04-12-2012, 02:58 PM
I just added one of these to my system. So far the experience has been great.
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5 year warranty from Intel
Intel provides a no-hassle migration program that will let you transfer the contents of one partition to another, including your Windows installation. So it turned my "F" SSD drive into my "C" Windows drive by cloning the contents of the original C drive, then I just went into the BIOS to tell it to boot from the new drive first.
After doing this, you can wipe your old drive clean or throw it out the window or whatever.
If you want to save some space on your SSD, though, Windows 7 (not sure about previous versions) makes it easy to change the location of "My Documents" (My Music, etc) --
Go into Windows Explorer
Find "My Documents"
Right click on it
Properties
Location tab
Select the new location. Windows will copy everything to the new location and delete the originals.
After doing this, Windows boots in like 15 seconds. That whole time period after startup where it crunched to load program data is gone and everything fires up just about instantly (when I cloned my C drive it cloned all of "Program Files" too so most everything is on my SSD now.)
I just got the 128 GB SSD because I was just going to load games on it but when I saw how easy it was to move Windows to it, I did that and now I'm kind of regretting not springing for a bigger SSD! Still, moving my "Users" folders back to my conventional drive saved me like 20 gigabytes. There's no reason to store documents, downloads, movies, pictures and music on the SSD.
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5 year warranty from Intel
Intel provides a no-hassle migration program that will let you transfer the contents of one partition to another, including your Windows installation. So it turned my "F" SSD drive into my "C" Windows drive by cloning the contents of the original C drive, then I just went into the BIOS to tell it to boot from the new drive first.
After doing this, you can wipe your old drive clean or throw it out the window or whatever.
If you want to save some space on your SSD, though, Windows 7 (not sure about previous versions) makes it easy to change the location of "My Documents" (My Music, etc) --
Go into Windows Explorer
Find "My Documents"
Right click on it
Properties
Location tab
Select the new location. Windows will copy everything to the new location and delete the originals.
After doing this, Windows boots in like 15 seconds. That whole time period after startup where it crunched to load program data is gone and everything fires up just about instantly (when I cloned my C drive it cloned all of "Program Files" too so most everything is on my SSD now.)
I just got the 128 GB SSD because I was just going to load games on it but when I saw how easy it was to move Windows to it, I did that and now I'm kind of regretting not springing for a bigger SSD! Still, moving my "Users" folders back to my conventional drive saved me like 20 gigabytes. There's no reason to store documents, downloads, movies, pictures and music on the SSD.