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SSD or HD for Win7
Hello,
I have built a PC for a gamer friend (Core I5, 8BG Ram 1600, Asus P8 mother board) She bought a SSD 60BG and a HD 320GB/7200. She wants to play WOW... My question is where should I install the system (WIndows 7 64 bits) ? - W7 on the HD and WOW on the SSD ? (60GB enough for WOW..?) - W7 on the SSD and WOW on the HD ? (60GB enough for W7..?) - W7 and WOW on the HD and ReadyBoost on the SSD ? What is your opinion? Thanks! Guillaume. |
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On 12/24/2011 4:27 AM, Guillaume Tello wrote:
Hello, I have built a PC for a gamer friend (Core I5, 8BG Ram 1600, Asus P8 mother board) She bought a SSD 60BG and a HD 320GB/7200. She wants to play WOW... My question is where should I install the system (WIndows 7 64 bits) ? - W7 on the HD and WOW on the SSD ? (60GB enough for WOW..?) - W7 on the SSD and WOW on the HD ? (60GB enough for W7..?) - W7 and WOW on the HD and ReadyBoost on the SSD ? What is your opinion? WOW is not very demanding, resources-wise. For WOW it doesn't matter that much. |
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Guillaume Tello wrote:
Hello, I have built a PC for a gamer friend (Core I5, 8BG Ram 1600, Asus P8 mother board) She bought a SSD 60BG and a HD 320GB/7200. She wants to play WOW... My question is where should I install the system (WIndows 7 64 bits) ? - W7 on the HD and WOW on the SSD ? (60GB enough for WOW..?) - W7 on the SSD and WOW on the HD ? (60GB enough for W7..?) - W7 and WOW on the HD and ReadyBoost on the SSD ? What is your opinion? Thanks! Guillaume. The C: on my Win7 right now is 26GB, and according to this, WOW can be in the 8GB range (with an expansion pack). So that would be 34GB, ignoring a bit of space for System Restore points (say another 3GB). http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...4015219AAPynTF To answer the question, it might be a good idea to ask the owner, how the current C: drive is filled. To see which configuration might be best. A review using SequoiaView (graphical view of filesystem), might tell you whether C: tends to get bloated with stuff or not. http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/on.../sequoiaview// Paul |
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On 12/24/2011 4:27 AM, Guillaume Tello wrote:
Hello, I have built a PC for a gamer friend (Core I5, 8BG Ram 1600, Asus P8 mother board) She bought a SSD 60BG and a HD 320GB/7200. She wants to play WOW... My question is where should I install the system (WIndows 7 64 bits) ? - W7 on the HD and WOW on the SSD ? (60GB enough for WOW..?) - W7 on the SSD and WOW on the HD ? (60GB enough for W7..?) - W7 and WOW on the HD and ReadyBoost on the SSD ? What is your opinion? Thanks! Guillaume. Windows 7 on the SSD, no question here. The OS performs beautifully on the faster drive and the owner will be amazed with boot times and overall performance. WOW - no experience here. The rule of thumb is to minimize programs that write to the SSD, as the lifespan of these drives is measured in write cycles. So you install Windows on the SSD, but point the page file, restore points, etc to the spinner. |
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Le 24/12/2011 17:00, TVeblen a écrit :
On 12/24/2011 4:27 AM, Guillaume Tello wrote: Hello, I have built a PC for a gamer friend (Core I5, 8BG Ram 1600, Asus P8 mother board) She bought a SSD 60BG and a HD 320GB/7200. She wants to play WOW... My question is where should I install the system (WIndows 7 64 bits) ? - W7 on the HD and WOW on the SSD ? (60GB enough for WOW..?) - W7 on the SSD and WOW on the HD ? (60GB enough for W7..?) - W7 and WOW on the HD and ReadyBoost on the SSD ? What is your opinion? Thanks! Guillaume. Windows 7 on the SSD, no question here. The OS performs beautifully on the faster drive and the owner will be amazed with boot times and overall performance. WOW - no experience here. The rule of thumb is to minimize programs that write to the SSD, as the lifespan of these drives is measured in write cycles. So you install Windows on the SSD, but point the page file, restore points, etc to the spinner. Okay, thanks for your advises! I will put the OS on the SSD, redirect everything I can on the HD, and it will be ok. Guillaume. |
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On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:27:47 +0100, Guillaume Tello
wrote: Hello, I have built a PC for a gamer friend (Core I5, 8BG Ram 1600, Asus P8 mother board) She bought a SSD 60BG and a HD 320GB/7200. She wants to play WOW... My question is where should I install the system (WIndows 7 64 bits) ? - W7 on the HD and WOW on the SSD ? (60GB enough for WOW..?) - W7 on the SSD and WOW on the HD ? (60GB enough for W7..?) - W7 and WOW on the HD and ReadyBoost on the SSD ? What is your opinion? I think you'll have enough for W7 and WOW on the SSD here. |
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SSD or HD for Win7
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:00:54 -0500, TVeblen
wrote: The rule of thumb is to minimize programs that write to the SSD, as the lifespan of these drives is measured in write cycles. So you install Windows on the SSD, but point the page file, restore points, etc to the spinner. SSDlife: Work time: 7125 hours (9 months 26 days 21 hours) Health: 100%. Estimated lifetime: 9 years 2 months 15 days. (I've been getting exactly the same answer since I first checked. The "lifetime" is 10 years from when I started using it, I don't think it's actually going to use up it's write life at that point.) Admittedly it makes very little use of the page file as I have 24gb in the box. |
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SSD or HD for Win7
On Dec 24, 1:27*am, Guillaume Tello wrote:
Hello, I have built a PC for a gamer friend (Core I5, 8BG Ram 1600, Asus P8 mother board) She bought a SSD 60BG and a HD 320GB/7200. She wants to play WOW... My question is where should I install the system (WIndows 7 64 bits) ? - W7 on the HD and WOW on the SSD ? (60GB enough for WOW..?) - W7 on the SSD and WOW on the HD ? (60GB enough for W7..?) - W7 and WOW on the HD and ReadyBoost on the SSD ? What is your opinion? Thanks! Guillaume. Put WoW on your SSD, no question. You will notice the difference a lot more during game play. Everytime you change zones, WoW loads the zone off of disk, and you are comstantly changing zones. The load time is typically 10 to 30 seconds, depending upon the zone, when using a HD. Throw WoW on the SSD and those load times go down to 1-2 seconds. I cannot emphasise enough the frequency you are changing zones and how often WoW reads from the disk. Conversely, W7 on the SSD primarily affects you boot times, but you only boot your computer once a day. During actual game play, W7 itself is not reading from the drives. Don't believe me? Ask this question in the alt.games.warcraft newsgroup. -- // T.Hsu |
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On Dec 24, 8:04*am, Guillaume Tello wrote:
* * * * Okay, thanks for your advises! * * * * I will put the OS on the SSD, redirect everything I can on the HD, and it will be ok. No. Put WoW on the SSD. Your friend boots up her computer only once per day for a whooping 5 minutes at most. Once booted, W7 hardly ever reads from the drive. Conversely, she is playing WoW for 2-4 hours a day, and WoW is constantly reading from the disk. No question, put WoW on the SSD first, and if theres enough room left over, them put W7 on the SSD, but notice the order there. You've never played WoW, so you don't understand this point of view, but WoW reads from the disk all pf the time, and people who play the game will do so for hours at a time. The operating system might as well not exist for them, because that's how little time they spend in it. Alt.games.warcraft has real life experiences of people who have used a SSD. A quick search and you'll find several posts on this subject. -- // T.Hsu |
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