Tech Help... Needs To Be Simple

Post by **Thane** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 7:21 pm

Nellyboy wrote: What is it I read about ssd's that you are meant to leave about 20% of the drive empty?

If so then what is the point?

Old drives with old firmware got into serious performance issues as they got to being full. Later drives improved this, for best results you want Linux/W7 and an SSD that supports TRIM.

Post by **Clingy** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:32 am

Trig wrote: I had one of mine die but I wasnt that bothered as my machine is backed up daily by my WHS box..

Just out of interest which one were you using Clingy?

Kingston SSD Now 100 - 128GB

Post by **Trig** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:13 pm

Never tried one of those, all mine have been OCZ drives, 30gb Agility, 60Gb Agility, 60Gb Vertex and now a 90Gb Vertex2..

Post by **Dangerous Bob** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:45 pm

Are you not supposed to leave noral drives about 20% empty as well though?

Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:49 pm

Dangerous Bob wrote: Are you not supposed to leave noral drives about 20% empty as well though?

You had to leave at least 5% to defragment in Win XP and it was recommended that you leave at least 10% so not alot different to SSD's.

Clingy, the Kingston SSD Now 100 - 128GB looks as though it uses the JMicron controller that had a huge amount of performance issues. Intels controllers have implemented garbage collection/TRIM and haven't got the same problems, believe Samsung and Toshiba and also later JMicron controllers don't suffer with same issues, again in part down to garbage collection.

Post by **Rasputin** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:41 pm

<a href="http://www.reghardware.com/2011/04/07/seven_ssd_drives/" target="_blank">Good review of SSD here</a>

Just got a vertex 2e which is amazing really speeded up boot and application load times

Oh and thanks for the advice Hammer

Post by **Hammer** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:42 pm

Rasputin wrote:
Oh and thanks for the advice Hammer

No problem mate. I hope the Viagra does the trick for you.