Greg,
Have you or any other SSD List Guru ever written down (documented) the
steps used to
convert from an EM drive to an SSD drive?
I have lots of questions!
I'm taking your past suggestion about re-using my OLD EM drives for my
pending Win7
upgrade(coming earlier than planned....... :)
Plan NOW is to use the old EM drives for 'Swap file' activity, and,
other Windows files I can/should
move back to the old EM drives (Yes, trying to limit future WRITE
activity on the SSD).
I have followed all the discussion about SSD's on the List. And, my 3
machines get backed-up
to my NAS each month, so I suspect I may loose no more than 30days of
'data.' Of course, I
will backup each machine just before enhancement/upgrade, just to be as
current as possible.
Yes, I will try to 'recover' (?) my old EM drive to use for the Winblows
Swap file, and any other system
file(s) suggested via the list.
ATM, I have 2 machines w/4 32-bit partitions (c:/d:/e:/f:), and 1
machine w/3 32-bit partitions (c:/d:/e:).
These 3 HD's are all 120GB EM HD's.
Normally I do ~40GB partitions. I can even accept 32GB SSD partitions
(128/4).
But, I remain clueless ATM of all the things to do post install.
I do believe that my current Asus P5Q3 m/b's do have 6MB/sec JMicron
drivers (not used ATM).
But I will dig back in my docs about this.
Yes, I plan to raise a newegg order for 5x Samsung 840 Pro 128GB SSD's
(N82E16820147192)
Best,
Duncan
On 05/06/2013 16:36, Greg Sevart wrote:
The 840 is a decent drive, though it does use TLC (three bits per cell) NAND
instead of the more traditional MLC (2 bits per cell) variety. TLC NAND is
slower on writes and has less endurance (~1000 P/E cycles vs. 3000) than MLC
NAND, but it's easy to overstate what the impact is. The only thing I'd
avoid is the 120GB capacity version - the firmware is stable, but the NAND
may only get you to 3 years or so under normal usage until the MWI (media
wearout indicator) hits 0. Now, MWI=0 doesn't mean the drive is
dead--indeed, there are forums where some models have exceeded the MWI by
huge margins and are still functional. It's intended to be a conservative
estimate of drive durability.
The 840 Pro is a different drive entirely, using 21nm Samsung MLC NAND.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve
Tomporowski
Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 3:28 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] SSDs and My Documents
This is really good to hear, as what I just bought was a Samsung 840....
Steve
On 5/6/2013 11:40 AM, Greg Sevart wrote:
All of them crap controllers. OCZ would either be Indilinx or
Sandforce, neither of which have a good track record (though Indilinx
far worse than SF). Your Patriot and ADATA were probably Indilinx or
Sandforce as well.
Your failures were almost certainly firmware problems, not NAND wearout.
Samsung (830, 840 Pro) is where it's at, followed by Marvell
controllers (e.g., Crucial C300, m4, m500).
SSDs are extremely reliable if you get one based on a good controller.
Friends don't let friends buy OCZ, though the controller manufacturer
is more critical than the brand label on the box.
Greg
(owner/user of: 4x Intel G2, 1x Intel 320, 5x Samsung 830, 1x Samsung
840, 2x Samsung 840 Pro with no failures)
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert
Martin Jr.
Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 10:06 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [H] SSDs and My Documents
I've had 4 SSD's die each in under 6 months. I'm not really sold on
the reliability ;)
2 were OCZ and the others were a Patriot and a ADATA. All in different
boxes and all were boot drives. I had a seagate hybrid drive die after
2 months also. All were on UPS's too.
I switched back to mechanical drives for my important machines. Don't
have the time to redo everything that ofter any more....
lopaka
________________________________
From: Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sun, May 5, 2013 6:03:02 AM
Subject: Re: [H] SSDs and My Documents
Depends....if it is going in a laptop....most folks just put
everything on the SSD. I have a 256 GB SSD in my thinkpad, so everything
goes on the SSD.
On my desktop, I used to have a 160GB SSD...so only Windows and
programs went on the SSD...all documents and stuff went on the d
drive, which is a hard drive. I now have a 500 GB SSD, but I still
put non-programs on the hard drive.
As you know, many laptops come with SSDs only....no need to worry
about writes...unless you are doing something waaaayyy outside of normal.
I got my first SSD in Jan 2011...that drive is still working great!
On 5/4/2013 9:25 PM, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
I've just bought my first SSD. Should I be moving folders like
Documents and Libraries to another drive? Whats the current status
on that? I read it both ways over the last couple of years.
Thanks...Steve
