Solid State for the OS?

dmbpettit wrote in post #11055968
Not sure what this means.

MPU
micro processor unit

dmbpettit wrote in post #11060897
What do you mean by the 'home directory'?

Here is a second question. I have Carbonite as a one of my backups. I cannot tell carbonite that the images it has already backup are now on a different drive letter. According to Carbonite, they must remain in the C:/users/brian/picture​s folder. Any way of tricking carbonite? I have heard about mountain a drive as a folder on another drive, but never tried it.

Your "home directory" is the top node of your personal directory tree which contains your files, data, system preferences, etc. This isolates your personal environment from other users, and it isolates all users from OS files, shared application files, and shared data stores (i.e. music files, fonts, movies, etc.). It is also useful to keep this personal area separated in case the OS becomes corrupted and has to be reloaded. Although I use both Windows and Mac extensively, I do prefer the Mac OS X method of managing the users data as it is easier to separate the environments effectively and you don't have the unwieldy Windows Registry to deal with.

Sorry, I am unfamiliar with Carbonite and how to configure it for your purposes.

-howard

How would I go about setting up Windows 7 to have the "top node of my personal directory tree" located on a different drive?

dmbpettit wrote in post #11061789
How would I go about setting up Windows 7 to have the "top node of my personal directory tree" located on a different drive?

Google is your friend ... Here is some reading for you:

http://www.google.com …rectory&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

I found the postwhere I did my SSD vs HDD test on Lightroom's preview generation. Final outcome was that using the SSD gave a time of 4' 33" while the HDD took 7' 54". Whichever way you look at it, that's a pretty good increase in speed. And the HDD test still had LR and Windows on the SSD, the difference would have been greater if they were installed on the HDD.

I had not seen that test before Frank, a great example of a real world benefit.

Some break this down for me....how much faster is a SSD drive than a VelociRaptor drve?

I have my OS and program files on a 150 GB Raptor drive. I have all my data on two different internal and two different external drives.

Would one of these SSD blow that Raptor out of the water? If so....I want one! LOL

Also, how difficult is it to move the OS and program files over to a SSD?

hollis_f wrote in post #11062710
I found the postwhere I did my SSD vs HDD test on Lightroom's preview generation. Final outcome was that using the SSD gave a time of 4' 33" while the HDD took 7' 54". Whichever way you look at it, that's a pretty good increase in speed. And the HDD test still had LR and Windows on the SSD, the difference would have been greater if they were installed on the HDD.

Isn't that a 5400 RPM drive?

How does the SSD compare to the 10,000 RPM drives? I would like to see that test.

TGrundvig wrote in post #11144930
Some break this down for me....how much faster is a SSD drive than a VelociRaptor drve?

Benchmarks here.

TGrundvig wrote in post #11144930
Also, how difficult is it to move the OS and program files over to a SSD?

Get a docking station (USB2 will do but eSATA would be preferable if you've got the ports) and some drive-cloning software (I like Acronis). Stick the SSD in the dock, clone your C: drive to the SSD, replace the old HDD with the SSD, enjoy.

hollis_f wrote in post #11060764
Some people are worried about the limited number of read/write cycles an SSD can perform. They wear out after around 10,000. But that's still 1.6 petabytes of data on my drive. Even with a swap file on there it's going to take many years to reach that limit - by which time I'll probably be looking for a larger, faster, drive anyway.

Btw, pretty much all non-enterprise drives are 5k NAND now. And that 5k life is not directly correlated because of write amplification and garbage collection, etc.

A 60gb SSD with 5k NAND life will NOT give you 300 terabytes. It's much much lower than that because write amplification/garbage collection take a big hit.

Oh, and according to industry insiders, as they move to smaller and smaller manufacturing, the NAND life will decrease.