new computer

[Ethan]

:o
so how do I do that (im getting the z68 board)

Hold up, I'm in class at the moment. I'll find you a thing soon :)

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[Brian Smithers]

Hold up, I'm in class at the moment. I'll find you a thing soon :)

oh lol :o

[Brian Smithers]

u out yet?

[Ethan]

Here's something I wrote about SSD's and SRT technology a while back:

SSD stands for Solid State Drive.
It basically is a hard drive that utilizes the same Flash technology you find on USB pen drives to make a bigger, greater capacity version. It stores the information on electrical chips, instead of big magnetic platters. The advantages are:

Faster (electricity is faster than a read/write head moving along a CD like thing)
More reliable (no moving parts means less can go wrong)
Sturdier (again, no moving parts, so moving/banging it accidentally won't do much)
Smaller

Thus, they are expensive. That's why people use them to install their OS and programs for fast booting/running, but since they are so expensive, they get a bigger, standard hard drive for all their data.

Some external hard drives also use this technology, typically smaller ones, and ones that don't need separate power cords in conjunction to the USB cords.

There are numerous applications for this technology:

You can use it as a boot drive, installing OS and programs, then everything else on a bigger, slower, cheaper standard hard drive. The advantage of this is you get 8 or so second boots into Windows 7, and all your programs launch about 5 or so times faster, sometimes even faster than that. The disadvantage is that your data is still slow, and once it's full, it's full. All the rest has to be installed on the standard hard drive.

You can use it as a SRT drive (only if you have Z68 or later Intel chipsets on your motherboard). This means that you use the SSD as well as a standard hard drive, however the SSD is used as a caching device for the HDD. This pretty much speeds up the entire capacity of the HDD to speeds of the SSD, or if not full speed, close enough. So say you want to copy some files with your hard drives set up like this. Your SSD is invisible in your "My Computer" box, and only your big hard drive is there. You copy them on to the big hard drive, and they go on to the SSD instead, therefore copying super super fast. The SSD then holds on to them, and copies them to your big hard drive in the background. This is the slow part of the process, but since they have already copied to the SSD, and therefore in to the cache, to you they are already copied and this part doesn't affect you, and you can carry on with your work. That's what a SSD, HDD and Intel SRT technology can do, lol. Bit complicated, hopefully you understand.

EDIT: This also means that you can add extra HDDs later on to increase your storage space without losing data or affecting anything

I'll go find you an appropriate SSD if you wish to do this.

[Mr.jacksaunt]

Damn that's cool :o

[Ethan]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227801
This is a good quality one, and with the rebate it's only $50. Good deal.

[Brian Smithers]

Idk, it sounds hard to setup, and this is my first computer I'm building. So Im going to keep it simple. Also, windows is only 4.56GB so it's fine. :| Thanks though. Though I may want to use an Solid State Drive for my harddrive, or is that not possible?

[Ethan]

Idk, it sounds hard to setup, and this is my first computer I'm building. So Im going to keep it simple. Also, windows is only 4.56GB so it's fine. :| Thanks though. Though I may want to use an Solid State Drive for my harddrive, or is that not possible?

It's easy to set up, you just install your OS as usual on to the big hard drive, without the SSD plugged in. You then go into Windows, install the utility, and plug in the SSD with the computer turned off. Either that or you plug it in then install the utility, can't remember. It's really easy though, I didn't think it would be lol.
Windows, with all it's files when it's installed and expanded, can be 12gb to 16gb.
Yeah, you can use an SSD as your hard drive, but they are expensive for big capacities. A 480GB one is around $400.

[Brian Smithers]

It's easy to set up, you just install your OS as usual on to the big hard drive, without the SSD plugged in. You then go into Windows, install the utility, and plug in the SSD with the computer turned off. Either that or you plug it in then install the utility, can't remember. It's really easy though, I didn't think it would be lol.
Windows, with all it's files when it's installed and expanded, can be 12gb to 16gb.
Yeah, you can use an SSD as your hard drive, but they are expensive for big capacities. A 480GB one is around $400.

yea the 1TB one I saw was about 2 thousand dollars
I will pass on that...

[Ethan]

So you're not going to get one for SRT?

[Brian Smithers]

So you're not going to get one for SRT?

I might later on, but for now I think no.

[Ethan]

Ok, up to you.

[Brian Smithers]

ok, so this is my final build. because now I have to start saving up.
thanks for helping :) Ill post back when i buy the parts