New to SSD's, questions

[Pezcore27]

So I just landed an amazing deal newegg is running on the Crucial M4 64gb SSD for $65.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148441

I had been considering updating to a SSD as a boot drive and using my 500gb drive for general storage, but I have never set drives this way, I have only ever used a single drive, but for the price I couldn't pass it up.

What is the best way to set up my system to use the SSd as a primary boot drive and have all the other general stuff to store on the HDD?

Should I update the firmware on the drive before installing anything and if so how do I go about doing that, or do I just update it after the install?

Thanks!

 

[rolli59]

If there is new firmware update. Setting it up and more is answered here http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/270102-14-useful-articles-part

 

[WyomingKnott]

Please read the stickies at the top of the forum. They point to many articles on the care and feeding of SSDs, especially the now-standard setup of an SSD as boot / software drive and one or more HDDs as data drives. The great original article is here: http://www.computing.net/howtos/show/solid-state-drive-ssd-tweaks-for-windows-7/552.html

Have fun.

 

[Pezcore27]

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