Is an SSD worth it?

[techead]

Guys, I'm caving with all this SSD talk.

/orders from wootware

haha!!

[IzZzy]

Aww they only getting stock either today or tomorrow. I got excited when I selected overnight Fedex thinking it will be here tomorrow .

The real question, and slightly off topic, is what program is best for cloning my current primary drive and moving it to the SSD?

[Mike Smit]

Aww they only getting stock either today or tomorrow. I got excited when I selected overnight Fedex thinking it will be here tomorrow .

The real question, and slightly off topic, is what program is best for cloning my current primary drive and moving it to the SSD?

I did a simple windows system image (In Windows 7 Backup), then restored it to my SSD. I was concerned with partition aligning, but the restore did it perfectly so no issue.

[Mier]

I did a simple windows system image (In Windows 7 Backup), then restored it to my SSD. I was concerned with partition aligning, but the restore did it perfectly so no issue.

I tried this but it failed due to the existing boot drive (500GB) being larger than the SSD (120GB). I couldn't shrink the partitiion because there was some unmovable files, so I just did a fresh install because I was too lazy (and too impatient ) to search for another solution.

[Mike Smit]

I tried this but it failed due to the existing boot drive (500GB) being larger than the SSD (120GB). I couldn't shrink the partitiion because there was some unmovable files, so I just did a fresh install because I was too lazy (and too impatient ) to search for another solution.

lol - ye - that can be a problem.
When I got my Vertex 2 beginning of last year I had the same problem and just did a fresh install (also lazy ). When the drive failed about 1.5 months back I put back my HDD while waiting for the replacement Vertex 3 and restored a backup (I backup every Sun) to the HDD. I made sure I kept it under 100GB so when the replacement came I could simply backup/restore again.

[Grimspoon]

Installed my OCZ agility 3 last night. Its amazing!! Seriously don't know why I didn't do this sooner.

[IzZzy]

Okay so I'm probably going to do a fresh install just so that I can install programs to my current SATA 6 HDD, and install Windows + Steam + Origin on the SSD.

Maybe, just maybe, mine will come today...

[killadoob]

Installed my OCZ agility 3 last night. Its amazing!! Seriously don't know why I didn't do this sooner.

Noob of note you are padawan

The best cloning software is acronis true image.

[kolaval]

WTF? is it worth it? It's a billion gajillion kapillion times faster than any spinnable hard drive can get. In fact, your motherboard is more likely to be the new bottleneck if you're not careful.

Yep, mine is now, the motherboard can only handle 55MB/s copy from one folder to another
Anycase, I always hibernated my pc due to long boot time, now I don't even notice boot time
Great investment!!

[IzZzy]

So uhh, how do you fit everything on the SSD

[snugglez64]

Also installed my Corsair Force GT last night.. It's blazing fastest MUFASA! Mwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

[Grimspoon]

Noob of note you are padawan

The best cloning software is acronis true image.

/drop kicks Killadoob


I know, I know. . .

[Mike Smit]

Just make sure it aligns the SSD partitions when doing a clone.
Beginning of last year when I get my first SSD I wanted to use Acronis but at the time it did not support re-aligning of the partitions (if I remember correctly).
If the partitions are not correctly aligned you can end up with up to 50% loss of performance.

[Grimspoon]

I didn't even bother with cloning it. . . Installing Windows and all my apps was so damn quick, it was actually fun.

[shearder]

WTF? is it worth it? It's a billion gajillion kapillion times faster than any spinnable hard drive can get. In fact, your motherboard is more likely to be the new bottleneck if you're not careful.

Probably the RAM befoe the MB... people ted to skimp on this pretty important piece of hardware and spend TONS on a new machine and a couple of hundred on a 2GB RAM module!! Then wonder why it doesn't seem faster than what they upgraded from! hahahaha