Opinion on SSD Setup

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AthlonXP

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Just wondering your guys thoughts on a possible build for a friend. He currently has 2 Intel g2 SSD's one is an 80gb and the other is a 160gb. I was wondering which way should he set his stuff up, should he do the 80gb for OS and 160gb for his games or the other way around??
 
160gb is slightly faster and will allow for more growth, I'd make it the OS drive.
 
How big is his steam/games folder? My Steam folder alone is 80gigs, so I'd have to use the 80gig for the OS.
 
I have an easy 3 step program for your friend.

1. 160GB RAID0 for OS Apps & Games with the 80 and half of the 160.
2. Partition off the remaining 80 on the 160 for storage.
3. Win.
 
wait... does TRIM work with RAID now? If not, then I wouldn't do RAID.

I'd use the 160gb drive for whatever applications you anticipate would benefit from the faster sustained write speed. I don't think the 160GB is actually faster for much else... so I doubt I could tell the difference for an OS drive.
 
Archmage said:
wait... does TRIM work with RAID now? If not, then I wouldn't do RAID.

I'd use the 160gb drive for whatever applications you anticipate would benefit from the faster sustained write speed. I don't think the 160GB is actually faster for much else... so I doubt I could tell the difference for an OS drive.
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Ohh crap are they still trying to work the kinks out on that? Oh that sucks. I guess we'll have to wait for TRIM+RAID.
 
People are basing far too much on TRIM lately.

Unless you do something far out of the ordinary or load the drive up to 95% full or more you're likely never going to notice any amount of slowdown that would require you to TRIM the drive anyway, especially in a RAID 0 setup.

Unless you run a benchmark on them all the time, you'll likely never perceive any loss of speed in normal use, and you'll be selling those drives to get newer ones long before you'd need TRIM.
 
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