I've got an Asrock h55m-le motherboard—it's less than three months old, still has the receipt and warranty, though they didn't give me back the original box from the service center (or maybe they just forgot, who knows?). CPU: i5 750, never overclocked, runs smooth as silk. GPU: Msi gtx 660 TwinFrozr ii OC, comes as a full bundle with the receipt and warranty.
If I were to sell all this, would I be able to get a decent 1155 motherboard and an Ivy Bridge processor for those $833? My plan is to just rely on the integrated graphics on the CPU until I can save up enough for a new card. Any suggestions are welcome, 😉
So, someone recommended I install Intel Rapid Storage Technology. Now, instead of having that "Safely Remove Hardware" icon sitting in my system tray, I've just got this little program taking its place. What’s the actual deal with this thing? I can see a list of all my drives in there, but honestly, I haven't the slightest clue what it's actually supposed to be doing.
Yeah, I just have one more question—is it normal for an SSD to be my only drive, with nothing at all stored on the old HDD, yet I still hear this clicking sound whenever I boot up the computer?
A little while ago, I heard a click coming from the drive right when I started the PC, and then again when I went to open my files—it sounded just like the drive was spinning up.
I’m guessing maybe this is just how it works since there's nothing actually on the SSD? When I used to have macOS installed on the HDD, I never noticed anything like this happening... so, is this just standard behavior?
Honestly, it doesn't feel all that fast to me 😬 Since the SSD is capped at about 500MB/s for both reading and writing—which is basically half the speed I was hoping for—it's just not hitting those high marks.
I guess my only real move is to just pick up one of those adapters or maybe find a motherboard that actually supports SATA III.
Alright, I just ran another benchmark and the speeds have actually gone up—plus, that annoying error is finally gone. Here’s what the results look like: http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/253/ssd3p.jpg
Now I'm just left wondering about that SATA info... any idea why it's showing up like that?
So, I just finished reinstalling Windows. I hopped into the BIOS, went under the advanced settings, and switched things from IDE over to SATA—saved those changes, exited, popped in my Windows 8 disc, and ran the full reinstall.Is it totally normal that the system tray keeps telling me I can safely remove hardware? Like, when I click on it, both my HDD and SSD show up there. Is that expected now that I’ve switched to SATA in the BIOS? It wasn't doing that yesterday when I was still running on IDE.
Now, I'm just not entirely sure if the CPU can actually keep up with a card like that, or if I might need to do a little overclocking to bridge the gap.
I think I hit the nail on the head after doing some digging online—it looks like I can't actually hit those top speeds because my setup is capped at an older standard, basically limiting me to about 3Gbps.
It’s honestly driving me crazy dealing with this error. I ended up dropping a ton of cash on Bezvzez—I really should've just put that money toward a new GPU instead, even if it was only about 20% faster than what I'm running now.
Man, what a joke this SSD situation is. If I’m only seeing a 200MB difference just because I’m stuck with a SATA2 interface, then honestly—what’s even the point? Why bother upgrading if the speed isn't actually noticeable? It feels like a total waste of time. Benjamin King2, I'm counting on you to help me make sense of this.
I’ve been thinking—maybe there's a registry tweak somewhere that could bump up the speed? It might be worth looking into changing the PCI ID too, just to make sure everything is running at peak performance. Here’s a screenshot I grabbed from Atto to show you what I mean.
I was messing around with Samsung Benchmark earlier, and honestly, the speeds aren't really hitting what I expected—are these numbers actually okay, especially since I'm seeing 3gb/s?
Also, it keeps throwing up this "pciide- BAD" error... does anyone know what that's actually about?
EDIT: I did a little digging into that pciide thing, and it looks like there might be a setting I need to tweak. I'd rather get some advice from you guys first though—I don't want to go poking around and accidentally mess something up.
Hey guys, just wanted to give you a heads-up—things didn't exactly go according to plan on my end.
I downloaded the toolbox and ran the upgrade, and everything seemed fine at first. It said the process finished successfully, and then gave me the prompt to restart my computer. I was just about to do that when the whole system completely froze up on me. I sat there for maybe two or three minutes hoping it would unfreeze so I wouldn't have to pull the plug, but eventually, I had no choice but to force a shutdown using the power button.
To make matters worse, the computer wouldn't even boot back up. I tried running the macOS repair tools, but nothing worked. In the end, I was stuck having to do a clean install of macOS from scratch. Does anyone know why this happened? Did I mess something up during the process?
Did I mess this up? So, I just installed a fresh version of macOS on my Samsung drive yesterday. If I go ahead and flash the drive now, am I going to have to start the whole process over from scratch—meaning, will I lose everything? I've got a backup sitting on an external hard drive, but I'm wondering... am I going to have to reinstall macOS all over again?
Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know I finally picked up an Ocz Vertex 4 128GB.
I have a quick question for you all—I was browsing some forums and saw people mentioning that you can squeeze out extra speed by installing a new firmware update. Is that actually legit, or should I just leave things exactly as they are?
Also, am I going to see a significant drop in performance since my motherboard only supports 3gb/s, while this SSD is rated for up to 6gb/s? Or is the difference just a few measly MB per second?