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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
The other advantage of your proposed approach is that you can make easy backups of the C: drive to the D: drive for system restores. Windows 7 bare metal backups are a wonderful thing to have when something bad happens.
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On a desktop I've always been reluctant to load all my program files on the same drive as the OS. Not sure how I developed that habit, but as you say taking images of the boot drive becomes easier.
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Well that bit of information brings up another interesting scenario as a 60GB SSD in my mind is not really sufficient as a primary drive (for me) and that would be a case for myself where if that was my only option, an SSD of that capacity paired with a mechanical harddrive with SmartResponse might make sense. SmartResponse was developed with small SSDs such as this in mind and as a hybrid solution for those who could not afford larger SSDs when prices were a bit more astronomical even a year ago.
I do own a 60GB SSD but it's in a Netbook with a RT Se7en Lite copy of Windows 7 that cuts it down to about 10GB only. That might be something for you to consider with such a small SSD. http://www.rt7lite.com/ |
Yeah, I think we differ in how we normally structure the data on a desktop. Honestly I consider 60GB a perfectly adequate size to house just the OS and a few other programs. That link looks very interesting though - I'll check that one for sure!
But you've made my 60GB SSD feel very inadequate now, poor thing. I hope he doesn't suffer from performance issues when the time comes.