Is an SSD right for me?

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DustCrow

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I'm going to try to keep this short, I just have some simple questions (: First off, a quick background..

I have a decent custom built desktop PC, but I notice it's getting slow to boot down and slow loading up everything when I turn on my PC, and I do control my startup programs. When I custom built my PC, I upgraded literally everything but the Hard Drive.

It' a 500gb Hard Drive, about 3-4 years old, original had Vista, Upgraded to Windows 7, and just 2 months ago I upgraded it to 8.

Here are my questions (:

1. Would I have a noticeable difference if I upgrade to an SSD?
2. What Size would be fine? Could I get a small SSD, 128GB or so for my main programs and Windows and keep everything else on the 3 yr old drive?
3. How difficult it is to transfer my version of Windows 8 and my files over to a new SSD? (I only use 85gb of my current 500gb drive)



Thanks for the help!
 
In all cases I've experienced, an SSD does wonders for general PC performance.

I have a 128GB SSD, with windows, some applications, and 36.5GB of Steam games, I still have 46.5GB of space free.

Of course I've done things like turning off system restore, reducing the pagefile to minimum, disabling hibernation, and perform regular clean up of Windows junk that gets left behind

You'd be best off formatting the SSD and installing fresh on that. Then you can copy your user profile from your existing installation (or use windows easy transfer) and delete the install off your old drive, and just use it for storage.
 
Install the SSD on a SATA cable in the computer and use AOMEI Backuper to clone the primary disk to the SSD. It should align the SSD correctly. You can use AsSSD to verify alignment.

The newer SSDs are better at garbage collection and TRIM and you really don't have to minimize the page file or turn off system restore. Also, the NAND is better in newer SSDs. However, turn off auto defrag in the hard drive properties on the SSD. Never defrag a SSD.

Yes, SSDs will give you better performance. I would put your main programs that you want speed with on the SSD and the others on the second HDD.

http://www.aomeitech.com/

I cloned my platter to a SSD with no problems.
 
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