"Roy Smith" <rasmith1959@live.com> wrote in message
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> On 4/29/2010 12:48 PM, Mad Ad wrote:
>> "David Arnstein" <arnstein@panix.com> wrote in message
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>>> In article <%yZBn.45093$uf6.1018@newsfe28.ams2>,
>>> Mad Ad <~~@...madmail(at)ntlworld(dot)com...@~~> wrote:
>>>> @ the OP. Why on earth would you use software? Just add the SSD and
>>>> change
>>>> the windows (and any other) caches to point to it. Forget readyboost.
>>>> The
>>>> interface speed of any flash connector is far below that of a sata
>>>> based
>>>> SSD.
>>>>
>>>> It would make more sense to instal you whole OS, caches and all, on the
>>>> SSD
>>>> and keep a backup on one of the mechanicals.
>>>
>>> I agree with everything you write. My issue is that I have too much
>>> data on disk to fit on an SSD. More precisely, I am not willing to pay
>>> up for the SSDs I would need to hold all my data. I also find that
>>> partitioning my data between SSD and mechanical D would be difficult.
>>> I know that I want \WINDOWS to be on SSD, but there is a lot of data
>>> there that I access very ralrely. Similarly for my applications data.
>>>
>>> It would be so much easier if I could just let some (intelligent)
>>> device driver decide what disk blocks to cache on 80 GBytes of SSD.
>>> --
>>> David Arnstein (00)
>>> arnstein+usenet@pobox.com {{ }}
>>> ^^
>>
>>
>> 80Gig? I was expecting you to say you have one of these new tiny ssds, I
>> have an 80gig too, a G2 split 25 gig per particion C: D: E: Atm my
>> windows
>> is on C and has 10 gig spare, leaving 25gig for a games drive and 25 gig
>> for
>> an application drive. I dont instal anything to C program files, C
>> becomes
>> unweildy growing all the time so D and E take the instalations which i
>> can
>> monitor and adjust more easily, this keeps C reasonably static in size
>> (as
>> well as protecting my installed prog saves, setups and inis on DE if C
>> goes
>> totally tits up).
>>
>> In your case i would move D or E to a mech drive and use the whole 25gig
>> for
>> whatever caches you needed. If you really want to get tight with C size
>> then
>> use windows environment variables to move things like your desktop, swap,
>> common files etc to DE too.
>
> Having programs installed on another drive or partition is pointless
> because if you should have to reinstall Windows, you also have to
> reinstall the programs you had before. When you reinstall Windows you
> start off with a virgin registry which knows nothing about the programs
> that were previously installed. So you would wind up reinstalling the
> programs in order to recreate the various registry entries that they
> need to work properly.
Yes indeed, installing the program again, then swapping in or importing the
existing (old) setups, plugins whatever, even copying the folder over whole
in many cases, without going through long and arduous setup proceedures for
the app itself (uh hell im certainly not reinstalling blender plugins when I
can copy over my existing folder).
Its all waiting for me, I can refer to the old D drive and scoop it up into
a folder and use it as an instal checklist. On top of all that, its
organised, games and video in D, apps in E. I like it that way.
>
> The only advantage to having more than one partition on a drive would be
> to store things like mp3's, video files, pictures, word processing
> documents and things of that nature.
>
So why is there an advantage for mp3s video etc, and not my program inis,
saves, setups, filters etc etc?
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