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Solid State Drive and Compatibility with GA-EP45-UD3P Rev 1.0
UD3P board I have.
Are there any 'Pitfalls' to using an SSD Drive (64G maybe 128GB) to completely take the job of the Hard Drive? Or at least take up 99% of the job with THIS motherbaord? |
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Solid State Drive and Compatibility with GA-EP45-UD3P Rev 1.0
The difficulties in recovering data from a failed SSD
Cost still outways any performance increse "Pedro Sanchez IV" wrote in message news:25d3i5po8j6v4c4iaid67vesruqostq1v9@PRIVATE... UD3P board I have. Are there any 'Pitfalls' to using an SSD Drive (64G maybe 128GB) to completely take the job of the Hard Drive? Or at least take up 99% of the job with THIS motherbaord? |
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Solid State Drive and Compatibility with GA-EP45-UD3P Rev 1.0
On 12/11/2009 4:24 PM, DL wrote:
The difficulties in recovering data from a failed SSD Cost still outways any performance increse Well if the person makes regular backups of the drive or just the important data, they won't need to do a recovery. Data recovery from a failed HD is pretty costly though the price is dropping. John |
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Solid State Drive and Compatibility with GA-EP45-UD3P Rev 1.0
On 20/01/2011 5:51 PM, John Slade wrote:
On 12/11/2009 4:24 PM, DL wrote: The difficulties in recovering data from a failed SSD Cost still outways any performance increse Well if the person makes regular backups of the drive or just the important data, they won't need to do a recovery. Data recovery from a failed HD is pretty costly though the price is dropping. John I have a GA-EP45-UD3 motherboard, and I installed an A-RAM 60 Gig SSD. I had to get a new BIOS from Gigabyte F10c, which recognised the SSD. I have installed Windows 7 Professional 64 bit on the SSD. The SSD also has swap and programs on it. I have set all data (docs, pictures, music and vidoes, etc) to be on a 1 Gig HDD. The set up is very quick to boot, and load applications. Very happy with that. I'm not sure if the SSD is causing a random crash- reboot. It has only stared since I have installed the SSD. It only happens when the PC is at rest (unattended - default powersaving). I've never had it happen when I am actually using the PC. And Yes! I back up the PC every day using Retrospect onto external harddrives. |
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Solid State Drive and Compatibility with GA-EP45-UD3P Rev 1.0
The difficulties in recovering data from a failed SSD
Cost still outways any performance increse IMHO it's worth the modest learning curve/effort to learn how to not keep data on a System drive. That's been my practice for years now and it's a real source of comfort that, when the teenager who bangs on my PC a couple hours every day, messes something up I don't even think twice: fire up the Image utility and re-image the system from the last backup image. 30 minutes later, we're back to a clean system. Having said all that.... I just switched over to an Intel 80-gig SSD drive. "Any" performance increase? I found a huge performance increase. It's almost back to the old DOS/Character Screen/486 days: closest thing to instantaneous response I've seen in years. I re-image from a newly-installed system often enough to be familiar with the increase in performance/response that usually follows reverting to a virgin install of XP. The increase from using the SSD as system disc was way, way, waaaaay beyond that: a quantum leap. The SSD was about $180 at NewEgg. The system rebuild from scratch is about six hours plus three weeks of "Oops... forgot about that...better install it...". For the response time I'm getting now, I'd do it again in a heartbeat. -- PeteCresswell |
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Solid State Drive and Compatibility with GA-EP45-UD3P Rev 1.0
On 24/01/2011 3:32 PM, Gorby wrote:
On 20/01/2011 5:51 PM, John Slade wrote: On 12/11/2009 4:24 PM, DL wrote: The difficulties in recovering data from a failed SSD Cost still outways any performance increse Well if the person makes regular backups of the drive or just the important data, they won't need to do a recovery. Data recovery from a failed HD is pretty costly though the price is dropping. John I have a GA-EP45-UD3 motherboard, and I installed an A-RAM 60 Gig SSD. I had to get a new BIOS from Gigabyte F10c, which recognised the SSD. I have installed Windows 7 Professional 64 bit on the SSD. The SSD also has swap and programs on it. I have set all data (docs, pictures, music and vidoes, etc) to be on a 1 Gig HDD. The set up is very quick to boot, and load applications. Very happy with that. I'm not sure if the SSD is causing a random crash- reboot. It has only stared since I have installed the SSD. It only happens when the PC is at rest (unattended - default powersaving). I've never had it happen when I am actually using the PC. And Yes! I back up the PC every day using Retrospect onto external harddrives. Forget about the furphy (spelling?) random crash. It has nothing to do with the SSD. After looking at the Crash Dumps and doing a bit of Googling, it seems the crashes are due to some problems with new ATI video cards going into low power mode. |
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Solid State Drive and Compatibility with GA-EP45-UD3P Rev 1.0
On 28/01/2011 8:49 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
The difficulties in recovering data from a failed SSD Cost still outways any performance increse IMHO it's worth the modest learning curve/effort to learn how to not keep data on a System drive. That's been my practice for years now and it's a real source of comfort that, when the teenager who bangs on my PC a couple hours every day, messes something up I don't even think twice: fire up the Image utility and re-image the system from the last backup image. 30 minutes later, we're back to a clean system. Having said all that.... I just switched over to an Intel 80-gig SSD drive. "Any" performance increase? I found a huge performance increase. It's almost back to the old DOS/Character Screen/486 days: closest thing to instantaneous response I've seen in years. I re-image from a newly-installed system often enough to be familiar with the increase in performance/response that usually follows reverting to a virgin install of XP. The increase from using the SSD as system disc was way, way, waaaaay beyond that: a quantum leap. The SSD was about $180 at NewEgg. The system rebuild from scratch is about six hours plus three weeks of "Oops... forgot about that...better install it...". For the response time I'm getting now, I'd do it again in a heartbeat. I agree! My system cold starts extremely quickly! Programs load almost immediately. Love it! |
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