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Storage Just bought an SSD, anything I need to know?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by geoboy333, 1 Sep 2014.

  1. geoboy333

    geoboy333 Sometimes I say something bright...

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    Hi All

    As the title suggests, I have just purchased a Crucial MX100 512gb.

    Having never owned an SSD before I was wondering if there's any 'crucial' info I should know about installing windows on it and general upkeep of the drive.

    It may be just like any other drive but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

    A phrase I often hear alongside SSDs is "Trim". What is it and do I need to bother?


    Thanks

    George
     
  2. Blogins

    Blogins Panda have Guns

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    Just make sure your SATA settings in BIOS is on AHCI mode before installing, Windows takes care of the rest!
     
  3. geoboy333

    geoboy333 Sometimes I say something bright...

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    ah thats alright, my motherboard isn't new enough to have any other option :)

    Good to hear.
     
  4. Refugee

    Refugee What's a Dremel?

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    Hi, one thing to remember is not to defrag your new drive, SSD's don't need to be defragged and will just shorten life span of drive.

    One other thing I have read about is not allowing your PC to sleep as some SSD drives do not like it and can cause problems have a look here http://tinyurl.com/my63bp6

    I don't even let mine sleep any more just switch it off because start up is so quick
     
  5. jizwizard

    jizwizard Modder

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    Disable hibernation. It will also free up a few gb of space on the drive
     
  6. Corky42

    Corky42 Where's walle?

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    Is you MoBo the same one that is in your sig ? Because if it is then it should support AHCI, its been around since the days of Vista.
     
  7. Pookie

    Pookie Illegitimi non carborundum

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    Windows 7 and 8 are supposed to detect an SSD and disable defragging by default. But always worth a check just to be sure.
     
  8. shah

    shah Minimodder

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    I don't shut down my PC ever always in sleep mode. Have SSD for the OS and running for almost 2 years I think.
     
  9. geoboy333

    geoboy333 Sometimes I say something bright...

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    Yes it is AHCI, what I meant is it doesn't have any other setting to my knowledge where as new board have a different mode?? maybe I'm getting confused.

    But yeah as far I know it's in AHCI. Where might I look to check for this?
     
  10. RichCreedy

    RichCreedy Hey What Who

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    you still get the defrag program, but instead of defragging it runs the trim command
     
  11. Corky42

    Corky42 Where's walle?

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    AFAIK it would be on the integrated peripherals BIOS screen, under the heading RAID mode.
     

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