pros and cons about putting the OS on a separate partition

[LHammonds]

Just to clarify my post and Vagrants a bit better...

 

In "my" situation, by adding an SSD drive for the existing C: and D: partitions, it "did" increase the overall performance of the system because of the much faster read speeds of an SSD drive over a mechanical drive (especially the old clunkers I was using).

 

Partitioning alone will not making your system faster or slower if you are using a single drive or like drives (excluding RAID). I will fore go my anal retentive nature about discussing some of the benefits to separating the partitions and defining different block sizes for things like drives that will contain many small files verses drives that will mainly be used to hold large media files in order to maximize the space being used and the overhead to manage the device. Something else EXTREMELY beneficial in the server world is defining those D: and E: drives as "Dynamic" drives instead of "Basic" drives so you can later add more drives to your system and simply expand the size of your drive letter by adding the extra space the new drive allows. ;) Not an easy task if you are wanting to expand your OS drive ( C: )

 

Over time, the Windows registry will become bloated as you install / uninstall / upgrade software. There are things you can do to trim your registry but it can be a tricky process and it is typically better to just reformat if your PC becomes too bloated and no longer performs like it did when you 1st set it up. However, if you are concerned with bootup time, take a look into "msconfig" and simply disable programs that are starting up that you don't really need anymore.

 

LHammonds

[hoofhearted4]

necroing my thread, but ive been thinking about this recently

 

so is it worth it getting a 64gb SSD and putting my OS on that and then using my 500gb Hybrid as my main HDD?

[HeyYou]

necroing my thread, but ive been thinking about this recently

 

so is it worth it getting a 64gb SSD and putting my OS on that and then using my 500gb Hybrid as my main HDD?

 

Boot times will be faster. Any programs loaded on to the SSD will also fire up faster, disk reads/writes will be faster. Having your games on a separate device will help their performance as well. (as compared to having them on the same physical device as your O/S)

[hoofhearted4]

hmm. i think im just gunna get a 64gb SSD, ut my OS on it and like Starcraft 2 and maybe one or two others. not sure how much i could fit on a 64gig ssd, while still leaving like 10gigs for expansion, but ya. i think thats the way im gunna go.....maybe lol Edited September 11, 2011 by hoofhearted4

[LHammonds]

You'll be amazed at how much more responsive the system will be.

 

I am currently using up 54 GB of my SSD (still have 94 GB free).

 

It has my Win7 OS on it along with Oblivion and a few of my most frequently-used apps (to keep their performance from slowing down the overall speed of the machine)

 

Here is what I have installed on my SSD:

• Windows 7 Ultimate
  
• Blender 3D
  
• Video card drivers and support files
  
• 7-Zip
  
• Comodo Internet Security
  
• ImageMagick
  
• Mouse and Joystick drivers / programs
  
• Paint.NET
  
• SyncBack
  
• AVS4YOU
  
• CrazyBump
  
• FlashRenamer
  
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
  
• Firefox
  
• Notepad++
  
• OpenOffice
  
• VLC Player
  
• Python
  

[hoofhearted4]

well i just found a 120gb sdd for cheaper

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227739

 

so i plan on getting that. whenever i am able to build my PC. and ya it will have OS and some games, will i benefit from having my anti viruses on there? like will scans be faster or cleaning up be faster?

[LHammonds]

will i benefit from having my anti viruses on there? like will scans be faster or cleaning up be faster?

The actual scans? No. But anything that has to load and run when the OS starts would be a good candidate for running on the SSD.

 

For example, imagine if you installed 7-Zip to your SATA drive. Your computer has been on for quite a while but has not accessed anything on your SATA drive which has now spun down due to inactivity. Now, when you right click on a file or folder to select the 7-Zip sub-menu that pops up, you might find that everything freezes in wait mode until the SATA drive spins up. That's just one of the things that might occur.

 

LHammonds

[Erik005]

This is the SSD you should get at the moment.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148441

 

Or the 128GB version if you have the money for it.

 

The m4 is reliable fast and reasonably cheap.(for a ssd ;) )

 

Or this version if you're putting it in an existing system.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148447

Edited September 12, 2011 by Erik005

[hoofhearted4]

yea possibly. i mean im worried about the only having 64gigs that it wont be enough for w7, service packs and the few games if like to have on it lol. i cant really afford the expensive SSDs. but it all depends really on how much bulldozer costs. im figuring in $400 that way i cant be caught off guard by how much it ends up costing, since its the only thing i cant really plan for yet. for every dollar bulldozer is less then $400 is a dollar i can put into an SSD or any other piece of my build (though im quite solid on the other pieces) right now im figuring around $1600 which is actually more then i planned on spending, but its still reasonable for me. id like to keep it at $1600.

 

so if bulldozer ends up being $300, then i can put an extra $100 into my SSD and get a good 128gig, which id be happy with!

 

we will see. when it comes time to build it is when i can make all the calls for sure. maybe ill just simply spend $1700 if i have to lol :whistling: