Harddrive Questio

AdelaisAer · 12-23-2011 at 10:47 PM

So I got my Asus finally. It says it has 750GB + 160GB (SSD). But when I go to my computer, I see this:

OS (C: ) | SDATA1 (D: ) | SDATA2 (E: )
63.6GB / 124GB | 348GB / 349GB | 348GB / 349GB

I am not entirely sure if the former is really the SSD; also, where's the 750+160 I was promised? :/

RyanC · 12-23-2011 at 11:08 PM

" Hard drive manufacturers report the size of hard drives using the decimal definition of these terms (10^6, 10^9, 10^12 resepctively), whereas operating systems and other software use the binary definition of these terms (2^20, 2^30, 2^40)."

In short, what you see advertised is not what you'll actually get, in the layman computer sense.

AdelaisAer · 12-23-2011 at 11:13 PM

Ah. Then it's safe to assume that my OS drive is the SSD and the other two are the normal HDD. Then I should probably uninstall Steam and reinstall it into the other drives and leave the SSD for important stuff only, like OS, updates, GPU driver updates, etc. Mostly due to lack of space.

**ZSimon** · 12-23-2011 at 11:16 PM

Ryan is 90% right.

I should add that there is quite a bit of space used up on those OEM HDDs by the restore-software and packages which accompany it.

My Asus G51VX is the same

Tolin · 12-23-2011 at 11:20 PM

steam and games should go on your ssd. any program that you want to run fastest goes on ssd while your data and other files go on your other partitions.

AdelaisAer · 12-23-2011 at 11:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Tolin

steam and games should go on your ssd. any program that you want to run fastest goes on ssd while your data and other files go on your other partitions.

But the thing is, it's already 50% filled. Any other important stuff would probably best go there; because if I put games there, won't that cause a space issue? Especially if I install several games.

RyanC · 12-24-2011 at 02:12 AM

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Originally Posted by AdelaisAer

But the thing is, it's already 50% filled. Any other important stuff would probably best go there; because if I put games there, won't that cause a space issue? Especially if I install several games.

Install. Play. Delete. I only keep 2 or 3 games on my computer at a time.. even if you had like 10, at 10Gb each, thats only 100Gb, right?

AdelaisAer · 12-24-2011 at 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by RyanC

Install. Play. Delete. I only keep 2 or 3 games on my computer at a time.. even if you had like 10, at 10Gb each, thats only 100Gb, right?

Yes. But I already am using 63 or 64 GB. So if I added another 100, that'd be 163~164. My SSD has eough room for 126. xD

thedog123123 · 12-24-2011 at 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Tolin

steam and games should go on your ssd. any program that you want to run fastest goes on ssd while your data and other files go on your other partitions.

you will get very little if any performance boost by games on ssd. Leave ssd for OS, large file generations (super high quality scans, 3d modelling)

Tailsnake · 12-24-2011 at 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by thedog123123

you will get very little if any performance boost by games on ssd. Leave ssd for OS, large file generations (super high quality scans, 3d modelling)

It really depends on what he has on his computer. If he doesn't have much use for his SSD outside of his OS and core apps, he might as well toss a few steam games on there, the improvement in load times would be worth it. If he has any large files that'd be better served by the performance of the SSD (Very large PSD files, etc), putting the steam files on the HDD is acceptable.

Ownaginatios · 12-24-2011 at 10:01 AM

I have two SSDs. Installing anything on the SSD will give you a pretty substantial performance boost when starting that particular program or game. But protip: if you're using an SSD with windows, turn off the page file and/or move it to your actual hard disk if you have one. Your SSD will live a pretty short life if you don't. Also, move the temp file to RAM with a size of at least one gig if you can.

AdelaisAer · 12-24-2011 at 10:03 AM

What's a page file?

Also, after installing core software and updates and whatnot, my SSD is already at 55~60%. xD It's fairly small so I won't have much space to install all the games I need.

Also, I have 16GB of RAM, apparently. o_O;

Also, just to clarify: On the SSD is nothing but Windows and some other stuff, like Windows Live Mail/MSN, Skype, etc., nVidia drivers, etc. Steam and other games are on my other two HDDs.

blackdragon · 12-24-2011 at 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by AdelaisAer

So I got my Asus finally. It says it has 750GB + 160GB (SSD). But when I go to my computer, I see this:

OS (C: ) | SDATA1 (D: ) | SDATA2 (E: )
63.6GB / 124GB | 348GB / 349GB | 348GB / 349GB

I am not entirely sure if the former is really the SSD; also, where's the 750+160 I was promised? :/

I don't see any issues... what is the problem? :s

djRAIN · 12-24-2011 at 11:02 AM

Its all there. If you keep in mind that reported capacity is usually off by about ~10% for reasons explained above.

63.6GB / 124GB | 348GB / 349GB | 348GB / 349GB

The 63.6GB / 124GB is your SSD.
The 348GB / 349GB | 348GB / 349GB is your 750 GB split into two partitions. You can confirm this using the Win7 disk management. And you can also combine them with that if you want.

AdelaisAer · 12-24-2011 at 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by djRAIN

Its all there. If you keep in mind that reported capacity is usually off by about ~10% for reasons explained above.

63.6GB / 124GB | 348GB / 349GB | 348GB / 349GB

The 63.6GB / 124GB is your SSD.
The 348GB / 349GB | 348GB / 349GB is your 750 GB split into two partitions. You can confirm this using the Win7 disk management. And you can also combine them with that if you want.

I can combine the two separate partitions back into one? o_O; How do I do that.

Also, about the pagefile thing mentioned above - what is it and how do I disable/enable it (if needed)? Because someone said it's bad for SSDs.