Hey all ,

just advice those for anyone looking at this drive with Poser , i have been having tons of problems in P2014 with it to the point that i am going to switch back to my old HDD which has my poser setup ready to roll.

Problems occured -

Clothing does not fit properly to A4 even though there was no problems on Standard HDD and conforming seems to produce wacky results

Constant Crashes on the SSD more than the HDD and Loading items seems to crash Poser aswell

SSD Used OCZ Aglity 3 60GB most of all there is no speed difference between the normal and SSD in Poser.

I have used an SSD from Corsair for well over a year with the Poser program installed on it and content on a traditional Hard Drive with an M3 SSD for acceleration.  I have seen none of the problems you have described and there is a definite speed advantage at some points such as start up.

That said a when I was doing the research a couple of the reviews susgested that OCZ do not have a solid history of relaibility.  The Vertex SSDs in particular seem to have a been problematic. 

If you do a google search on OCZ relaibility you will see a few sites such as Tom's hardware that have more details.

You might like to try another make before you give up on SSDs entirely.

I havent completely given up on ssd and wont the speed increase on windows was impressive boot time down from 56 seconds to under 30 

I will wait for awhile ssd's are still really expensive. if get some more funds i will probably look at intel ssd's lineup they are really reliable as my friends server has a 400gb and 250gb one alongside 3tb standard hd and 2tb hdd

@Demon2330

I have ssd in my machine too and have really no problems like you described.

Are you sure you installed V4 and all your content properly?

I see really no reason why outfit should not fit anymore because harddrive changing.

Seems to me more an instalation problem.

I have had a 120GB OCZ Agility 3 running Windows 8 for 6 months now. Have run Poser Pro 2012 and 2014 with no problems also. Although, as I have read reports that if SSD's fail it is generally catastrophically, I play safe in having only the main program on the SSD and put all my runtimes on a 2GB Seagate HDD. Easy to backup the SSD onto HHD just in case!

I also run Windows 7 on a 60GB OCZ Petrol SSD (cheaper / lower quality) with no problems. I have an 2.25" caddy in my PC and can change operating systems by simply swapping the SSD's. In my experience there is no reason that Poser, nor any other program, should run any differently on an SSD than on a standard HDD.As you note though, there is not a massive speed increase due to SDD that I noticed, just a little, plus faster starting, plus solid stability.

Other thoughts...

1. Have you checked with OCZ if the SSD firmware is up to date? early firmwares were dodgy I believe.

2. I also have my windows swap and temp files on the HDD as well, to keep junk to a minimum on the SSD. 60GB does not seem a lot of room if especially if you have your runtime on the SSD?  I can't ever remember Poser crashing on me, it's extremely stable. I also have an intel i7 CPU with 16GB of Ram and an ASUS (ATI) EAH6850 GPU

I have had one issue only, to do with shared data when swapping operating systems... A warning here (sorry to digress but it is worth noting this for anyone considering doing it)...  Do not try to share the same hard drive for data between Win 7/XP and Win 8... IT WILL CORRUPT DATA without warning! and it will not be recoverable!  It took me a week or so sorting this one out. I believe this is caused by the newer Windows 8 self healing file system as other web sites have noticed this also, but apparently MS denies this. If you do ever need to do this, give each operating system a separate HDD and hide the opposing one to each system in the windows disk manager. I have had no problems since doing this. It is a pain if you need to share data between the two though!

I have only Windows 7 and the programs set up on the SSD that is the C drive and once I had it set up as I wanted I took an image of the disk.  The reason for this is that when SSDs do go, they go completely irresective of the make of SSD.  In theory it should be relatively easy to install a new SSD and copy the image.

Moving all the temp files to a conventional Hard Drive is also a good idea, and don't forget the Poser temp files (general preferences - misc) and other programs.  SSDs are getting better all the time but there is still a finite limit to the number of writes so reducing writes like temp files can only help.

Oops! meant 2TB HDD of course.

Agree with hornet re- imaging your c: drive. This is a thing I've always done, even before using SSD's.

Best program to do this, that I've found so far, is called Macrium Reflect. The free version is all a home user needs. It's very simple to use, extremely fast, and makes efficient compressed images. I've restored images with it, and it worked flawlessly.

Quote - @Demon2330

I have ssd in my machine too and have really no problems like you described.

Are you sure you installed V4 and all your content properly?

I see really no reason why outfit should not fit anymore because harddrive changing.

Seems to me more an instalation problem.

yep pc case has drive bay's designed for SSD and my ASUS MB is capable of support AHCI and SATA III and now since i put a better controller in usb 3.0 (replaced my orignal one)