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| 1377427 | 2014-06-19 20:58:00 | Samsung Evo gets my vote, or I see a crucial MX100 on special all over the place for $344 for 512Gb - very tempting. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1377428 | 2014-06-19 21:45:00 | Yes, I've seen a review of the Samsung which gave it high praise. I'm not sure I need 512GB - I'm only planning to have a single partition, solely for the Windows installation, and leave my other disks for everything else. 256GB or even less should be adequate for that. My current Windows partition is 100GB of and is about 50% full. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1377429 | 2014-06-19 22:57:00 | To add a clarification, a SSD will work on any mobo with a SATA socket but it won't attain its highest speed unless attached to a 6GB/s port. I had a fast SATA port and AHCI allowed the SSD to achieve its full speed potential. not quite that easy. some mobo's have the highest speed sata on a secondary chip. in some case they can run slower than the main sata ports because of bottleneck between the secondary chip and the chipset. ie the connection between the two isn't fast enough to cater for multiple devices. pays to check out the reviews of that mobo and see if theres any issues. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1377430 | 2014-06-19 23:19:00 | Yes, I've seen a review of the Samsung which gave it high praise. I'm not sure I need 512GB - I'm only planning to have a single partition, solely for the Windows installation, and leave my other disks for everything else. 256GB or even less should be adequate for that. My current Windows partition is 100GB of and is about 50% full. I got the 256GB Samsung EVO but, in spite of putting everything I usefully could onto it, I am only using 80GB. So I could really have got away with 128GB. |
linw (53) | ||
| 1377431 | 2014-06-19 23:22:00 | not quite that easy. some mobo's have the highest speed sata on a secondary chip. in some case they can run slower than the main sata ports because of bottleneck between the secondary chip and the chipset. ie the connection between the two isn't fast enough to cater for multiple devices. pays to check out the reviews of that mobo and see if theres any issues.My mobo is an ASUS M3A-H/HDMI and its documentation says it has 6 SATA 3.0 sockets. How do I tell whether what you say is the case here? |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1377432 | 2014-06-20 00:07:00 | My mobo is an ASUS M3A-H/HDMI and its documentation says it has 6 SATA 3.0 sockets. How do I tell whether what you say is the case here? just had a quick look. theres only one set (6) of sata ports so theres no choice as what to use. that makes things easy. i went with intel SSD. reliability more important to me than speed. 120gig and its not even half full. i also have 500gig and other drives as bulk storage. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 1377433 | 2014-06-20 00:25:00 | People were having probs with the Intel 530, if they were using (so Intel thinks) a displayport cable / connection, and pin 20 was missing on the cable. It kept on disappearing on reboot. But I've read that even if you put a SATA 3 ssd on a SATA 2 port it'll still be fast enough (but not as fast as it should be). |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1377434 | 2014-06-20 00:30:00 | But I've read that even if you put a SATA 3 ssd on a SATA 2 port it'll still be fast enough (but not as fast as it should be).Yes, I've seen that written somewhere as well. I just tried changing my BIOS settings from IDE to AHCI and Windows refused to load. I got a quick flash of a blue screen and then it rebooted. I've read a couple of things about problems like this but nothing definitive yet. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1377435 | 2014-06-20 00:43:00 | You can't change from IDE to AHCI after windows is installed. It has to be on AHCI before you install windows. If you want to use AHCI. Otherwise, you'll get a 0x0000007b stop error. Which means it cant find the hdd to boot from But if you use XP the SATA drivers have to be slipstreamed on the CD, if you want to use AHCI. Since XP doesnt have any SATA drivers on the CD. Otherwise it'll crash with the same stop error. Before you even install windows |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1377436 | 2014-06-20 00:49:00 | You can't change from IDE to AHCI after windows is installed. It has to be on AHCI before you install windows. If you want to use AHCI. Otherwise, you'll get a 0x0000007b stop error. Which means it cant find the hdd to boot fromYes, that's the impression I've had. I've seen a couple of things about registry hacks and the like, but nothing I'm game to try. | Tony (4941) | ||
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