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I have a 100 GB C drive in my HDD and rest 3 are partitions for other use. Is it possible if I buy a SSD drive and make it the system drive (C
and make hard disk as secondary drive? The purpose is to increase system's performance because my C drive is used the most by Windows 8 a nd other heavily used software like Photoshop, Visual Studio etc.
My preferred SSD 120 GB is http://www.flipkart.com/kingston-sv300s37a-120g-internal-hard-drive/p/itmdhdhgrrdccgn5?pid=IHDDHDK6XXD8RS8Q&ref=18d6edfb-aace-4740-aba0-f09fed7f9576 for ~ $100 is the cheapest in my region. I have 4 GB RAM and 0.3 ~ 0.5 GB remains unused most of the time. Usual RAM usage is 3.4/3.8 GB in in task manager.
Will SSD as my primary system drive will increase the performance, boot time, software start-up time etc.? I do not do large file transfers often.
My CPU is: Intel Core i3 540 @ 3.07GHz Clarkdale 32nm Technology
Motherboard: Intel Corporation Model DH55PJ
Hard disk details are attached below:
Manufacturer Western Digital
Form Factor GB/3.5-inch
Business Unit/Brand Desktop/WD Caviar
Heads 16
Cylinders 60,801
Tracks 15,504,255
Sectors 976,768,065
SATA type SATA-III 6.0Gb/s
Device type Fixed
ATA Standard ATA8-ACS
Serial Number WD-WCAYUK364498
LBA Size 48-bit LBA
Power On Count 837 times
Power On Time 345.5 days
Features S.M.A.R.T., AAM, NCQ
Transfer Mode SATA III
Interface SATA
Capacity 465 GB
Real size 500,107,862,016 bytes
RAID Type None
and make hard disk as secondary drive? The purpose is to increase system's performance because my C drive is used the most by Windows 8 a nd other heavily used software like Photoshop, Visual Studio etc.My preferred SSD 120 GB is http://www.flipkart.com/kingston-sv300s37a-120g-internal-hard-drive/p/itmdhdhgrrdccgn5?pid=IHDDHDK6XXD8RS8Q&ref=18d6edfb-aace-4740-aba0-f09fed7f9576 for ~ $100 is the cheapest in my region. I have 4 GB RAM and 0.3 ~ 0.5 GB remains unused most of the time. Usual RAM usage is 3.4/3.8 GB in in task manager.
Will SSD as my primary system drive will increase the performance, boot time, software start-up time etc.? I do not do large file transfers often.
My CPU is: Intel Core i3 540 @ 3.07GHz Clarkdale 32nm Technology
Motherboard: Intel Corporation Model DH55PJ
Hard disk details are attached below:
Manufacturer Western Digital
Form Factor GB/3.5-inch
Business Unit/Brand Desktop/WD Caviar
Heads 16
Cylinders 60,801
Tracks 15,504,255
Sectors 976,768,065
SATA type SATA-III 6.0Gb/s
Device type Fixed
ATA Standard ATA8-ACS
Serial Number WD-WCAYUK364498
LBA Size 48-bit LBA
Power On Count 837 times
Power On Time 345.5 days
Features S.M.A.R.T., AAM, NCQ
Transfer Mode SATA III
Interface SATA
Capacity 465 GB
Real size 500,107,862,016 bytes
RAID Type None
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