I've got an SSD at work. It's great.
I finally bit the bullet and ordered one for my home PC. The PC itself is getting pretty long in the tooth (circa 2006), but I just don't do much on it that would justify me getting a whole new system.
I upped the RAM in it to 6GB a year or two ago. That helped.
The SSD should give me that next boost to stave off the upgrade demons for another couple years.
The SSD comes with a kit that, in theory, allows me to migrate the current drive to that one nice and easy. However, given that I did a funky ass install of Win7 (see previous posts) I'm not sure how it will work. Further, I don't think I want to use the same setup (splitting OS and User onto different drives with the OS on a 75GB Raptor).
So, I will reinstall Win7 and just do a normal install where I leave Users on the same drive as OS. That way I'll get the benefit of OS, Apps and User all on the fast 128GB SSD. It will be a pain in the ass. I've got to dig up the CDs and reinstall everything. Ugh, ugh, ugh.
I'll keep you posted.
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ReplyDeleteWhich SSD did you pick? Did you go with the 6GB SATA standard so you can take it to your next build, or accept that your next build will be all new and your old machine will become the boy's machine with a yet another fresh install of the OS?