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    Need some advice with SSD and NP9170

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Exposed88, May 8, 2012.

  1. Exposed88

    Exposed88 Notebook Consultant

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    I'm getting a laptop with 2 HDD bays and I bought a 256 m4 as my main drive, I have old OCZ agility laying around 60gb, I would like to divert all my temp files onto the ocz drive because I don't care for the life of it/etc. How would I do so?



    I basically wanna put anything that writes to much on the OCZ, any tips appreciated!



    And another question is, am I going to be running the BIOS setting in AHCI? or IDE?(I have 1 in my desktop atm, I think its running AHCI since its a non-member of my raid 0 HDD's, just want to confirm)



    Thanks
     
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  2. Kraszus

    Kraszus Notebook Geek

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    256 gb is seriously enough space for you in total? lol
     
    Kraszus, May 8, 2012
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  3. sk3tch

    sk3tch Notebook Deity

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    Don't worry about writes/etc. - just use your drive. They are built to be used!

    You definitely want the M4 as your boot/main drive - so just use that old OCZ Agility 60GB as a drive for storing games or something. Granted, that's only like 3-4 games these days...but it's better than nothing and you do have 256GB on that M4 so in total you'll be pretty set. :)
     
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  4. Tmets

    Tmets De-evolving to Amoeba

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    Yes, you want AHCI for SSDs.
     
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  5. Exposed88

    Exposed88 Notebook Consultant

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    Yeah 256gb for my games/ect is plenty, movies can go on external

    Probably won't even put the agility in then lol
     
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  6. Support.3@XOTIC PC

    Support.3@XOTIC PC Company Representative

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    Get a little program called SSD tweaker, it will turn off Windows functions like super fetch and will help cut down on read/writes to the SSD
     
    Support.3@XOTIC PC, May 9, 2012
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