SSD Migration - Clean install or migrate?

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I would like to use a tool to migrate my data and OS to my new SSD, but is it better to just fresh install my OS and then move my data on? Just curious because I know theres something you need to do with sector alignment and TRIM.

Which would be the better option? I just like the migration because it would save a lot of program installs haha
 
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While A fresh install is the recommended route, using Paragons Migrate OS to SSD* has worked well for many people. Be sure to run a backup before messing with your drives.

*nothing else will migrate your existing OS to an SSD that I know of, and leave everything functional that is. Its not free.
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Your SSD has to be a fair bit bigger than what you want to migrate to it. eg 120gb ssd with Windows ends up with about 30gb left over. format and reserve partition take up a lot. Even then, there are lots of problems reported using migration software.

A clean install leaves you knowing exactly how much room you have left and less chance of errors.
 
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While A fresh install is the recommended route, using Paragons Migrate OS to SSD* has worked well for many people. Be sure to run a backup before messing with your drives.

*nothing else will migrate your existing OS to an SSD that I know of, and leave everything functional that is. Its not free.
 
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Okay thanks for your replies.

I've successfully cloned HDDs to another HDD before and installed them into different machines, it installs drivers for the new hardware ie CPU and reboots, works perfectly fine after 2 - 3 reboots while getting use to the new hardware. Though this is my first SSD so I'm not too knowledgeable with them.

Thanks guys!
 
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Oh and one last question, I understand your supposed to leave a certain amount of free space as well to keep performance up, I was told 10% is this correct? And should I leave it on the same partition or is it okay to partition off that 10% (or whatever the amount is) and just don't assign it a letter so that it's still there but I wont use it?
 
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I was planning on having about 3 games on the same drive as the OS which will be the SSD along with my most used programs, and will have all my other games and programs on the HDD. Since my HDD is 1.5TB I don't think I'll need to worry about the 10% on there for a while :D

Is it also a good idea to move the temporary and appdata directories to the HDD? Just thinking of write endurance because these 2 directories can get pretty active.
 
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I was just going to have the SSD in 2 partitions, one will be C:\ but the second partition will be unformatted and will take up 10% of the SSD so that I don't ever use over 90% of the drive :) and I'll partition my HDD in 2 as well, partition one off the HDD will be D:\ and contain programs, games, doc, music etc... And partition two of the HDD will be E:\ and is the backup partition :)

Sounding okay?
 
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