Need Advice on installing SSD

abletudu · Feb 21, 2016

I am thinking of installing a SSD for my main hard drive, but I read somewhere that the main advantage of using one is for the speed of the operating system and boot up. My question is this, My current system has 2 x 1TB HDD and if I added the SSD, is there any way of installing the OS on it without doing a clean install and losing everything I have on my main HDD.

Right now my main drive has 341 GB free using 589 GB and the secondary has 672 GB free using 258 GB. If there is a way of doing this, I would appreciate a step by step guide on how to do it. Thank you.

USAFRet · Feb 21, 2016

1. Where is the current OS?
2. How much total used space is on that drive?
2a. How much of that is Doc/Music/funny cat videos?
3. How large is the new SSD?
4. Does the system currently run to your satisfaction?

You potentially have two option: Clone or clean install

Clean install is highly recommended. But you will have to reinstall all your applications
Clone might be OK, but this involves space considerations.

geofelt · Feb 21, 2016

If you are using 589gb on the windows drive, you can buy a 1tb ssd Samsung evo and use their ssd migration utility to clone windows and the used data to the ssd.
You can then repurpose that hard drive for other use.
If your windows hard drive has user folders of sufficient size, you can exclude those from the migration and possibly make do with a 500gb ssd.

abletudu · Feb 21, 2016

USAFRet :

Answer:
1. Where is the current OS? - Main drive
2. How much total used space is on that drive? - 589 GB
2a. How much of that is Doc/Music/funny cat videos? - Right now about 545.8 GB of miscellaneous files other than OS files
3. How large is the new SSD? - Unsure at this time since I want to get the best Bang for my buck in the $100 - $150 range
4. Does the system currently run to your satisfaction? - Sometimes, boot takes what seems like forever, a lot of times my games and graphics programs like sketchup, paint seem to get sluggish at times. Definitely could stand improvement. I keep my rig clean of viruses, malware, junk files and I defrag at least once per week.

Any good recommendations?

geofelt · Feb 21, 2016

Samsung 240gb is $88
500gb is $150.
You could use either, but since 500gb fits your budget, I would opt for that.
Larger ssd devices are a tad faster, and last longer.

Use the Samsung ssd migration utility and exclude some of your large data folders from the migration.
The rest will be cloned to the ssd.
The unmoved data folders will still be accessible on the original hard drive. You can delete those folders that were cloned to the new ssd.

You will be delighted with the difference a ssd makes in your everyday operations.
game level loads will be faster, game checkpoints will be faster, textures loaded quicker.

Yes, booting will be faster, but I suggest you boot less often.
Set up so you sleep to ram which will be a very low power state. The sleep/eake times will be around 4 seconds.

USAFRet · Feb 21, 2016

Samsung 850 EVO, either 250 or 500GB.
As said above, the 500 will take almost your whole current install, minus the stuff that doesn't need to be there. Video/doc/etc.

The latest incarnation of the Samsung Data Migration tool allows you to exclude files and folders for doc/pics/video. Getting the migration space down to a usable size.

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