SSD drives - system or data?

[Cosmin]

Damn, found Crucial M4 512GB on sale with £300. Must... resist...

[Zekk Pacus]

Disable things in BIOS that you don't need, like third party drive controllers and USB controllers if you're not using them, ditto PCI controllers. Every single one of those increases your BIOS load times.

[Serious Bob]

I had disabled most shit I didn't use, but checked up on usb and disabled usb legacy support. Don't need that shit. Incidentally probably why sleep mode was fucked on this comp too. I never knew.

I only have one entry for usb controllers. Is this just to run usb stuff before windows loads? I figure if I want to boot from usb I need to have this enabled. Will check.

I also seem to be using the marvell sata ports for my regular drive. Will probably move it to the intel together with the ssd. Thanks for the tips zekk.

[Frug]

speaking of broken sleep mode, my comp doesn't go to sleep at all no matter what I try to do to it. At most it will turn the screen off and on again. Must try tinkering with BIOS.

[Zekk Pacus]

Sandy Bridge has issues with sleep and overclocking - I've seen a number of Sandy overclocked machines be completely unable to wake from sleep, mine included. It just dies - keeps running but refuses to wake up.

[Serious Bob]

Got the boot time down to 40s from 1:15, with the ssd + a couple of tweaks. I made some sacrifices: I can no longer use cds. But I can't remember when i last did anyways. If it's crucial it's just a (quick) reboot away.