The Official SSD Club - Page 20

Bman212121 · 09-11-10, 09:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Bearclaw

Just ordered one of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227515

Doesn't even make sense is the funny part. Could so buy a raid controller and a few cheaper SSDs.

**bob saget** · 09-11-10, 09:37 PM

I sold an SSD i won at tweaktownforums. can i be in the club? I just needed the cash, and my western digital black is doing fine.

six_storm · 09-12-10, 11:11 AM

Besides switching to AHCI in BIOS, is there anything else I should know before installing Win7 on my new SSD on Tueesday?

six_storm · 09-12-10, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by slaWter

Yeah read this thread. Everything is explained already, over and over and over again

But I don't wanna!!!!!!

onmikesline · 09-12-10, 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by six_storm

Besides switching to AHCI in BIOS, is there anything else I should know before installing Win7 on my new SSD on Tueesday?

yeah they last 133 years so it will out last you lol

JasonPC · 09-15-10, 10:12 AM

Installed my SSD yesterday, but I had a hell of a time installing Windows with AHCI enabled.

Initially I disconnected all other drives except the SSD. But with AHCI enabled in the BIOS I got "Windows cannot be installed onto this Disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the Computer's BIOS menu" in the Windows installer. So I decided to switch to IDE mode and install, and that worked fine. But AHCI is pretty important for SSDs, so I tried the Windows 7 registry hack to enable the AHCI service and enabled AHCI in the bios. This ended up with boot errors.

Through a lot of trial and error, hair pulling, and screaming, four hours later I figured out what the cause of the problem was and how to work around it. Apparently the Intel Sata controller on my EVGA E758 motherboard has incompatibilities with the SSD's JMicron controller. So in IDE mode I booted into the SSD and moved the bootmgr to a mechanical drive that I hooked up. I then moved the SSD to the secondary JMicron sata controller on the motherboard and it worked like a charm.

Basically the system was not going to boot or the ssd was not going to be recognized in windows (if I was not booting from it) no matter what as long as it was in AHCI and the SSD was hooked up to the Intel sata ports. I hope a firmware update solves this incompatibility in the future but there's nothing on Western Digital's site for the drives as of now.

BUT even though there was much suffering involved I am very impressed with this drive even if it isn't as good as an Intel SSD. It's a huge improvement over my 7200 rpm drive. Windows updates installed in a flash and the system boots instantly. I was thinking the faster speeds would hardly be noticeable, but I was very wrong. Huge difference. Also my main goal of having a quiet boot drive was successful. No more thrashing sounds when booting up or installing updates.

mcolbourn · 09-20-10, 05:46 AM

Well I have just joined the SSD club with a Vertex 2 90GB drive.

All I can say was wow at the time it took to get windows and all my main applications installed. I don't think I could ever go back to a non SSD boot and Application drive.

**nekrosoft13** · 09-20-10, 07:26 AM

they make 90gb ssds now?

**nekrosoft13** · 09-20-10, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by JasonPC

Installed my SSD yesterday, but I had a hell of a time installing Windows with AHCI enabled.

Initially I disconnected all other drives except the SSD. But with AHCI enabled in the BIOS I got "Windows cannot be installed onto this Disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the Computer's BIOS menu" in the Windows installer. So I decided to switch to IDE mode and install, and that worked fine. But AHCI is pretty important for SSDs, so I tried the Windows 7 registry hack to enable the AHCI service and enabled AHCI in the bios. This ended up with boot errors.

Through a lot of trial and error, hair pulling, and screaming, four hours later I figured out what the cause of the problem was and how to work around it. Apparently the Intel Sata controller on my EVGA E758 motherboard has incompatibilities with the SSD's JMicron controller. So in IDE mode I booted into the SSD and moved the bootmgr to a mechanical drive that I hooked up. I then moved the SSD to the secondary JMicron sata controller on the motherboard and it worked like a charm.

Basically the system was not going to boot or the ssd was not going to be recognized in windows (if I was not booting from it) no matter what as long as it was in AHCI and the SSD was hooked up to the Intel sata ports. I hope a firmware update solves this incompatibility in the future but there's nothing on Western Digital's site for the drives as of now.

BUT even though there was much suffering involved I am very impressed with this drive even if it isn't as good as an Intel SSD. It's a huge improvement over my 7200 rpm drive. Windows updates installed in a flash and the system boots instantly. I was thinking the faster speeds would hardly be noticeable, but I was very wrong. Huge difference. Also my main goal of having a quiet boot drive was successful. No more thrashing sounds when booting up or installing updates.

not sure what your taking about, but I have EVGA EVGA E758 X58 3-Way Sli board and it it works perfectly fine with SSD on Intel SATA port 1. I have AHCI enabled in Bios for Intel and both Jmicron controllers.

mcolbourn · 09-20-10, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by nekrosoft13

they make 90gb ssds now?

yes they do now the model number is OCZSSD2-2VTXE90G

09-21-10, 10:04 AM

Just got myself two OCZ 120GB SSDs.

**DiscipleDOC** · 09-21-10, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by |MaguS|

Just got myself two OCZ 120GB SSDs.

09-11-10, 09:37 PM	#230
bob saget Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Vancouver, originally Russia Posts: 23,133	Re: The Official SSD Club I sold an SSD i won at tweaktownforums. can i be in the club? I just needed the cash, and my western digital black is doing fine.

09-15-10, 10:12 AM	#234
JasonPC Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 2,103	Re: The Official SSD Club Installed my SSD yesterday, but I had a hell of a time installing Windows with AHCI enabled. Initially I disconnected all other drives except the SSD. But with AHCI enabled in the BIOS I got "Windows cannot be installed onto this Disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the Computer's BIOS menu" in the Windows installer. So I decided to switch to IDE mode and install, and that worked fine. But AHCI is pretty important for SSDs, so I tried the Windows 7 registry hack to enable the AHCI service and enabled AHCI in the bios. This ended up with boot errors. Through a lot of trial and error, hair pulling, and screaming, four hours later I figured out what the cause of the problem was and how to work around it. Apparently the Intel Sata controller on my EVGA E758 motherboard has incompatibilities with the SSD's JMicron controller. So in IDE mode I booted into the SSD and moved the bootmgr to a mechanical drive that I hooked up. I then moved the SSD to the secondary JMicron sata controller on the motherboard and it worked like a charm. Basically the system was not going to boot or the ssd was not going to be recognized in windows (if I was not booting from it) no matter what as long as it was in AHCI and the SSD was hooked up to the Intel sata ports. I hope a firmware update solves this incompatibility in the future but there's nothing on Western Digital's site for the drives as of now. BUT even though there was much suffering involved I am very impressed with this drive even if it isn't as good as an Intel SSD. It's a huge improvement over my 7200 rpm drive. Windows updates installed in a flash and the system boots instantly. I was thinking the faster speeds would hardly be noticeable, but I was very wrong. Huge difference. Also my main goal of having a quiet boot drive was successful. No more thrashing sounds when booting up or installing updates.

09-20-10, 05:46 AM	#235
mcolbourn Time waits for no man! Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Somerset, UK Posts: 736	Re: The Official SSD Club Well I have just joined the SSD club with a Vertex 2 90GB drive. All I can say was wow at the time it took to get windows and all my main applications installed. I don't think I could ever go back to a non SSD boot and Application drive. __________________ CPU : Intel Core i7 920 @ 4 Ghz - MOBO : Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD3R - RAM : Corsair Vengeance 12GB DDR3 PC3-12800 - GPU : Power Color 6970 HD : Crucial m4 128gb (SSD),1TB Samsung F3 & 1TB Samsung F1 - Sound Card : ASUS Xonar DG - Speakers : Logitech Z523 - PSU : CORSAIR Gold AX750 Case : CM 690 II Advanced - Display : Hazro HZ27WC

09-20-10, 07:26 AM	#236
nekrosoft13 I'm Geralt Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Chicagoland, once a year in Poland Posts: 24,364	Re: The Official SSD Club they make 90gb ssds now? __________________ Windows 8 the next big failure, right after Windows ME

09-21-10, 10:04 AM	#239
\|MaguS\| Guest Posts: n/a	Re: The Official SSD Club Just got myself two OCZ 120GB SSDs.

09-12-10, 11:11 AM	#231
six_storm Registered User Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Nashvegas Posts: 11,575	Besides switching to AHCI in BIOS, is there anything else I should know before installing Win7 on my new SSD on Tueesday?