The new rig arrives tomorrow - what things should I do?

[Owltoid]

Thanks, I'll look into that!

I'm loaded up and checking things out... I have 5 in shat but it's still laggy at times. When I view the resource monitor, it looks like RAM is around 5MB so that's definitely not the problem, but 2 of the processors are at 100% and the other 6 look to be relatively unused. If this where I need to mess with the affinity stuff?

[Sajuuk]

Switch the CPU affinity in your config.wtf file(s) to 255.

SET processAffinityMask "X" is the line you want.

[Sam DeathWalker]

No its "hours" the fragmentation problem is almost with the first write:

Since the flash locations are isolated from the OS by a lookup table, these fragments can not (presently) be directly manipulated by the OS, leaving any defragmentation efforts to the SSD itself. These fragmented areas will remain until they are overwritten by larger contiguous files. The end result is that the drive is not so much ‘adapting’ as it is approaching a steady state level of internal fragmentation as a result of the mix of small / large files being written to it.

Once the newness wore off and I got some hours logged with it, I discovered that my speedy SSD had lost some of its luster

But no matter lets see his experenice with the SSD, I am looking forward to see how it plays out in WoW.

Zzyzxx71 what has been your experience with the SSD drive you use?

[Clanked]

SSD's are fine for read-only files. Using it as a main HDD for the OS is a bad idea because it cuts down the lifespan of the drive (and in some cases the general speed].

It is also important that Windows does not try to defragment the drive. All this will serve to do is burn through its limited amount of read/write cycles and to confuse the on board file system of the drive.

Both of you need to get with the times. SSDs have wear leveling algorithims that spread writes out amongst the entire drive. The drives will outlast the life of your computer easily. Even assuming constant writes at the max capacity of the drive (which NEVER happens) it would take 50 years for the drive to start having trouble to do writes.