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    Mixing SSD with HD

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by mthomp71, Feb 20, 2009.

  1. mthomp71

    mthomp71 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok I am running a OCZ core as boot and have it optimized....but what if you run a second Disk drive? It is no longer optimized because of registry edits for the SSD? Is there a way balance the 2 types of drive togather?
     
    mthomp71, Feb 20, 2009
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  2. ryujin

    ryujin 2B or not 2B

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    not an expert and dont take it for fact, but i would have to say NAY on mixing via RAID....but for a secondary or primary drive...good to go.
     
    ryujin, Feb 20, 2009
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  3. iaTa

    iaTa Do Not Feed

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    Just optimise for the SSD. Your second drive will be fine.
     
    iaTa, Feb 20, 2009
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  4. AGlobalThreatsK

    AGlobalThreatsK Notebook Evangelist

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    Go on the OCZ forums for help regarding the SSD and its settings.
     
    AGlobalThreatsK, Feb 20, 2009
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  5. Big Mike

    Big Mike Notebook Deity

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    As iaTa said its fine, most of the optimizations for the SSD won't have a negative impact on the hard drive. Mainly they remove small write operations like indexing, last accessed time stamps, etc, hard drives don't take a big performance hit to do those small writes like an SSD does, but not doing them is just one less thing for the hard disk to do, so if anything most of them should help a hard drive as well.
     
    Big Mike, Feb 20, 2009
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