RockMic Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 Hello, my problem is very simple my primary disk in an old WD decided to abandon me and so I have to replace it with what. My motherboard is an asus striker 2 formula and I do not have a lot of ability to pay my interest would be to opt for a SSD but I can do?After much research, it would seem so, however, I have doubts and I would like the opinion of someone who is more experienced in this field and who could kindly give me some advice.In my country, I found this Kingston SSD V300 120GB 2.5-7mm can I fit?The price is cheap.Or should I turn my gaze on a traditional HD what to do?Thanks for any reply.
prideslayer Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 What do you want? More space, or faster load/boot times? Spinning disk for the first, SSD for the second.
Slammer64 Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 It'll fit with a bay adapter, usually about $5 U.S. and if your other drive is still operational, you can use Macrium Reflect Free edition to clone it over. I've moved to a SDD as my primary HD with a 3TB regular drive for mass storage.
RockMic Posted May 21, 2014 Author Posted May 21, 2014 I just wanted to know the motherboard itself could go, I was looking boot speed and about 120 GB of space.No HD old and dead.thanks for asking.
prideslayer Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 The motherboard doesn't care. If it can use SATA drives, SSD or not doesn't matter.
Slammer64 Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 It would help if the motherboard supported AHCI, but it's not required.
RockMic Posted May 21, 2014 Author Posted May 21, 2014 Glad to hear it, thanks.As the primary IDE I have these optionsCHSLBALARGEAUTOI do not see AHCIThank you.
prideslayer Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 You don't have AHCI on that board. Set that setting to auto and ignore it, don't think it's relevant here (think that's for the PATA stuff, not SATA).
Slammer64 Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 It is Pride, he doesn't need to concern himself with it.
prideslayer Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 Thanks for confirming. Been ages since I hooked up a PATA drive to anything but my external usb deal.
Slammer64 Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 Well, not to get off topic here Pride, but I'm a one-man IT Dept. SysAdmin, DB Admin, Network Tech, you name it.
prideslayer Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 Same, just tossed all my PATA junk a long time ago, and made sure we didn't get anything that old when we built out the rack for the office. FC SAN all the way! Well until you hit the drives. Got one array full of SATA drives and one full of nearline SAS even though the HP VAR said the two would be identical *shakes fist*.
Slammer64 Posted May 21, 2014 Posted May 21, 2014 I remember reading about your travails there Pride, I just wish my company could afford stuff, I work for a small religious non-profit and I scrape, scrounge, beg, borrow and steal the parts we need. I have to make due with donated equipment, it can be tough at times.
RockMic Posted May 30, 2014 Author Posted May 30, 2014 Um, so that the SSID has arrived and I installed windows 7 samba so good, but at every boot I have to enter the boot menu and indicate the SSDThe system not only can not find the part to boot.What can be wrong?Thank you.
samhain6 Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 Um, so that the SSID has arrived and I installed windows 7 samba so good, but at every boot I have to enter the boot menu and indicate the SSD The system not only can not find the part to boot. What can be wrong? Thank you. Have you checked the boot order in the BIOS (ensure the SSD is listed at the top)?
Slammer64 Posted May 30, 2014 Posted May 30, 2014 When installing Win7 on a SSD, the only things that should be hooked up are the SSD and your DVD-ROM drive, other wise you get errors. Here's a good guide on how to install: http://www.overclock.net/t/1156654/seans-windows-7-install-optimization-guide-for-ssds-hdds
RockMic Posted May 30, 2014 Author Posted May 30, 2014 It would have been nice if there was written SSD. Thanks for the guide.
Rayblue Posted May 31, 2014 Posted May 31, 2014 Furthermore, as SSDs are a different animal, you cannot defrag an SSD drive. I also insist on using AHCI in order to enable functions that can extend the SSD's lifetime.
RockMic Posted June 1, 2014 Author Posted June 1, 2014 Apparently resolved as I do not ever give anything for granted.He was put in the menu of the bios first SSD.
Rayblue Posted June 1, 2014 Posted June 1, 2014 Enabling AHCI is found in your PC's BIOS settings. If all of your drives are SATA, Windows 7 will switch automatically to AHCI once it sees it's on. This also turns on the TRIM function to keep the drive ok and make it last longer.
RockMic Posted June 1, 2014 Author Posted June 1, 2014 I think my motherboard does not have that option, I can not find.
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