Ninja

My favorite thing by far has to be the rear buttons, when I use a standard mobile the base of my thumb pushed the phone up when I try to reach the side buttons, causing me to lose some grip. Plus you would be able to easily press the buttons through a pocket!

There is a lot more you can do... Research if any proprietary features make a difference to performance/lifespan and enable/disable as necessary. Enabling AHCI and using your fastest available SATA ports have already been mentioned. Maybe not something you want to to with a 120GB SSD but you can shrink or move your page file and disable system restore and enable regular backups to a storage drive using "Windows 7 File Recovery" in Windows 8 or "Backup & Restore" in Windows 7, you could save upto ≈35GB. Disable Hibernate, normally frees up a GB or 2 Check TRIM is enabled, it would normally be on by default in Win 7 & 8. You can check in the command prompt. The TRIM feature physically clears deleted files from the flash instead of clearing the log so when new information needs to be written it won't have to format the flash in the process. Disable indexing of the SSD if you don't have much of a use for it, this will prevent automated writes to your dive whenever file changes are made even in other drives. Avoiding defrag will also increase the lifespan, SSDs store data randomly and don't need to be defragmented. Enable/disable write caching, this may or may not improve performance depending on how much DRAM cache you SSD has built in, download CrystalDiskMark and see how your SSD performs with it on and off. No install required just run the download from a folder. Do not alter "Superfetch" or "Prefetch" process values in the registry, It has been discussed by Mark Russinovich and Ed Bott that it is a myth that won't enhance performance.

This is just for fun, we are friends, this is not serious or anything we're just interesting :)

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Good morning, afternoon and evening ladies and gents... I'm looking for the best value SATA drive that is at least 7200 RPM, I know the RPM isn't an accurate reflection of how fast a drive is but it at least gives me a rough idea. Your suggestion will be much appreciated but please don't list a drive solely because it's the one you use. I have tried trawling through Amazon etc. but all that give me is 200 pages of irrelevant cables and adaptors when sorting by price... My OS is on an SSD so this will just be for storage [video/music/photo/documents/some games/some programs that I don't use enough to be on the SSD]. I have 2 IDE drive and 2 SATA drives at the moment so I plan to replace them all with one 2TB drive, one failed and kept crashing my system by streight out freezing it, even lost power to the mouse & keyboard somehow and I had to use a caddy to get the information off it, resulting in all my drives being almost full. Thanks. Ninja.

Why not say this about all forums with less topics and posts? This is a *Tech* forums not a PC gaming forum. Please do not/try not insight flame wars. :ph34r: