Just Got a Solid State Hard Drive

[gatormoe1]

My HD crashed at a bad time and it caused my motherboard to get all whacked out as well so I had an excuse to upgrade my computer. I bought an SSD and man am I ever happy I did it. I use it to load up windows and I can restart the computer and be back into my operating system in just over 15 seconds.

Anyone else have an SSD?

[G8RBrave]

Yeah, I have one. My Win 7 box screams on it. It really is incredible how fast apps load. I'm using the newest version of Adobe Photoshop (CS5) which loads in less than 2 seconds. On my old box it would take 10+.

[SAEGator]

Yes and thier great, just a FYI if you used to defrag your drive and were thinking about doing it now with the SSD don't, you are simply reducing the life of the drive. Also a word of caution is to backup your data more regularly as the SSD is a more fragile disk and runs a higher risk of failing.. that being said I would still buy another one

[G8RBrave]

Originally Posted by SAEGator

. Also a word of caution is to backup your data more regularly as the SSD is a more fragile disk and runs a higher risk of failing.. that being said I would still buy another one

That may have been true in the beginning, but as the tech advances has become less so from what I've read. The current difference in SSD vs traditional HDD failure rates is fairly negligible.

Still, it's never a bad idea to back up frequently.

[gatormoe1]

Originally Posted by SAEGator

Yes and thier great, just a FYI if you used to defrag your drive and were thinking about doing it now with the SSD don't, you are simply reducing the life of the drive. Also a word of caution is to backup your data more regularly as the SSD is a more fragile disk and runs a higher risk of failing.. that being said I would still buy another one

Solid State Drives have no moving parts, so in theory they actually should last longer. Windows 7 defrags your disks every week or so automatically though.

[wcj786]

Solid State Drives have no moving parts, so in theory they actually should last longer. Windows 7 defrags your disks every week or so automatically though.

This depends on whether you have set up your BIOS properly. If you have the SSD format set to AHCI, Windows is not supposed to defrag the drive. That is the reason they recommend you set up the SSD as AHCI in the first place.