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my first SSD

Yesterday i got my new SSD (Solid State Drive) from intel and installed it in my XPS 430. Went smooth though i had to tell my bios to check for sata port 2 as well. Afterwards I swapped the SSD and my old boot drive, installed Windows 7 Ultimate (fresh legal copy courtesy of my brother) and was set off to play wow in less then an hour! After a few instances; checking loading times and damn! it's faster, I dived into the world of AHCI vs. IDE and how to enable it. Apperently the XPS 430 doesn't have AHCI (can choose between IDE/RAID and RAID) and in RAID mode the controller is shown as a RAID controller not an AHCI controller so i guess it's no AHCI for me (or am i just confused about all of it?).

This evening i plugged in the trusty USB pen drive (nicknamed usb stok) and booted into Ubuntu live to repartition the old HD. That's where I made a "mistake" by *not* unchecking the read-only test drive and now I have to wait 3 hours before I'm done moving 500GB from the end of the drive to the beginning of the drive ...

Should be done in about an hour so I'm going to send the PC a

shutdown -h 2:00

To save some money ;) On the saving: I'm currently trying to get the most out of one battery run on the milestone and hero mobile devices by using JuiceDefender/UltimateJuice; That nifty program can shutdown 3g/wifi for some time and then enable it again to sync before it shuts down again; pretty smart if you ask me.

Before JuiceDefender my milestone lasted up to 29 hours with sync on, wifi off, normal usage, last run it was well over 46 hours (which is still only 2 days ofc :P)!
The Hero (which is just syncing 3g' ing but being overly used) is getting around 110 hours atm! A whopping 4.5 days; When the hero was my main device i had to rejuice it every day.

Another great program is Battery Booster: Turn of 3g/wifi at night and turn it back on in the morning (this feature is also enabled in JuiceDefender if you buy UltimateJuice).

For Android users i highly recommend JuiceDefender: Use the Juice when you need it, save it when you don't!