ssd noobie

[Lanx]

newegg had the ocz 30g vertex for 100bucks after rebate yesterday so i decided to try it out. Can i just put windows 7rc1 on it(for main drive) and put the swap file on my regular seagates and thats about all i'd need? or do i have to do the browser temp internet thing too?

 

[dandragonrage]

you don't have to put your swapfile on another drive, nor your internet temporary files, though you can if you want. I normally do anyway just so my OS and swap file have some benefit by reading from different drives.

 

[extide]

I wouldn't move the swap to a magnetic disk though, either get enough ram to turn it off, or turn it down to like ~200MB and leave it on the SSD. Disable your indexing and defrag on it also.

 

[Lanx]

ah good points thx, my htpc recently had a hd failure and i'm using an old 80g ide drive on it for now, maybe i'll use this ssd on it and play around with it(it's going in my main computer, but you know with only 30g it's kinda small).

 

[astrallite]

25MB/s vs 0.6MB/s 4K Random Reads. With 70% of Windows System reads being 4K and under...

Keep as many performance related temp files on the SSD as you can, personally.