So I broke down...

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I broke down and ordered up a Intel 80 GB X25M (SSDSA2MH080G2R5) from Amazon last night :D

As an SSD newbie... and Win7 newbie.. What do I need to know? Is there a Win7/SSD newbie guide someplace... This is my primary desktop that I use daily for work so keeping it running fresh is key :D:D

Thanks!
 
Just turn on AHCI in BIOS, then install W7. It will do what needs doing on it's own.

I no longer follow the older SSD guides. W7 seems to deal with them just fine. (Turns off Defrag on SSDs leaving HDDs enabled/etc.)

Maybe turn of system restore once installed, but that's about all I do now. (Also with an 80GB Intel.)
 
For the most part, just let Windows 7 do it's thing. I recommend setting you storage controller to AHCI in the BIOS, and to just use the built in Windows AHCI driver. If you don't use hibernation, turn it off as it can eat a lot of room. Some people will say turn the Pagefile off or move it, but in my mind that defeats the purpose, as SSD's are suited for paging. If you do a search here, there are a few threads with general suggestions on SSD set-up and use.
 
Thanks for info, def will be turning off hibernation or disabling during install.

With 6gb ram, I hope to note us the pagefile too much... I`ll monitor it, and possibly add another 6gb if needed.

Sounds pretty straight forward.
 
So I was looking at this drive as well...It has a sustained write speed of 70 mb/s, whereas it seems like a lot of other drives have a write speed of 100+ mb/s on average. Is this an issue?

Mainly I was thinking about getting this for OS and games like ArmA2 that require a TON of HDD swapping.
 
should set up your partition using diskpart on the win7 install disk. At least then you won't have that damn 100mb system reserved partition that likes to screw with backup.
 
After seeing that SSD have a finite number or writes, if you are going to be writing/deleting lots of data wouldn't you be better off to go with a non SSD? Example would be high performance database servers or other servers that do a lot of write functions. Heck even the OS does more writes in it's day to day functions then user using it. I read this http://www.anandtech.com/show/2614/3 but I'm still sifting through the information in my head.
 
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