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  #61  
Old March 31st 12, 07:00 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Allen Drake
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On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:22:03 +0000 (GMT), "Rodney Pont"
wrote:

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:23:49 -0400, Allen Drake wrote:

I did,
however, buy several lottery tickets today in Burlington Ma. If I win
I will cut you in for a few Mil. of the projected half a billion. Good
luck, I hope I win.


When you do can I have your SSDs :-)


Sure. If by some chance I stop moving long enough to look back. Most
likely some shmuck that can't even spell SSD will inherit them when he
cleans out the abandoned home I leave behind.

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  #62  
Old March 31st 12, 07:22 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Rodney Pont[_4_]
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On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:23:49 -0400, Allen Drake wrote:

I did,
however, buy several lottery tickets today in Burlington Ma. If I will
I will cut you in for a few Mil. of the projected half a billion. Good
luck, I hope I win.


When you do can I have your SSDs :-)

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  #63  
Old March 31st 12, 09:32 AM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Rod Speed
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Tom Del Rosso wrote
Char Jackson wrote
Tom Del Rosso wrote
Allen Drake wrote:


however, buy several lottery tickets today in Burlington Ma. If I will I will cut you in for a few Mil. of the
projected half a
billion. Good luck, I hope I win.


Your tax advisor should have told you that, since you know how to do arithmetic, you are exempt from paying that
tax.


Exactly. It's not by accident that they call the purchase of lottery tickets a voluntary tax.


It's astonishing when you consider that most governments outlaw casinos,


Not anymore.

yet the odds at roulette are better by a few orders of magnitude.


But the possible win isnt.

If they outlawed booze, except for booze made by the state, would that also be considered an acceptable role for
government?


Nope.


  #64  
Old March 31st 12, 03:43 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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On 30/03/2012 7:25 PM, Allen Drake wrote:
I reconnected an HDD that sits in a bay on a system that has that
drive installed as a backup. I did it so I could get the SSD ready for
either a clean install of W7 or alignment. At this time I am still not
sure what way to go. I have a total of 10 SSDs so far so I have to
plan on how I am going to use them. Some I may just keep as spare
hardware. I also bought a Crucial Adrenaline to play around with
sometime when I get the time.


Starting an SSD museum already? These consumer ones have only just come
out in the last few years.

Yousuf Khan
  #65  
Old March 31st 12, 03:45 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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On 30/03/2012 6:32 PM, Dave-UK wrote:
As I said before I had to stop Win7 from running the defrag schedule but
Win8 looks much better regarding SSDs.
The defrag option is now called ' Optimize and defrag drive' and the
'Defragment now...' button is labelled 'Optimize'.
On running Optimize it takes about 2 seconds to 'trim' the drive (120 G/B).
Optimization is scheduled to run weekly by default.


What is Win8's definition of "optimization" for SSD's?

Yousuf Khan
  #66  
Old March 31st 12, 05:03 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Allen Drake
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On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:43:24 -0400, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

On 30/03/2012 7:25 PM, Allen Drake wrote:
I reconnected an HDD that sits in a bay on a system that has that
drive installed as a backup. I did it so I could get the SSD ready for
either a clean install of W7 or alignment. At this time I am still not
sure what way to go. I have a total of 10 SSDs so far so I have to
plan on how I am going to use them. Some I may just keep as spare
hardware. I also bought a Crucial Adrenaline to play around with
sometime when I get the time.


Starting an SSD museum already? These consumer ones have only just come
out in the last few years.

Yousuf Khan


I simply plan to no longer use HDDs for anything more then backup and
storage devices. I have five desktops, a notebook and a netbook
sitting here along with my wife's desktop in her office that will
eventually all have at least one SSD. Once I got used to the speed I
just can't see going back to that old mechanical drive of the past.

Al.
  #67  
Old March 31st 12, 09:04 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Timothy Daniels[_4_]
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"Char Jackson" wrote:
It's not by accident that they call the purchase of lottery
tickets a voluntary tax.


I've heard it called a "stupid tax", i.e. a tax on stupidity.

*TimDaniels*


  #68  
Old March 31st 12, 09:40 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
BillW50
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"Dave-UK" wrote in message
b.com...

"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message
...
On 30/03/2012 6:32 PM, Dave-UK wrote:
As I said before I had to stop Win7 from running the defrag schedule
but
Win8 looks much better regarding SSDs.
The defrag option is now called ' Optimize and defrag drive' and the
'Defragment now...' button is labelled 'Optimize'.
On running Optimize it takes about 2 seconds to 'trim' the drive
(120 G/B).
Optimization is scheduled to run weekly by default.


What is Win8's definition of "optimization" for SSD's?

Yousuf Khan


Nothing about SSDs in Help and Support yet for Win8, either off-line
or on-line so nothing to read there.
On Googling around a bit this is all I found that mentions Win8:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_Defragmenter_(Windows)

And I found this on my search, which recommends disabling System
Restore
on an SSD. Item 3, 'The most important piece in this guide'.
I'd not heard of that one before.
http://thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/o...ation-guide-2/

And when I check my Win8 box (Intel SSD) the System Restore is turned
off by default.
So I check back on my Win7 box (OCZ-Vertex3) and that is also off with
a weird folder
icon for a 'missing C: drive'. The settings for this missing drive are
greyed out.

http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/restore7.PNG

When I try to restore from an earlier time I've no restore points to
access.
I am sure I did not manually turn System Restore off ???


Yes all true! You heard about keeping the swapfile off of the SSD too,
right? And if that is all you got, then to turn the swapfile off.

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Windows Live Mail 2009
Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 1.5GB - Windows 8 CP


  #69  
Old March 31st 12, 10:16 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Dave-UK
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"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message ...
On 30/03/2012 6:32 PM, Dave-UK wrote:
As I said before I had to stop Win7 from running the defrag schedule but
Win8 looks much better regarding SSDs.
The defrag option is now called ' Optimize and defrag drive' and the
'Defragment now...' button is labelled 'Optimize'.
On running Optimize it takes about 2 seconds to 'trim' the drive (120 G/B).
Optimization is scheduled to run weekly by default.


What is Win8's definition of "optimization" for SSD's?

Yousuf Khan


Nothing about SSDs in Help and Support yet for Win8, either off-line
or on-line so nothing to read there.
On Googling around a bit this is all I found that mentions Win8:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_Defragmenter_(Windows)

And I found this on my search, which recommends disabling System Restore
on an SSD. Item 3, 'The most important piece in this guide'.
I'd not heard of that one before.

http://thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/o...ation-guide-2/

And when I check my Win8 box (Intel SSD) the System Restore is turned off by default.
So I check back on my Win7 box (OCZ-Vertex3) and that is also off with a weird folder
icon for a 'missing C: drive'. The settings for this missing drive are greyed out.

http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/restore7.PNG

When I try to restore from an earlier time I've no restore points to access.
I am sure I did not manually turn System Restore off ???


  #70  
Old March 31st 12, 11:23 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Dave-UK
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"BillW50" wrote in message ...

"Dave-UK" wrote in message
b.com...


And when I check my Win8 box (Intel SSD) the System Restore is turned
off by default.
So I check back on my Win7 box (OCZ-Vertex3) and that is also off with
a weird folder
icon for a 'missing C: drive'. The settings for this missing drive are
greyed out.

http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/restore7.PNG

When I try to restore from an earlier time I've no restore points to
access.
I am sure I did not manually turn System Restore off ???


Yes all true! You heard about keeping the swapfile off of the SSD too,
right? And if that is all you got, then to turn the swapfile off.


What do you mean , ' all true' ? Who disabled System Restore ?




  #71  
Old March 31st 12, 11:26 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
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On 3/30/2012, Allen Drake posted:
capitol gains tax


capital gains tax

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  #72  
Old March 31st 12, 11:28 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Gene E. Bloch[_5_]
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On 3/30/2012, Allen Drake posted:
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:22:03 +0000 (GMT), "Rodney Pont"
wrote:


On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:23:49 -0400, Allen Drake wrote:

I did,
however, buy several lottery tickets today in Burlington Ma. If I win
I will cut you in for a few Mil. of the projected half a billion. Good
luck, I hope I win.


When you do can I have your SSDs :-)


Sure. If by some chance I stop moving long enough to look back. Most
likely some shmuck that can't even spell SSD will inherit them when he
cleans out the abandoned home I leave behind.


Well, OK, but don't keep it a secret. How *does* one spell SSD?

Thanks in advance, I need the help :-)

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  #73  
Old March 31st 12, 11:30 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
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"Dave-UK" wrote in message
eb.com...

"BillW50" wrote in message
...

"Dave-UK" wrote in message
b.com...


And when I check my Win8 box (Intel SSD) the System Restore is
turned off by default.
So I check back on my Win7 box (OCZ-Vertex3) and that is also off
with a weird folder
icon for a 'missing C: drive'. The settings for this missing drive
are greyed out.

http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/restore7.PNG

When I try to restore from an earlier time I've no restore points to
access.
I am sure I did not manually turn System Restore off ???


Yes all true! You heard about keeping the swapfile off of the SSD
too, right? And if that is all you got, then to turn the swapfile
off.


What do you mean , ' all true' ? Who disabled System Restore ?


Who disabled System Restore? I dunno, maybe the driver or something. Or
maybe Windows 7 does this for all SSD drives by default, I dunno. And it
has been over 2 years ago that I ran Windows 7 under an SSD. So I don't
recall what it did for System Restore.

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  #74  
Old March 31st 12, 11:38 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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On 31/03/2012 5:16 PM, Dave-UK wrote:
And I found this on my search, which recommends disabling System Restore
on an SSD. Item 3, 'The most important piece in this guide'.
I'd not heard of that one before.
http://thessdreview.com/ssd-guides/o...ation-guide-2/


I wouldn't do this, this is a safety feature.

And when I check my Win8 box (Intel SSD) the System Restore is turned
off by default.
So I check back on my Win7 box (OCZ-Vertex3) and that is also off with a
weird folder
icon for a 'missing C: drive'. The settings for this missing drive are
greyed out.

http://www.admin1.myzen.co.uk/restore7.PNG

When I try to restore from an earlier time I've no restore points to
access.
I am sure I did not manually turn System Restore off ???


Well, if yours was already disabled, then you're probably not going to
miss anything.

One of the other suggestions in the above guide was to disable disk
defragmentation, and I found that the SSD wasn't even listed on the
defrag schedule, so there's no way to disable it, since there's no way
to enable it either. The only things listed in the defrag schedule were
my proper hard disks.

Yousuf Khan
  #75  
Old March 31st 12, 11:39 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.windows7.general
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
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On 31/03/2012 4:40 PM, BillW50 wrote:
Yes all true! You heard about keeping the swapfile off of the SSD too,
right? And if that is all you got, then to turn the swapfile off.


In my case, I just moved the swapfile to an alternate drive.

Yousuf Khan
 




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