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Fear

Fear

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If you are only putting games on there do you really want to have 2 copys ? just seems a waste of a drive to me i can understand it for backing up important pictures, video and documents.
 
Sleinous

Sleinous

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Teaz said:
PCS should disble defrag for you FacetiousPizza as defraging is indeed not very good for the SSD's health. Well...it will live but it will just degrade 1 of its many 42157325+ write lives you could say lol. the ssd life is like determind by the number of writes to the drive and defragin will perform a large number of write operations to large portions of the drive so no real benefit you could say.

You may want to call up PCS for that as i remeber seeing someone on the forum that requested PCS to do the push an pull config for the rad. both coolit eco will come standard without any push or pull config besides having the provided attached fan which is treated as the pull. So you can call up PCS first thing Tue to request it which im sure should be okay with them. Its a pretty simple task and not too hard. Im just told several times to get good decent low rpm fans for the push an pull config as something too powerful will bottleneck the rad apparently.
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When you install an SSD as your boot drive all those features such as disk defrag, boot prefetching, application launch prefetching, ReadyBoost and ReadDrive are disabled.

The whole advantage of disk defragmenting a mechanical drive is that it rearranges the data on the platter with the intention of decreasing access time.

Anything you write to an SSD is randomly stored and not stored in a fancy order like on a mechanical drive so you'll be doing a whole bunch of reading and writing to move stuff from one random order to another random order which is counter productive and means that not ever sector of the SSD gets the same amount of wear as you will be constantly rewriting data to certain parts more than others. By letting the SSD just get on with its life and garbage collect after itself when sequentiially writing and enabling TRIM you can keep your SSD 'clean' in your mind.

Some of teh latest SSDs have over 3000+ write cycles to each sector, if you keep defragging and trying to move data to nicely organised parts of the SSD only one or two sectors will keep getting written to which means you're effectively using your 3000 cycles up super fast on just one portion.

By disabling disk defrag in Win7 and other OS's youre ensuring that this cant happen.

Lastly, you shouldnt have much need for defragging most modern mechanical drives either now unless you do ALOT of file moving writing / rewriting as the NTFS system is alot better at cleaning up after itself than teh old FAT/FAT32 systems.
 
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FacetiousPizza

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Thanks for the opinions, I was led to believe by a friend that having the two drives in a RAID 1 setup would lead to much better performance. If this is not the case then I will have 1 drive for the games and another drive for all of my other files.
 
LinearHD

LinearHD

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FacetiousPizza said:
Thanks for the opinions, I was led to believe by a friend that having the two drives in a RAID 1 setup would lead to much better performance. If this is not the case then I will have 1 drive for the games and another drive for all of my other files.
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I think he might have meant Raid0...
 
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FacetiousPizza

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Well, he just said RAID, so I figured either config would work. However, I don't want to go the RAID 0 route just incase one of the drives fails.
 
Fear

Fear

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FacetiousPizza said:
Well, he just said RAID, so I figured either config would work. However, I don't want to go the RAID 0 route just incase one of the drives fails.
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I don't think it makes much difference anyway, the raid 0 i had does not seem much different now that i have the drives seperate.
 
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FacetiousPizza

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Order amended yet again :D This time I removed the keyboard and mouse, as I recieved a very nice offer on some Razer products. Sorry PCS, but the price was too good to pass up!
 
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icurtis

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Good news for you FacetiousPizza - how's that excitment level now???
I hope that means mine will enter building soon
 
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FacetiousPizza

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Haha, I just got round to looking at the specs of the laptop I'm currently using (my parents bought me it for university), no wonder it struggles doing pretty much anything :D

CPU: AMD Turion X2 2.1GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 256MB 8200M
RAM: 4GB DDR2 400MHz
HDD: 250GB 5,400RPM drive
SCREEN: 15.6" 1366 x 768
OS: Windows Vista Home Basic 32-bit

So, am I going to notice much of a performance boost going from this to my new desktop? :D
 
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kriwad

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The first x86 PC I ever bought was an SX2/50Mhz (not even a maths co-processor on that lol) with a 250MB HDD and a sweet 4MB of RAM. GPU was something we said to our mates who needed a shower.
You whippersnappers with your haytch dees and your ipods.. *grumble grumble*

So, am I going to notice much of a performance boost going from this to my new desktop?
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It's a nice machine and you know it! :rockon:
 
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FacetiousPizza

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So, I'm thinking of changing the case fans once my PC arrives, add some LED fans in there. The fans I have in mind are the Silverstone Air Penetrator fans, but I have no idea how many, or what size I should get.

Ideally I would like to get as many of the biggest size the case can fit without modifying the case, so is anyone able to tell me how many of each size? Also, do I need to buy different fans for intake and exhaust, or would I just have to mount the fan differently?

Finally, since I'm getting the Coolit C240, dos anyone know if any of the fan mounts will be blocked by the radiator?

Thanks for any help you can give. :)
 
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