Necromancing apologies aside...
Just ordered a Crucial M500 240GB SSD off
Wootware, at R2088.00 all in.
Had a friend bring over an
OWC Data-doubler from the UK - which included the toolkit.
Also bought a OWC Optical enclosure off
Takealot in the week, with a nice little R50 discount thrown in.
Bought CCC with the education discount today, and just realised that my
Seagate Backup Plus that I bought I few months back, comes with a very handy removable SATA interface adapter, which appears as if it will simply slot straight into the Crucial M500!
So think I'm pretty much done and dusted.
1.) Plug in SATA adapter into new SSD;
2.) CCC all off my 500GB onto the 240GB SSD [I'm hoping this will work - but I might be cutting things fine, since I'm already using about 260GB on the HDD. Hopefully CCC will allow me to select all except my 80GB music library. If so - then I'm golden. I will then move the Music library off the HDD, before formatting it, once all is set-up, and then move it back again onto the clean HDD);
3.) Install SSD;
4.) Cross-fingers.
5.) Boot-up to new SSD [Check that all is working - try and 'find' that recovery partition, which I will hope CCC has taken over];
6.) Fire up Trim Enabler - reboot and check trim.
7.) Move Music onto Seagate External -- 5 hours later -- format original HDD;
8.) Copy Music back onto newly-formatted HDD -- 5 hours later -- crack open a beer.
To those who have done this already - I would appreciate some thoughts on whether I've missed something?
**Should I rather move the music off the HDD onto the external Seagate FIRST (possibly along with the other space hogs (iMovies etc.) AND THEN CCC the (significantly smaller, data-wise HDD) over onto the new SSD?
That sounds like a safer plan?
Any suggestions will be welcomed!
