Installing an ssd drive, partition and operating system, unattended
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.
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 <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
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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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 <ben@benmr.com> 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 <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
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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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 <ben@benmr.com> 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 <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
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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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 <ben@benmr.com> 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 <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
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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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 <ben@benmr.com> 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 <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
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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Hi, One thing, don't defrag an SSD drive, Win8 won't let you do this anyway. 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 <ben@benmr.com> 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 <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
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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Hi, One thing, don't defrag an SSD drive, Win8 won't let you do this anyway. 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 <ben@benmr.com> 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 <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
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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Hi, Ok, so in my win7 I should turn off swap file completely, set that to none. Are there other services I should turn off? Thanks. Dave. On 4/3/13, Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
Hi,
One thing, don't defrag an SSD drive, Win8 won't let you do this anyway.
Andrew.
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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 <ben@benmr.com> 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 <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
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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Hi, Ok, so in my win7 I should turn off swap file completely, set that to none. Are there other services I should turn off? Thanks. Dave. On 4/3/13, Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
Hi,
One thing, don't defrag an SSD drive, Win8 won't let you do this anyway.
Andrew.
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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 <ben@benmr.com> 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 <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
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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Hello, Ok, having a problem and hoping someone can tell me why. I did my unattended install, it got all the way through, rebooted and blue screened. I'm starting to think a hardware driver. The only two things different about this box is the ssd in it and the fact that in bios it went from Sata-Ide emulation mode to Sata-Ahci mode. I also tried an attended install and had a set of eyes, who informed me that the win7sp1 installer does see the drive, so I am open to suggestions. The blue screen goes by so fast that it's not readable. I've read that blue screens in installs are not uncommon, this is not an imaged install but a fresh one. The drive is a Samsung 840pro ssd, the motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-970. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Dave. On 4/3/13, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Ok, so in my win7 I should turn off swap file completely, set that to none. Are there other services I should turn off?
Thanks. Dave.
On 4/3/13, Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
Hi,
One thing, don't defrag an SSD drive, Win8 won't let you do this anyway.
Andrew.
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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 <ben@benmr.com> 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 <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
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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Hello, Ok, having a problem and hoping someone can tell me why. I did my unattended install, it got all the way through, rebooted and blue screened. I'm starting to think a hardware driver. The only two things different about this box is the ssd in it and the fact that in bios it went from Sata-Ide emulation mode to Sata-Ahci mode. I also tried an attended install and had a set of eyes, who informed me that the win7sp1 installer does see the drive, so I am open to suggestions. The blue screen goes by so fast that it's not readable. I've read that blue screens in installs are not uncommon, this is not an imaged install but a fresh one. The drive is a Samsung 840pro ssd, the motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-970. I'd appreciate any suggestions. Thanks. Dave. On 4/3/13, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Ok, so in my win7 I should turn off swap file completely, set that to none. Are there other services I should turn off?
Thanks. Dave.
On 4/3/13, Andrew Hodgson <andrew@hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
Hi,
One thing, don't defrag an SSD drive, Win8 won't let you do this anyway.
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 <ben@benmr.com> 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 <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
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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Greetings, I have a first draft of the new blind sys admins website up and running. I was delayed by life getting in the way. The new design is significantly better according to my wife. I've also added some Ajax in there for page changes. I know it's absolutely irrelevant to us as screen reader users but it just breaks up the text nature of the site a little. IF I can think of an image or two to put up there to add something other than text I'll throw it up in the next day or two when time allows. If anyone wants a log in to add content please please let me know I'm also available on Skype using the name digitaldarragh if anyone wants to talk to me about the site. I have another few ideas such as adding video and podcasts to get people interacting with the site but I need to give that some more thought. Any ideas on any aspect of the site are really appreciated. Thanks Darragh Now.... I'm going to grab some lunch before I have to get back to work! Oireachtas email policy and disclaimer. http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/about/oireachtasemailpolicyanddisclaimer... Beartas ríomhphoist an Oireachtais agus séanadh. http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/ga/eolas/beartasriomhphoistanoireachtais...
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 <dave.mehler@gmail.com> wrote:
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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