1tb evo or 128gb pro

[strykewave]

What would be faster setting up and 1tb evo for everything or using a 128gb samsung pro as boot disk and storing everything on wd 1tb 7200rpm drive. Also i see alot of posts about installing windows in uefi, is that needed for these drives or is legacy mode good enough

 

[thisguy365]

uefi is for disk larger that 2tb, ahci would be the best to use

 

[cklaubur]

uefi is for disk larger that 2tb, ahci would be the best to use

UEFI has nothing to do with hard drive (or solid-state drive) capacity. UEFI is a replacement for the BIOS. I think that you mean GPT, which is required for drives above 2 TB, but can be used on smaller drives.

As for AHCI vs. Legacy mode, AHCI is preferred. There are certain features (native command queueing, garbage collection, etc) that are disabled when running in Legacy mode which would be beneficial to solid-state drives.

Casey

 

[Dereck47]

UEFI is required if you wish to use a drive larger than 2TB as a O/S (boot) drive.
If you are using a drive larger than 2TB as just a storage/data/backup drive then it must be initialized as GPT.

 

[popatim]

Just to be clear Garbage Collection is not blocked, stopped, or restricted in any way by running in Ide/Compatibility mode. It is purely run within the drive itself.
Ide/Compatibility mode would prevent Trim from running which is passed over AHCI (and raid for intel boards) from the OS.



UEFI/EFi is a function of the motherboard and has nothing to do with the drive. Its the new Bios style.

 

[cklaubur]

Just to be clear Garbage Collection is not blocked, stopped, or restricted in any way by running in Ide/Compatibility mode. It is purely run within the drive itself.
Ide/Compatibility mode would prevent Trim from running which is passed over AHCI (and raid for intel boards) from the OS.



UEFI/EFi is a function of the motherboard and has nothing to do with the drive. Its the new Bios style.

My mistake on the garbage collection thing.

Casey

 

[popatim]

No problem and I hope I didn't come off as cross. I knew you were thinking of Trim which would be correct. I just didn't want incorrect info listed here for others. 🙂

 

[cklaubur]

No problem and I hope I didn't come off as cross. I knew you were thinking of Trim which would be correct. I just didn't want incorrect info listed here for others. 🙂

No harm done. After I posted that, I thought something didn't seem right. At least someone more knowledgeable than me came along!

Casey

 

[strykewave]

Thank you for clearing Uefi up. How about the drive setup, I also was looking into the asus raidr instead of the samsung 840 pro. Any comments will be helpful and thank you in advance.

 

[thisguy365]

Thank you for clearing Uefi up. How about the drive setup, I also was looking into the asus raidr instead of the samsung 840 pro. Any comments will be helpful and thank you in advance.

a RAID wont be as fast as an SSD, though you wont have to worry about filling it up as quickly. If you are using an amd chipset for raid it can be a bit tricky to do. when i did mine(2 500gb in striped raid) win7 setup wouldn't take the raid drivers during setup cause they weren't signed. So i had to do this whole workaround to get it to work.