Hi guys, I changed out my motherboard , CPU. and memory over the weekend and
did a fresh install of Windows 7 and everything went well but my old Sata 1 HDD is
showing up in benchmarks as the weak link in my mostly new system. At first I ordered a new
2 TB HDD with good specs but after doing some more research I decided to cancel that order
and try installing my first SSD, so Ive ordered the Samsung 830 series 256 GB model. Ive watched a few install
videos but Im curious as to what I might need to do Now to help with adding a standard drive Later
for storage. I think I read that I need to make sure that my Sata controller is set to AHCI or something
but Im not clear on some other things. With only 50 GBs on my reformatted old HDD would I still be better off
doing a fresh install on the SSD ? Or would you just move the entire drive data over to the SSD. Also with a 256 GB
SSD would you still consider Intel SRT an option or just go with the SSD + HDD for storage only option.
I have most of my important stuff already Moved over to a 2 TB external Im running on my Home network
so Im not even sure I need to add more internal storage just yet but I hear these SSDs fill up pretty fast
with windows file Indexing and other stuff. Also will my older Slower HDD still hinder my system if I only you it
as a secondary drive. I want to get the best performance I can from my Upgrade/ hardware.
Im running a Gigabyte Z68 board a I5 2500K CPU and 8gigs of DDR3 1600 RAM. Case, PS, and Optical are left over from my
2008-2009 machine.
Also I do need to set my Clock speeds back to default right ? before I install the SSD.
did a fresh install of Windows 7 and everything went well but my old Sata 1 HDD is
showing up in benchmarks as the weak link in my mostly new system. At first I ordered a new
2 TB HDD with good specs but after doing some more research I decided to cancel that order
and try installing my first SSD, so Ive ordered the Samsung 830 series 256 GB model. Ive watched a few install
videos but Im curious as to what I might need to do Now to help with adding a standard drive Later
for storage. I think I read that I need to make sure that my Sata controller is set to AHCI or something
but Im not clear on some other things. With only 50 GBs on my reformatted old HDD would I still be better off
doing a fresh install on the SSD ? Or would you just move the entire drive data over to the SSD. Also with a 256 GB
SSD would you still consider Intel SRT an option or just go with the SSD + HDD for storage only option.
I have most of my important stuff already Moved over to a 2 TB external Im running on my Home network
so Im not even sure I need to add more internal storage just yet but I hear these SSDs fill up pretty fast
with windows file Indexing and other stuff. Also will my older Slower HDD still hinder my system if I only you it
as a secondary drive. I want to get the best performance I can from my Upgrade/ hardware.
Im running a Gigabyte Z68 board a I5 2500K CPU and 8gigs of DDR3 1600 RAM. Case, PS, and Optical are left over from my
2008-2009 machine.
Also I do need to set my Clock speeds back to default right ? before I install the SSD.