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I am thinking of adding a small SSD system drive to my NAS (tired of the 4 minute boot times with FreeNAS-- I want 15sec Win2008 boot times), however the only free port for it is a eSATA port. Would adding an SDD to that port via a eSATA to SATA cable that would be run externally to internally be slower than just SATA? I'm guessing not, but I've never really used eSATA before.
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# ¿ Dec 29, 2011 17:54 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:42 |
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The NAS is a Proliant Microserver N36L-- where could I find out what type of controller it has for the eSATA port? I don't care much about speeds, as anything will be faster than FreeNAS off of a USB drive for boot times and such, but lack of TRIM might be a problem.
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# ¿ Dec 29, 2011 18:32 |
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Factory Factory posted:Just looking at the spec sheet, I'd say it's from the chipset AMD controller, same as the internal ports. The SB820M the N36L uses supports six ports, but there are only four internal. I also don't believe AMD does add-on SATA controllers. I think I remember hearing when I was researching the product that the eSATA just uses the same ports as the other 5. And yeah, I flashed the BIOS to the hacked one already. Thanks for the info!
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# ¿ Dec 29, 2011 19:50 |
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If I've installed Win7 on an older SSD (I bought a first gen OCZ SSD in 2008 ) and Win7 did all of its installation wizardry upon initial installation on any SSD (including TRIM being turned on) then I can simply just clone over to a new SSD right? I know bad things happen if you simply clone from a regular HD to an SSD, but I am guessing SSD cloning is fine?
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# ¿ Aug 1, 2012 00:24 |
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I take it that Kingston HyperX 3K are decent drives? Because Amazon has a 120gb for 80$ right now, without any rebate bullshit. Edit - gently caress, the height is 9.5mm and Lenovo X230's seem to want 7mm. jeeves fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Sep 4, 2012 |
# ¿ Sep 4, 2012 17:02 |
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Alereon posted:Bonus Edit: There's a Kingston SSDNow V+200 120GB 7mm for $89.99-$20 MIR=$69.99 here. I think these are just standard drives equivalent to that Mushkin, but you should probably check to confirm since I may have overlooked something. Where would I find out what type of flash something uses? I see it has a Sandforce controller, but would I have to actually hunt down the Kingston spec sheet for the individual models off of their own website? I spent 300$ on a 120gb OCZ agility2 in 2009 so I'd rather not repeat my ignorant mistake of getting a crap SSD. It's still working, but it definitely hard crashes at least once every 5 days.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2012 17:24 |
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Ghost is a piece of poo poo. Try out making an Acronis bootdisk.
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2012 23:30 |
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I used to like Samsung drives a lot but that was before Seagate owned them
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# ¿ Sep 18, 2012 16:12 |
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:I put a Samsung 830 in my new system. Since SSDs do eventually stop working, I assume it's standard practice to back up your SSD regularly. What's the best way to do this? Could I use some free imaging software to just dump a disc image file to one of my platter storage drives on a weekly basis, or is this something to basically not worry about until I approach the known failure date? Look into making an Acronis boot disc. Boot the computer to that, and it will let you make a exact clone of your SSD onto a clone image file. Should anything bad happen, just simply reclone that backup to the SSD or another SSD.
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# ¿ Sep 25, 2012 01:58 |
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I remember when I bought my first SSD back in 2009, it was recommended to do some tweaks to Firefox to make sure it always wrote cached files to RAM instead of the HD, to save on writes to the SSD. Is that still recommended, or is it more of a 'eh' thing now?
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# ¿ Oct 12, 2012 18:46 |
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This is probably asked every page, but I remember 5 years ago or so it was recommended to do a fresh install of Win7 when going from a mechanical HD to SSD, so that Win7 could auto-detect it during installation and do the appropriate tweaks. Is this still the recommendation, or do utilities now turn on those tweaks after the fact? I need to finally upgrade my fiance's aging laptop with a new wind with an SSD, and know how to do clones via Acronis very well, but I was curious if it was still recommended to do the full install again.
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# ¿ Jun 19, 2014 03:43 |
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In the OP it says that Samsung EVO drives "and work best in modern computers". Can anyone elaborate on that-- do they mean computers that run TRIM, like a Win7 machine? Or is there any other reason? My fiance has a 2008-2009 Dell laptop I'd like to breathe some new life into with an SSD (it's running Win7 for TRIM), and the EVO drives look like a nice price point for a 240GB model versus the Intel 530s. I was just curious about the "works best in modern computers" thing.
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# ¿ Jul 2, 2014 05:25 |
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Alereon posted:That's pretty much it, they run like rear end without TRIM support. Do confirm that the laptop actually has a chipset that supports it. If you have any doubts about TRIM support I'd get a PNY XLR8 Pro instead. Most Windows 7 machines should be running TRIM if you let the Windows Experience Index thing run and then verify via the command line tool? Is there any reason Win7 wouldn't run TRIM if you do the above?
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# ¿ Jul 2, 2014 17:19 |
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Alereon posted:The chipset must support passing TRIM to the drive and be operating in AHCI mode. That can be an issue on Core 2 and older laptops, but should not be on Core i-series or later. Thanks, I forgot about AHCI-- I'm pretty sure her laptop's BIOS has a setting for that and that it is already on. Plus thanks for the heads up about the Core i chips.
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# ¿ Jul 2, 2014 17:37 |
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Alereon posted:The chipset must support passing TRIM to the drive and be operating in AHCI mode. That can be an issue on Core 2 and older laptops, but should not be on Core i-series or later. Going back to this question from the previous page-- I tried looking up the laptop's processor that I would like to put a Samsung EVO into. Only spec I could find is "T4300" which seems to be part of the Penryn "Core based Pentiums". I'm guessing these are even older than Core 2 / Core Duo, and therefore won't really work well with the Samsung EVO since it requires "newer hardware".
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# ¿ Jul 4, 2014 18:49 |
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# ¿ Apr 18, 2024 00:42 |
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Alereon posted:That is the newest Core 2 Duo so may support it, check if Device Manager reports the SATA controller is running in AHCI mode. If not, check the BIOS to see if it has an option to toggle the SATA controller into/out of AHCI mode. This exactly narrowed down what I needed to look for, as the laptop has a AHCI SATA driver and the BIOS has AHCI set to on, which is the factory default. Thanks! I'm glad I'm able to buy her this newer SSD, as she may just upgrade her laptop in a year or two and it would be nice to save a little money by migrating over the SSD I buy for her now.
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# ¿ Jul 4, 2014 20:10 |