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9/19/12 at 11:16am
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I have a little dillema here. I have a Mushkin Enhanced Chronos 60gb SATA III Asynchronous with the os in it and a SAMSUNG 830 256gb coming tomorrow. I'm planning on ordering a SAMSUNG 830 126gb in 2 weeks.
Should I keep my OS on the Mushkin until I get the SAMSUNG 830 126gb and put my games on the SAMSUNG 830 256gb or install the OS on the SAMSUNG 830 256gb?
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post #2 of 12
9/19/12 at 11:20am
From what i understand the larger an ssd is the faster the reads and write. so yes. or... wait, oreder another 256, raid 0 it. Boot time? What's that?
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post #3 of 12
9/19/12 at 11:43am
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I have a little dillema here. I have a Mushkin Enhanced Chronos 60gb SATA III Asynchronous with the os in it and a SAMSUNG 830 256gb coming tomorrow. I'm planning on ordering a SAMSUNG 830 126gb in 2 weeks.

Should I keep my OS on the Mushkin until I get the SAMSUNG 830 126gb and put my games on the SAMSUNG 830 256gb or install the OS on the SAMSUNG 830 256gb?

Just keep the OS on the Mushkin and use the Samsung 830 256GB for games. It'll be easier to just clone the 60GB to the Samsung 830 128GB later. Since OS files, etc are fairly compressible, I reckon performance you're getting from the Chronos is pretty decent already.
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post #4 of 12
9/19/12 at 12:19pm
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Just keep the OS on the Mushkin and use the Samsung 830 256GB for games. It'll be easier to just clone the 60GB to the Samsung 830 128GB later. Since OS files, etc are fairly compressible, I reckon performance you're getting from the Chronos is pretty decent already.
So should I stay with the Chronos than and forget about the Samsung 830 128GB?
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post #5 of 12
9/19/12 at 12:49pm
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So should I stay with the Chronos than and forget about the Samsung 830 128GB?

That depends. How much space do you need for your OS drive? For me, a 60GB SSD is just too small to be comfortable for OS+Programs (particularly after several months worth of Windows updates). I find a 120/128GB SSD (well, just 100GiB formatted capacity really) ideal for sufficient breathing room. Right now, I'm using around 90GiB on my OS/Programs drive (granted, around 10~20GiB of that probably consists of scratch/temp files).
Edited by rui-no-onna - 9/19/12 at 12:53pm
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9/19/12 at 12:56pm
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That depends. How much space do you need for your OS drive? For me, a 60GB SSD is just too small to be comfortable for OS+Programs (particularly after several months worth of Windows updates). I find a 120/128GB SSD (well, just 100GiB formatted capacity really) ideal for sufficient breathing room. Right now, I'm using around 90GiB on my OS/Programs drive (granted, around 10~20GiB of that probably consists of scratch/temp files).
I only need about 30gb for an OS drive.
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9/19/12 at 1:22pm
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I only need about 30gb for an OS drive.

Then I say just stick to the Chronos until you need the extra space or the drive fails. At the rate things are going, you might get a second Samsung 830 256GB (or whatever newer model is available at the time) for the same price as that 128GB now.
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9/19/12 at 1:35pm
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I only need about 30gb for an OS drive.

Then I say just stick to the Chronos until you need the extra space or the drive fails. At the rate things are going, you might get a second Samsung 830 256GB (or whatever newer model is available at the time) for the same price as that 128GB now.
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9/20/12 at 12:10am
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Well this what I'm going to do then. Samsung 820 128gb for the os and 2 games (WOW and Diablo 3) and the Samsung 256gb for my steam games.
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9/20/12 at 6:53am
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Well this what I'm going to do then. Samsung 820 128gb for the os and 2 games (WOW and Diablo 3) and the Samsung 256gb for my steam games.

That works, too. Move the Chronos to a SATA2 port. With the limited number of NAND Flash, it's likely not even saturating SATA2 and SATA2 is good enough for an OS.
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