I just bought a Samsung 830 128GB. It's still in its' box and intended to receive a fresh, clean installation of Windows 8 Pro (x64).
My motherboard is a 1366 socket, Gigabyte G1 Sniper. X58 Express / ICH10R chipset + the Marvell 88SE9182 chip for SATA 6Gb/s support.
The 9182, as opposed to the 9128 chip uses two PCIe lanes and gets the FULL 6GB/s (as opposed to a maximum of 5GB/s for the 9128). However I have conflicting information about TRIM support, the majority however says that no Marvell controller supports TRIM while others say it's the driver's fault. I am unsure how Windows 8's stock drivers may affect this.
With all that said, how should I format the SSD?
I will only install the OS on it as I store everything else on other HDDs and my current Windows partition weights in at just shy of 27GB so basically I will need less than half of the total space available.
Is it better for performance and wear-leveling purposes to create a single partition for the entire drive or to only create a 64GB partition and leave the rest as free, unpartitioned space?
Finally, should I partition using Windows 8 installer or do I need to use a specialized format/partitioning program for SSDs?
Thank you in advance!!!
My motherboard is a 1366 socket, Gigabyte G1 Sniper. X58 Express / ICH10R chipset + the Marvell 88SE9182 chip for SATA 6Gb/s support.
The 9182, as opposed to the 9128 chip uses two PCIe lanes and gets the FULL 6GB/s (as opposed to a maximum of 5GB/s for the 9128). However I have conflicting information about TRIM support, the majority however says that no Marvell controller supports TRIM while others say it's the driver's fault. I am unsure how Windows 8's stock drivers may affect this.
With all that said, how should I format the SSD?
I will only install the OS on it as I store everything else on other HDDs and my current Windows partition weights in at just shy of 27GB so basically I will need less than half of the total space available.
Is it better for performance and wear-leveling purposes to create a single partition for the entire drive or to only create a 64GB partition and leave the rest as free, unpartitioned space?
Finally, should I partition using Windows 8 installer or do I need to use a specialized format/partitioning program for SSDs?
Thank you in advance!!!