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new 128G ssd ... is that all?
128G Samsung EVO for $70/US. Went in without a hitch, slick as
butter. Used to do an occasional cassette, WAV to MP3 conversion, back in the day, but they're all done. I feel like a kid with a new game that can't find anybody that wants to play. Let's play "95G Free On A SSD." Got to be some rules regarding situations like this. Rules of W7 or something equally fun, like *NIX. I've been running XP for 10 years and we, me and SDD, already got to play that. |
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new 128G ssd ... is that all?
Flasherly wrote:
128G Samsung EVO for $70/US. Went in without a hitch, slick as butter. Used to do an occasional cassette, WAV to MP3 conversion, back in the day, but they're all done. I feel like a kid with a new game that can't find anybody that wants to play. Let's play "95G Free On A SSD." Got to be some rules regarding situations like this. Rules of W7 or something equally fun, like *NIX. I've been running XP for 10 years and we, me and SDD, already got to play that. Run HDTune and do a read benchmark. You'll feel better. http://www.hdtune.com/files/hdtune_255.exe Paul |
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new 128G ssd ... is that all?
On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 13:25:53 -0400, Paul wrote:
Run HDTune and do a read benchmark. You'll feel better. Think so? Already tried it: USB2 SSD - don't "get it" SSD HDD - The Best. I'm seeing around 70,000kBytes/s SSD SSD - same effectively, same SSD, just different partions;- though did briefly mount them both, last night, 64G and 128G SSDs, I have -- disappointing both ways, largely piecemeal small-file transfers and nothing steller. Not sure what's gumming up "the works," just seems things should be better - like a lot. Older MBs, of course, nothing fancy in SATA6 rates or whatever they're up to (probably lucky if mine are even SATA standard-compliant). I will say this, though, wham-bam and up goes Windows XP from a reset. Makes me a happy camper. Reason why I picked up this new one, that and older 200/250G Seagate temperatures that'll push 115F, real easy, if I don't keep a handle on it. Semi- "getting ready for reitrement" Seagates . Half off, also, with HDDSDD, my time at speeds over HDDSDD to transfer binary ghosted images of the OS for restoration purposes. T'aint too shaby and I likes it as I'm a regular binary OS "ghoster" - couple times a month, once a week - depending on how active my "intercourse" is with that She Devil, the WWW. Btw - another one. Last nite noticed I've EFI/Legacy (presumably or similar)/ or AUTO in my BIOS. I left it at AUTO. Early dual core Pentium (not the first "hyperthreading" faux dualcores) -- it's actually a PGA Pentium dually chip. EFI - you're not too crazy about it for some reason...? |
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new 128G ssd ... is that all?
Flasherly wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 13:25:53 -0400, Paul wrote: Run HDTune and do a read benchmark. You'll feel better. Think so? Already tried it: USB2 SSD - don't "get it" SSD HDD - The Best. I'm seeing around 70,000kBytes/s SSD SSD - same effectively, same SSD, just different partions;- though did briefly mount them both, last night, 64G and 128G SSDs, I have -- disappointing both ways, largely piecemeal small-file transfers and nothing steller. Not sure what's gumming up "the works," just seems things should be better - like a lot. Older MBs, of course, nothing fancy in SATA6 rates or whatever they're up to (probably lucky if mine are even SATA standard-compliant). I will say this, though, wham-bam and up goes Windows XP from a reset. Makes me a happy camper. Reason why I picked up this new one, that and older 200/250G Seagate temperatures that'll push 115F, real easy, if I don't keep a handle on it. Semi- "getting ready for reitrement" Seagates . Half off, also, with HDDSDD, my time at speeds over HDDSDD to transfer binary ghosted images of the OS for restoration purposes. T'aint too shaby and I likes it as I'm a regular binary OS "ghoster" - couple times a month, once a week - depending on how active my "intercourse" is with that She Devil, the WWW. Btw - another one. Last nite noticed I've EFI/Legacy (presumably or similar)/ or AUTO in my BIOS. I left it at AUTO. Early dual core Pentium (not the first "hyperthreading" faux dualcores) -- it's actually a PGA Pentium dually chip. EFI - you're not too crazy about it for some reason...? Machines come with UEFI now. I think EFI was the first generation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensi...ware_Interface "The original EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) specification was developed by Intel. Some of its practices and data formats mirror ones from Windows. In 2005, UEFI deprecated EFI 1.10 (final release of EFI)." I'm not really sure how many people would have one of those. I've got nothing but "legacy" BIOS here, so my stuff is pretty old. Paul |
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On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 18:19:51 -0400, Paul wrote:
Machines come with UEFI now. I think EFI was the first generation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensi...ware_Interface "The original EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) specification was developed by Intel. Some of its practices and data formats mirror ones from Windows. In 2005, UEFI deprecated EFI 1.10 (final release of EFI)." I'm not really sure how many people would have one of those. I've got nothing but "legacy" BIOS here, so my stuff is pretty old. Hm. Same here, I guess, being it's set AUTO and not an EFI BIOS selection, per se -- though figures, this Intel chipped MB being early along in the switch to a LGA (I misstated it for PGA earlier), circa 2004-2006. New Old Stock, or something, because I'm sure I'd have bought it around 2010 -- at the tail of what was left before LGA1155 dominated all brand MBs. Sounds that an AMD, say, at an earliest point will be UEFI (up from Legacy, with Intel then following in standard suit subsequently). |
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new 128G ssd ... is that all?
On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 21:04:04 -0400, Flasherly
wrote: Sounds that an AMD, say, at an earliest point will be UEFI (up from Legacy, with Intel then following in standard suit subsequently). Pulled a seagate and put in the SSD. Computer that never had one. Think the problem i first had, setting a boot arbitrator on a SSD, was BIOS switching. I'd pull a HD, check something out, and it would default back, sensing reinsertion, to some other scheme -- usually other than the HD I wanted first in order. Well, now I know to check the BIOS everytime, &i do mean everytime, i stick a SDD in one. Put some ghosted images on another SSD logical partition, also: pretty bad, not quite so bad as platters, but not much better. Decent pwr on time, discounting both a BIOS lag (DFI or somesuch) and a PCI controller doing its "thing." Slick pwr down, too, which is neat. May as well switch to SSD for all intents as an OS in plug-in silicon memory. $30-40 to do it basically with XP and probably for a squeeze on W7 until the good ones at 64G drop to a couple 32G's, like Kingston, that nonethelss will likely fill that basic function. Got 25% free on a multimedia SSD computer now: 2 relatively huge platters and the rest on a single 64G SDD. The new SDD 128G on this computer is like 90% free. Set it up for mult-stage audio processing, I do, I guess. May rewrite an audio file, for trim purposes, 5 or 6 times between what it is and what's getting done to it. Mostly laid back, so I'm not rushing huge amounts of data. Then, they eventually all go to plattered archives. Won't matter if I leave 25% free, though, however garbage collection is done -- pretty well on newer controllers by all accounts. I can use trim operatives on the multimeda 64G, but no need. Sits plenty between file copy/move/del operatives. |
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new 128G ssd ... is that all?
On Mon, 09 Jun 2014 13:25:53 -0400, Paul wrote:
Run HDTune and do a read benchmark. You'll feel better. http://www.hdtune.com/files/hdtune_255.exe Installed two versions of Samsung's SSD Magician, new ver. w/128G-SSD, and another older ver. with the 64G SSD. Both required XP/SP3. Neither would identify a SAMSUNG SSD on the MB's SATA Ch1. Loverly. Although they would read the drive's S.M.A.R.T. table. Nice to know, for that ever obsequious entry - Ready To Explode&Burn Your House Down- that a Present Value and Worst Case both are at 100. I do feel so much smarter already, although do believe I should stick, anyway, with 25% SSD raw/unallocated free space, I can easily spare, and trust Samsung's controller to do its "garbage collection" thing without an afterthought from Samsung's Magician on behalf of XP/SP3 and a convenient makeshift TRIM operative. |
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