60gb as a boot drive is too small

[Irocing]

When I ran my 320G Raptors in Raid0 it gave me 320G.

This explains it pretty good when the light comes on.

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/...vels-tutorial/

Just Funnin.
Later

[Drdeath]

This explains it pretty good when the light comes on.

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/...vels-tutorial/

Just Funnin.
Later

I understand Raid0 and Raid1. I probably needed to extend the drive and just assumed it was 320G.

[Deton]

Hope this vid shred some light for you guys....especially @ 6mins mark.

[bullydog]

Hey guys! thank you so much for all those valuable contributions, i just got myself a Corsair Force GT 120gb! That Red drive looks pretty slick
After reading all your inputs especially RAID0 setup, removing windows restore point etc... and Bill Gate's SSD guide on creating a 20gb partition to maintain the condition of the SSD was really helped with the decision making.

Anyway what really simplified the decision was my current 60gb drive performance is absolutely miserable, the sequential write speed is a pathetic 70+mb on crystal mark nothing something to be really proud about. Anyway I'm gonna take this 60gb drive and put it into my Playstation 3 as those drives in the Playstation is stone stuff that should belong in the museum LOL

[bullydog]

For now, if you haven't done it yet, turn off system restore and delete all current restore points. Then move your library files, My Docs, Music, pictures, videos to the spinning drive. Really simple to do. These two actions should free up a considerble amount of space for you.

Thanks Kipper this was really helpful, I did as you recommended and it instantly released an additional 1gb into my OS drive

[realneil]

and Bill Gate's SSD guide on creating a 20gb partition to maintain the condition of the SSD

Actually it said to leave that much of your drive "un-partitioned" and unused. There is a difference,.......

shrinking by 20% is not a necessity but its good practice if you can afford the space it will keep top performance of the drive much longer as well as make the nand's lifespan more than double. this is why enterprise drives are over provisioned 20 to 50%. search anand he explains it and trust me it makes a huge difference.

if you take the 20% away when formatting it from within Windows before installation then windows will create the separate boot partition we are trying to avoid

[Bill Gates]

2 x 60G in raid0= 60G. You do not get 120G.

You do not get 120G

yes you do. liberal math again? you will get double the capacity....dumbell!

[Bill Gates]

bullydog do this:
to reclaim some space open cmd and type "powercfg -h off" you will regain as much space as the capacity of your RAM in your case 8gb. Consider turning off page file you most likely do not need it. With those 2 things implimented a windows 7 64bit install is only 7gb

[PoLoMoTo]

Empty your recycling bin and delete downloads!!!

[Bill Gates]

Empty your recycling bin and delete downloads!!!

hey PoLoMoTo have you turned off your hibernation file by doing this: open cmd and type "powercfg -h off" you have 24gb to be regained

[Irocing]

yes you do. liberal math again? you will get double the capacity....dumbell!

I guess the light still hasn't come on yet.

Liberals

Later

[PoLoMoTo]

hey PoLoMoTo have you turned off your hibernation file by doing this: open cmd and type "powercfg -h off" you have 24gb to be regained

No I just did. It didn't give me 24 GB but it did give me about 17 which really helped, and how do I disable the page file?

[Bill Gates]

here in order right to left:

[Bill Gates]

your page file will most likely give you 24gb back based on your ram size but it may be 17gb. then you will notice a much faster shut down / boot up when you turn off page file and a generally more responsive machine.

[Bill Gates]

what are you running for a os drive?

[PoLoMoTo]

Also when I disabled indexing I got access denied on a bunch of things. Any way around or doesn't it matter? Also why should you shrink the volume by 20%?