I just purchased a new 256GB SSD from Samsung and 6 GB more of the same brand and type as the ones I currently have. My current specs are at the bottom of the post.
The reason I am posting is this is to hear opinions about a good strategy to follow and if there are any "gotchas" that I would not know about.
I have never used an SSD and I have a lot of games and applications. I am planning to install all my games and most of my applications in a D: drive since my "Games" folder is approaching 600GB and that doesn't count my Steam games (which are still in the "program files" directory).
My games are GTR2 (4 installations for league racing and P&G), iRacing, rFactor 1 & 2 (several different installations of rF1), GSC, F1 2010,11,12, NKpro, the whole "Race 07 by Simbin, Scania truck sim and a couple of combat flight simulators. I am sure I am missing some.
For the regular program my most important is the Adobe Suite, but I also have several highly customized programs I use if not daily, very frequently.
I do not want to "Ghost" my old Win 7 to the SSD. I am actually glad that I get to rebuild my OS. It's time.
But also I don't want to have to spend days validating each game again. I have all my serial numbers and I backup everything.
I plan to install the SSD and have it as the only drive during win 7 64bit installation. Then I am going to reconnect my Marvel RAID that has served as my C: drive and see if I can double booth. Any problems there?
The reason for the above is that I cannot afford either not to work or not to race for the time it will take me to completely restore my ability to do either, so a dual boot would be best for me, but I am concerned about my Marvel RAID as it has been temperamental.
Anyone with some good suggestions?
Thank you for reading my post. Here are my current specs. The only difference is that I have now another GPU in addition to the one listed:
OS: Windows 7 Professional Professional Media Center 6.01.7600 (64-bit)
Processor : Intel Core i7 970 3200MHz - (OC to: 3502.34MHz) - Number of Core :6
Physical Memory : 6144MB [2 GB X3] DDR3-1600 - Corsair Dominator
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Hard Disk : Seagate ST32000542AS ATA Device (2000GB)
Hard Disk : MARVELL Raid VD 0 SCSI Disk Device (1000GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : Optiarc DVD RW AD-7260S
Monitor Type : ViewSonic VX2235wm - 22 inches
Mainboard : Asus P6X58D-E
Physical Memory : 6144MB DDR3-SDRAM
Network Card : Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Yukon 88E8056 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Mainboard : Asus P6X58D-E
Bios : American Megatrends Inc.
Chipset :Intel X58 LPC bus :Yes | PCI Bus: Yes | Bus PCI-Express: Yes | USB Bus: Yes | SMBus/i2c Bus: Yes
Bus HyperTransport: No | Bus QPI:Yes | Bus CardBus :No | Bus FireWire:Yes
The reason I am posting is this is to hear opinions about a good strategy to follow and if there are any "gotchas" that I would not know about.
I have never used an SSD and I have a lot of games and applications. I am planning to install all my games and most of my applications in a D: drive since my "Games" folder is approaching 600GB and that doesn't count my Steam games (which are still in the "program files" directory).
My games are GTR2 (4 installations for league racing and P&G), iRacing, rFactor 1 & 2 (several different installations of rF1), GSC, F1 2010,11,12, NKpro, the whole "Race 07 by Simbin, Scania truck sim and a couple of combat flight simulators. I am sure I am missing some.
For the regular program my most important is the Adobe Suite, but I also have several highly customized programs I use if not daily, very frequently.
I do not want to "Ghost" my old Win 7 to the SSD. I am actually glad that I get to rebuild my OS. It's time.
But also I don't want to have to spend days validating each game again. I have all my serial numbers and I backup everything.
I plan to install the SSD and have it as the only drive during win 7 64bit installation. Then I am going to reconnect my Marvel RAID that has served as my C: drive and see if I can double booth. Any problems there?
The reason for the above is that I cannot afford either not to work or not to race for the time it will take me to completely restore my ability to do either, so a dual boot would be best for me, but I am concerned about my Marvel RAID as it has been temperamental.
Anyone with some good suggestions?
Thank you for reading my post. Here are my current specs. The only difference is that I have now another GPU in addition to the one listed:
OS: Windows 7 Professional Professional Media Center 6.01.7600 (64-bit)
Processor : Intel Core i7 970 3200MHz - (OC to: 3502.34MHz) - Number of Core :6
Physical Memory : 6144MB [2 GB X3] DDR3-1600 - Corsair Dominator
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460
Hard Disk : Seagate ST32000542AS ATA Device (2000GB)
Hard Disk : MARVELL Raid VD 0 SCSI Disk Device (1000GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : Optiarc DVD RW AD-7260S
Monitor Type : ViewSonic VX2235wm - 22 inches
Mainboard : Asus P6X58D-E
Physical Memory : 6144MB DDR3-SDRAM
Network Card : Marvell Semiconductor (Was: Galileo Technology Yukon 88E8056 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Mainboard : Asus P6X58D-E
Bios : American Megatrends Inc.
Chipset :Intel X58 LPC bus :Yes | PCI Bus: Yes | Bus PCI-Express: Yes | USB Bus: Yes | SMBus/i2c Bus: Yes
Bus HyperTransport: No | Bus QPI:Yes | Bus CardBus :No | Bus FireWire:Yes