installation steps for new SSD

ibdoomed2 said:
Ah, so a bootable raid0 array is far more stable than ahci, unexpected and good to know.
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It bluescreens because it goes to look for the drive its booting off of and goes "wtf?!" when it hasn't loaded the AHCI driver because it was installed onto an IDE mode drive. Its a simple registry edit to fix. Its set that way by default to help speed boots, but MS really needs to load the AHCI driver anyway at this point.
rontruong said:
Alright, so I'm getting my new g2 on wednesday and I'm just wondering if I'm forgetting any crucial steps when I setup win7... if anyone has a nice link to show me, i'd greatly appreciate it :)
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AHCI mode, windows will disable defrag and superfetch on its own, nothing else really needs to be done.

My 080G2 showed up today too. My ATTO results:

Small files are quite a bit worse than yours. Maybe its because I haven't restarted since installing windows (at all) yet. :shrug:

DiscreteMeat- data files are fine on the SSD. Loading the program is only one part of loading a file, loading the data file is the other part. You want both to be fast. If you really want to, lookup directory junctions or how to move the my docs/etc folders.
 
rontruong said:
also anyone tried these other additional things too??

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47212
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I used this thread when setting up my Patriot WarpV2 128GB.

Also one thing I did was create Symbolic Links in Windows Vista for certain folders that get data written and deleted alot. In particular I did the Logs folder of World of Warcraft and the folder for Sony Vegas Pro under My Documents. These folders are now linked to point to a regular disc drive so that way I can write and delete stuff as often as I need to without fear of messing up the SSD. The Log folder in World Of Warcraft ends up getting a ~100MB file written every night we raid (3-4 times a week) which has to be deleted after each use. And its all seamless as far as how the programs behave.
 
for symbolic links and such... should we start doing that for temp internet files...

i know we can change the windows temp folder in the environment variables section...

but does anyone have any other file locations people should consider?

it actually doesn't seem like a big deal to me, unless someone points out something thats writing 100+ mb per day/restart cycle
 
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