Upgrading to SDD

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sandcracker21

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I am thinking about upgrading to an SDD from my 1TB 7200k HDD.

I am using about 600 GB of the 1TB drive, but if I get a SSD, I would start over with a fresh install of Windows 7, then put my games and such onto the SSD. Music/documents/etc. will go stay on the HDD.

How hard would it be to do this? Sorry for the inexperience..
 
It's just as easy as installing the drive and reinstalling Windows. I'd personally leave the games on the HDD instead of installing them on the SSD (unless they have ridiculous load times).
 
As voyager said, it's very easy. What you install on the SSD will differ based on the size SSD you get. For moving data to your current 1TB hard drive, after you reinstall Windows right click on your documents, videos, pictures, and other folders you want to be stored on your 1TB drive, and change the location to that drive.
 
Just make sure when you installing Windows on the SSD that the SSD is the only drive connected to the board (or in your system for that matter).

Also make sure the SATA mode is set to AHCI in the BIOS before you begin installing Windows - but on most modern boards AHCI is already the default SATA mode (or at least it has been on most boards I've seen for the past 3 years now).
 
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As mentioned above if you're using a solid state drive I'd leave most stuff on the secondary larger non ssd outside the o.s (and possibly the pagefile as I'm not too versed on how virtual memory operates)

With that in mind I'd reccomend buying a smaller ssd as a system drive (though if you have cash to burn then buying a larger ssd for storage outside of the system one wouldn't be a terrible idea.
 
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