reports of this. Although hard drives die early as well.
 
for sure, I just froze, then heated with a heat gun my neighbors dead clicking drive and got it to work for almost 20 hours, long enough to copy everything off it :)
 
That was smart to start a new thread for this, because I doubt it's been discussed before. I don't think there's any information yet on Google for new SSD users.

Seriously though, all I did was set AHCI mode, turn off hibernation, move my page file to HDD, and download Link Shell Extension... I'll introduce you to Google to find out how to do those things.
 
No need to be so abrasive :p

The SSD is a great place to put a page file, even if you make it smaller than stock.
 
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