SDD, IMAC i7 + Win7 64bit and Boot Camp

[Moogens]

Hello!
Just about to buy a Imac 27 i7 with the SDD and 2TB, where I also will run Windows 7 (64bit).
Is it ok to make to partitions on the SDD for MAC OS and Win7?
Never had a SDD HD before, so just want to be sure to partitions works as always here...
Thank you very much!

 

[nobias]

Hello!
Just about to buy a Imac 27 i7 with the SDD and 2TB, where I also will run Windows 7 (64bit).
Is it ok to make to partitions on the SDD for MAC OS and Win7?
Never had a SDD HD before, so just want to be sure to partitions works as always here...
Thank you very much!

Yes partitioning the SSD works just as a normal HD. You can also use TRIM in Windows 7 to prevent degradation of the SSD over time - which OSX does not support. Win-Win.

 

[yargok]

Yes partitioning the SSD works just as a normal HD. You can also use TRIM in Windows 7 to prevent degradation of the SSD over time - which OSX does not support. Win-Win.

But only on the windows partition of the SSD, not the OSX partition, right?

 

[xraydoc]

But only on the windows partition of the SSD, not the OSX partition, right?

Correct.

However, one of the tech web sites - can't recall which one - did a test of Snow Leopard running on a MacBook Air with an SSD. They did some speed tests of the new, out-of-box machine as well as after writing a ton of random garbage to the SSD. Turns out there was little speed degradation, leading them to postulate that MacOS X in its current state may not need the TRIM support as desperately as Windows does, if at all.