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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:10 PM (permalink)
I know this has most likly been asked somewhere herre but I cant find it.  If you can please point me in the right direction.  I an getting a 30gb ssd in the next few days.  I want to put Windows7 on it as a boot drive.  I have a 74gb Raptor as my boot drive right now and it also has all of my programs (Firefox, Nero, etc).  Do I have to reinstall all of my programs?  or do I wipe the Raptor and start over?  What sort of problems do you see me running into?
Thanks in advance for your help...I am going to work for the next 12 hours and have no internet access.

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    Re:Windows7 and ssd question Tuesday, March 16, 2010 4:42 PM (permalink)
    The Minimum system requirments for Windows 7 are 16Gb for 32 bit, and 20GB for 64 bit, that does not leave you a lot of space on a 30GB SSD, Some programs will force all or part of their install onto the system disk. Plus the smaller your HDD is the quicker it will degrade due to writes, trim will help since your running 1 SSD, but I would still consider a 40G a better Min, with a 80G if you can spare the change.  2(30G ) in raid would work, but Trim is not supported in Raid, it would however be twice as fast. 2 30G vertex's are about $115 each on sale, for about $12 more an intel X25M-g 80G would be a better option. as you would pick up 20G for $12. and hitting a 7.8 on WEI for the HDD score. 
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    Re:Windows7 and ssd question Tuesday, March 16, 2010 5:44 PM (permalink)
    I have not used SSD but I know most people once they do, are sold on them.

    As an experiment -
    What if you left system on Raptor and move everything you can onto SSD? for now anyway.
    Sometimes two independent drives can be made to compliment and work as well or better than stripe.

    I use 150GB V-Raptor w/ 75GB used (I have 30GB allocated for restore points) running 7 x64.
    Office 2010, 3DMark, and misc small applications; all data is on 2nd drive.
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    Re:Windows7 and ssd question Tuesday, March 16, 2010 6:56 PM (permalink)
    Read all the threads on these two SSD forums, then find Intels SSD forum as well to know what to expect......
     
     
     
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