Quote from: DaveMorton on December 15, 2011, 15:49:03 PM
Great news, Data! Just make sure to apply any firmware updates, and everything should be "hunky dory"!

Yes good advice, I've already got the firmware and tools to update it .

I was thinking of partitioning the drive too, apparently it can be done so will probably give it a go. I plan to split it into 2 equal parts, I have had win 7 on a 64 gig partition since it came out and I still have 27 gig free. I think it will be ok as long as I keep the windows partition tidy.

From what I understand, "keeping the Windows partition tidy" is a bad idea, if you're referring to defragmenting the drive. Windows 7 is supposed to take full advantage of the newer technology that's used in SSDs, making drive defragmentation not only unnecessary, but also causing the drive to wear out prematurely. In fact, several articles I've read state that Win 7 disables the defrag tool for SSDs, for exactly that reason.

Oh yes I wasn't going to defrag the drive, already read up on that being a bad idea but I will be deleting all the crap over time, temp files, old restore points and pre service pack files that get stored just in case you want to revert.

That's basically what I meant, I admit I didn't describe it very well. 

I more or less figured that was what you meant, but I wanted to make sure that the point was made, for the benefit of future readers of this thread. I knew that you knew better.

Keep us updated Data, would be interested to see how this works out

  I just read from page 1 to 9 to see what is going on, DaveM has an interesting setup.  I did notice something about page filing which upset me a bit, in the past I noticed a computer slowed down considerably and I could see the HD lite on the computer flicker, to my reasoning the sys memory was over worked and the Hard drive had to handle the extra work by reading and writting what the sys memory should be doing.  In those days to fix this problem we installed larger sys memory.
Carl2

Hello Carl, haven't seen you around for a while, hope you are having a good Christmas 

And yes I agree, if you see the computer page the hard drive then the best thing to do is add more RAM, it's still the same today.

  New Years now, we have to learn to write 2012.  Since I'm redoing this computer I made system images, bootable repair disks, drivers and ect for the computer.  The hard drive has a partition but I'd like another hard drive and maybe a newer video card.  Sata hard drives are going for around $100 or so, an Intel SSD 120Gb Santa 2 is $169, still thinking about buying it.
Carl2

Why not get a SATA 3 SSD Carl, it will work on a SATA 2 interface and also be forward compatible with SATA 3, you can't lose really. 

  I just ordered the SSD, sata2, Sata3 is $100 more, both computers use Sata 2 so I more than likely won't need a sata 3 for quite a few years and by then the sata 3 prices will be down.  My wei is low for the graphics but I don't know if I'll be able to see a difference.  I'll probably put off installing any software,  the delivery from newegg is usualy pretty quick.
Carl

Congrats Carl

$100 more for a SATA 3  , must be an Intel thing, it certainly wasn't the case when I got my OCZ SATA 3.

Looking forward to the WEI score, I wonder how the Intel drive will compare to the OCZ, you have 7.8 to beat

  I've got an Intel 160 Gb sata2 on another computer along with a kingston 60 gb SSD and a 918 Gb hard drive.  Wei is 7.8 for that computer, seems like the 7.8 and 5.9 are standard numbers for SSD and hard drives.
A raid setup still gives 5.9 for hard drives even though software will show it increases read write performance by a large amount.  I tried out the raid setup and boot time was the same as one standard hard drive.  I got fed up and got the SSD which reduced the boot time.
Carl2

  I received the Intel 120 Gb drive yesterday and installed it in this computer in the evening so it's up and running now.  It came with the cables and a software disk for instulation instructions.  I removed the old drive and placed the new drive below it (heat) and put them both in.  Disconnected the cables from the old drive and started with windows 7 in the dvd.  After the Win 7 install I reconected the older drive.
  Win 7 takes about 25 Gb of the 111 Gb shown for the drive.  The wei is 7.3 for the SSD, I'm not sure but I thing the graphics scores may have gon up also, have to check.  The rest of the scores are:  Processor 7.1, Memory 7.1, Graphics 4.5, graphics gaming 5.3, and disk 7.3.
  I installed net framework v 4 which lets me start an application installed on the old drive without reinstalling it, very nice.  I still have to find and install the Intel SSD toolbox as well as install the programs.
Carl2

Interesting Carl, I wonder why you only got 7.3 from the SSD this time.    

Is the mobo only SATA 1?

Have you not got AHCI enabled on the mobo?

  I checked the WEI graphic scores, they remained the same.  I do know the larger the drive the higher the R W numbers will be, I put in the Intel tool box, it fixed a prefetch thing.  turned off any defrag for the ssd. Ran the trim but still have the 7.3.  I'd say it boots faster, things were quick enough before so..  It may be a little helpful for some things but at this time I'm not sure which.   I have Paint shop pro, Dragon 10.1, Zabaware  and Norton which wants to be on the C drive.
  I just checked and norton Is on the original hard drive, I looked in the norton folders but I'm not sure which application gets it up and running.
Carl2