Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Installing an ssd drive, partition and operating system, unattended

Hi, Usual partitioning/moving of swap files etc. I have read conflicting views on whether it really improves performance to have temp/swap files on another drive, I just have an SSD in my system here and it runs like sh*t off a shovel! Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of David Mehler Sent: 03 April 2013 16:10 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Installing an ssd drive, partition and operating system, unattended Hello, So the setting on zero boundaries only comes in to play when the drive is imaged not a fresh install, if so this is good, because I am planning on not imaging. How do or do you split up an ssd drive so it's operating system and or operating system and programs but no temp files or swap files and data storing on another drive? Thanks. Dave. On 4/3/13, Ben Mustill-Rose wrote:

Hi,

Just let the 7 installer do the partitioning and you should be good. If you were to image the existing drive to the SSD that would be where you would run into performance issues as the SSD will have 4K allication where as the spinning disk will have 512B.

I've personally found that installing an SSD has resulted in speech being bottlenecked by the CPU - E.G. Windows are visually being drawn much faster, but Supernova isn't able to keep up so I lose out on performance. Obviously in pure IO operations the things a beast though.

Cheers, Ben.

On 4/3/13, David Mehler wrote:

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Hello,

I've got a new SSD for my system. I am wanting to install win7 on it. I've read and heard from others that partition alignment on these drives is critical to getting optimum system performance. I've read that gparted can do this, align on zero boundaries? might be it?

I've got a grml disk that I can boot live and have it do the gparted, is it simply a matter of creating the partition with gparted setting it's type to ntfs then using an fsck.ntfs to format it? I then want to do my win7 unattended install. I've got an xml file but it erases all partitions, and formats, which I get would defeat my gparted, I'm wanting to not do this and just have the unattend file install on to the previously created ntfs partition. But that also creates a small boot partition, so I'm wondering do I have to make this?

If anyone has done this please let me know, i'd like to get the max performance out of my drive and have read that improperly partitioning can lead to extra ware on them. This is my first ssd.

Also, how do you separate, or do you separate, programs from system data when using ssd's?

Thanks. Dave.

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