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Your winsxs folder isn't actually as big as windows explorer says it is. Most of the files in it are just hard links (or even multiple hard links) to files that exist elsewhere on the file system, so even if you deleted them from winsxs, it wouldn't actually free up any disk space. stealth edit: that command is a legit way to free up real disk space, though.
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If you don't quite have $100 and are looking for an SSD: Newegg has Intel 320 Series 2.5" 80GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive SSD (SSDSA2CW080G3K5) for $149.99 - $20 off code IntelSSD - $50 Rebate = $79.99 with free shipping. Newegg has OCZ Agility 3 2.5" 90GB SATA III SSD (AGT3-25SAT3-90G) for $104.99 - $20 Rebate = $84.99 with free shipping. Newegg, via Slickdeals
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Bob Morales posted:Newegg has OCZ Agility 3 2.5" 90GB SATA III SSD (AGT3-25SAT3-90G) for $104.99 - $20 Rebate = $84.99 with free shipping. [/i] I've got this drive albeit in 120GB flavor and the performance is great. However its recently developed quite a bad microstutter that rears its head every now and then.
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I just built a system a couple of months ago with a Crucial m4 256GB main drive; I use a 2TB drive for all media and various other data. For some reason running CrystalDiskMark gives me this:  What's the deal? I read the OP and did the various updates and I tried turning off hibernation to increase the free space thinking that could have been the problem, but I think 50GB free is more than sufficient. Really, 3 MB/s? What gives? I disabled NOD32 and Malaware protection, no change, I haven't done anything particularly exotic on this drive. TRIM is enabled, it's in AHCI mode, all seems to be as it should.
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Jan 12, 2012 18:45
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SovietSpyGuy posted:I just built a system a couple of months ago with a Crucial m4 256GB main drive; I use a 2TB drive for all media and various other data. For some reason running CrystalDiskMark gives me this: My bet is on partition alignment being off.
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Jan 12, 2012 18:52
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I would imagine the partition is right if it was a new system and thus a clean build. What port is it hooked up to? Make sure it's hooked up to the Intel ones, because sometimes the janky controllers they add for extra ports have bad performance.
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Jan 12, 2012 18:54
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It is hooked up to an Intel port; I ran the same benchmark when I first put the system together and it was in line with benchmarks of this drive in various articles. Not sure what could have happened since.
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Jan 12, 2012 19:10
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Tri SLI has stolen all its electricity (that was you, wasn't it?) Has it had any oddball workloads or anything lately? The GC isn't the best on the M4, so it can take some time to recover if you've done anything too demanding to it. On the other hand, can't see as you'd probably notice the difference outside of some numbers in benchmarks.
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Jan 12, 2012 19:22
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What's the general consensus of enabling or disabling write-back cache in Intel RST with SSD raid-0 setups?
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Jan 12, 2012 19:31
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Dogen posted:Tri SLI has stolen all its electricity (that was you, wasn't it?) Yep, that was me. And it was totally worth it now that I actually have some time to play BF3.  Nothing I can think of...I generally just do typical internet things, Solidworks, and occasionally games. I'm not running anything in the background other than anti-virus, and I have a full system backup run daily to an external drive. Is there a way to check the partition alignment? I can't imagine how it would have changed though if it was initially set up correctly.
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Jan 12, 2012 19:37
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It won't have changed unless you changed it in some way, so I doubt that's it if you were getting good speeds when you set it up.
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Jan 12, 2012 20:44
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Bob Morales posted:If you don't quite have $100 and are looking for an SSD: They have two Intel 320 series on sale, and I can't figure out the difference between them, besides $3, and a B and a K. Specs seem identical. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167047 Intel 320 Series SSDSA2CW080G3K5 2.5" 80GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) $99.99 after rebates http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167048 Intel 320 Series SSDSA2CW080G3B5 2.5" 80GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) $102.99 after rebates
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Pretty sure one is a system-builder kit with the drive bracket and stuff.
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SovietSpyGuy posted:I just built a system a couple of months ago with a Crucial m4 256GB main drive; I use a 2TB drive for all media and various other data. For some reason running CrystalDiskMark gives me this: This looks like you forgot to enable AHCI in BIOS, are you 100% sure its enabled on the controller you plugged it into? Sometimes BIOS has multiple SATA controllers.
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Jan 12, 2012 22:03
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The winslx command didnt work for me- I used a x64 Win7+SP1 integrated install, could that be why? Said something about service pack files not found
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Treytor posted:What's the general consensus of enabling or disabling write-back cache in Intel RST with SSD raid-0 setups? If you enable it, you should consistently get SSD level write performance to your cached drive(s), which is pretty good and could easily be a noticeable, significant performance boost. The downside is that now your SSD becomes a necessary part of a drive array; if the SSD dies or whatever, hello file system corruption. Essentially, you're creating a RAID 0, albeit with much higher chances of recovering data if the SSD does fail. I don't think there's any sort of consensus, it's up to you decide if you are willing to trade a higher risk of data loss, and inconvenience should you want to move a drive to another system, in exchange for significantly better write performance. dud root posted:The winslx command didnt work for me- I used a x64 Win7+SP1 integrated install, could that be why? Said something about service pack files not found Yeah, if SP1 is integrated then the files that command deletes were never there in the first place.
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Anandtech got to talk with Sandforce a bit about the upcoming SF-3000 series of controllers. It looks like the big ticket item is ONFI 3.0 support, which doubles per-chip interface bandwidth from 200MB/sec to 400MB/sec. Random read/write performance should nearly double, and Sandforce is also predicting a significant improvement in incompressible write performance. Finally, we may see some native PCI-E SSD controllers in the SF-3000 series.
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Jan 13, 2012 11:33
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Alereon posted:I have nearly 13GB in my winsxs folder, which is the Windows Side-by-Side Assembly Store. This folder holds different versions of libraries, so that each program gets access to the version it wants, preventing "DLL hell." The downside is the folder grows in size as you install Windows Updates and new applications (and doesn't shrink when programs are uninstalled). 4 gigs of more freedom! Thank you sir.
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 Does this look about right for a Samsung 830 256gb on SATA2? When I turned AHCI on one of the scores went down by a but everything else went up. As a side note, with ACHI off sequential read/write were pretty close to where they are now (~220 each). It was 4k-64 and 4k-write that went up significantly with it on, and 4k-read dropped by ~6. I have the 830 because it was on sale for $300 and I plan on upgrading some time in the next year.
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Perfectly fine.
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univbee posted:The tool stays at that version, that's normal. It's possible you did a clean install with SP1 already there, or already ran the tool somehow. I'm guessing the tool does the same thing as drive properties -> cleanup unused files -> service pack backup files.
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Awhile ago (like, 5 months, but I just haven't had time to play with this until now) I posted my computer wouldn't boot if my SSD was plugged in. I could plug it in after boot and install it, writer to it, whatever, everything would work fine but if I tried to boot even after that the computer wouldn't boot. Well anyway, starting from a tip someone gave me here, I finally got to the solution. I unplugged all my other drives, installed windows onto the SSD like it was the only drive on the computer. I turned the machine off, plugged the other stuff back in, and now everything is running fine.
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Are there significant performance gains to be had by installing Windows on an internal SSD drive while using an internal SATA drive for everything else?
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Flayer posted:Are there significant performance gains to be had by installing Windows on an internal SSD drive while using an internal SATA drive for everything else? you would also need to install often-used programs on the SSD
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I know the recommended size is 128GB, but I'm not a gamer. I just checked my OSX applications, system, and library folders and it's ~25GB rounded up total (even on version 10.5), mostly of the OSX applications that I don't use, and including the music and visual art programs I do use. Although, I'm switching to Windows 7 so it'll probably be different. I think the 60GB version ends up being 55GB total. Corsair GT 60GB - $110 90GB - $150 120GB - $190 Do you guys recommend the 120GB because you install a lot of games? I'm trying to get the best bang for the buck for my needs. Edit: Forgot about speed differences with the larger drives, but even then … Edit 2: Forgot to mention that this'll be a desktop with additional HDDs. crimedog fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Jan 14, 2012 |
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Yeah games is a big part of it, for a laptop if your work doesn't involve a bunch of huge files, you probably have a good sense of what you can get away with.
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Goose Halo posted:Do you guys recommend the 120GB because you install a lot of games? I'm trying to get the best bang for the buck for my needs. I can get away with a 64GB SSD (C300) in my work laptop, I usually have about 10GB free. I went for a 120GB (Force GT) in my home PC simply so I could have a couple games installed. The difference in speed I noticed for each upgrade was insane. fletcher fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Jan 14, 2012 |
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Flashed my ocz vertex from 1.5 to 1.7, now it disappeared from windows and from bios at least once. Left it running a benchmark to see if it'd happen again under load. If it turns out to be consistent then I'm going to  and do without, gently caress ocz.
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Just heard that Crucial has a new firmware for the M4 that fixes the BSOD bug.
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unpronounceable posted:Just heard that Crucial has a new firmware for the M4 that fixes the BSOD bug. Well, I installed it on my 128 and nothing exploded. So far, so good. edit: just in the nick of time, 3200 hours on the drive! Slightly less than 2000 more and I would have been in trouble.
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Goose Halo posted:Do you guys recommend the 120GB because you install a lot of games? I'm trying to get the best bang for the buck for my needs. I'm using around 100 gigs now and being pretty loose with the usage (it's nice not having to give a crap), so I probably would've been fine with 120. If you're going to watch the usage a lot 60 will work out, but I'd suggest going a bit bigger for wiggle room cause managing the space can get annoying. It's still a bit annoying with other drives, but in that case at least you can move stuff around if necessary.
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Trying to update my desktop with the M4 firmware fix but problem is there is no IDE mode in the BIOS. All I see is RAID or AHCI. Kinda lost here.
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HeyEng posted:Trying to update my desktop with the M4 firmware fix but problem is there is no IDE mode in the BIOS. All I see is RAID or AHCI. Kinda lost here.
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Alereon posted:Does it not detect the drive in AHCI mode? I don't see anything in the update guide about needing to use IDE mode. What motherboard do you have? Disregard. I was reading the wrong guide.
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So why does the OP say not to move the pagefile to another hard drive? I have a 64 gb ssd and it's taking up 8gb.
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Because most access to the page file is 4KB random reads and writes, which SSDs are about 20-40x faster at than hard drives. That is, the entire reason you buy an SSD is for exactly the types of I/O the page file sees. Shrink it if you have enough RAM that you use it rarely, but leave it on the SSD.
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Factory Factory posted:Because most access to the page file is 4KB random reads and writes, which SSDs are about 20-40x faster at than hard drives. That is, the entire reason you buy an SSD is for exactly the types of I/O the page file sees. Alright...Well, to be honest I don't really know how much to shrink it by, or if I'm even tapping into it.
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Nigulus Rex posted:Alright...Well, to be honest I don't really know how much to shrink it by, or if I'm even tapping into it.
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unpronounceable posted:Just heard that Crucial has a new firmware for the M4 that fixes the BSOD bug. anyone know if this firmware issue affects any non-Windows OSes? Perhaps FreeBSD?
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SovietSpyGuy posted:So what I said earlier about this...my internal drives are connected to (I think) an "ASMedia" port, which I will guess is a third-party (non-intel) controller of some sort. Could this be causing that much of a performance issue? Again everything was fine when I first installed Windows and various programs and did a speed test. I just don't know what else to try? I will try switching the internal connection to a different port though. I assume this won't cause any trouble in Windows.
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