I bought the Crucial M500 480GB SSD for my desktop PC which is getting a little old these days with an i5 processor but the performance improvement is significant.
The setup was simple attached SSD to spare SATA3 slot and cloned my HDD. My Windows Experience Index (not hugely reliable I know) went up from 5.9 to 7.2. After a few extra tweaks it went to 7.9, which I think is the highest score you can get, so pretty satisfied
Thats all i done with my first SSD, cloned my Windows over, its a big improvement going from a HDD to an SSD, boot up time now is only around 20/25 secs.
Thats all i done with my first SSD, cloned my Windows over, its a big improvement going from a HDD to an SSD, boot up time now is only around 20/25 secs.
Boot up time for my system is about 13 seconds. If you've got Windows 7, that would explain the boot up time for your system.
Cheers for the info, but isn't there also something I have to do if I am migrating an OEM OS?
If you're wanting to transfer the OS on your HDD to an SSD, you'll need a USB migration cable, or, you could buy an SSD upgrade kit. This has the SSD, a bracket to put the SSD in, migration software, and the USB migration cable.
I'm still not sure why that didn't work for me, even tho' I changed the setting to AHCI from the bios before installing the new EVO
The EVO worked fine having installed it and fresh install of Win 7 in sata mode.
I had to change to AHCI mode via a registry hack after everything had been installed.
It's academic now but I'm still curious as to why?
I've read on Amazon where people who've got AMD processors have had trouble when migrating their OS. I don't know if this is true though. I'm assuming you have an AMD processor anyway.
I've read on Amazon where people who've got AMD processors have had trouble when migrating their OS. I don't know if this is true though. I'm assuming you have an AMD processor anyway.
Ah, I do indeed on this PC although I didn't migrate the OS to the new SSD.
If you're wanting to transfer the OS on your HDD to an SSD, you'll need a USB migration cable, or, you could buy an SSD upgrade kit. This has the SSD, a bracket to put the SSD in, migration software, and the USB migration cable.
An easy option is any cheap USB caddy and macrium reflect(free) as I discussed on first page of this thread.
If you're wanting to transfer the OS on your HDD to an SSD, you'll need a USB migration cable, or, you could buy an SSD upgrade kit. This has the SSD, a bracket to put the SSD in, migration software, and the USB migration cable.
Yes cheers I have all that from the last time I changed the HDD on my old laptop.
But that one had a non OEM version of Win7 on it.
My new laptop has an OEM version of Win 8, which I gather has bios protection on it.
Yes cheers I have all that from the last time I changed the HDD on my old laptop.
But that one had a non OEM version of Win7 on it.
My new laptop has an OEM version of Win 8, which I gather has bios protection on it.
I don't see why an OEM OS can't be transferred to an SSD that'll be replacing a drive in that OEM system. Try entering the make and model of your laptop into Google and then adding how to enter BIOS. That's what I did when wanting to find out how to enter the BIOS on mine. I suppose you could try hitting an F key (working your way up) each time the laptop boots up to see which one lets you enter the BIOS.
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Ebuyer, £329, was £343 yesterday, and £353 last week, so was holding off for it to come again, as knew it would again eventually
The final thoughts about that SSD are very positive on Tom's Hardware site. Saying this, it's about the 512GB one.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/crucial-m550-ssd-review,review-32910-12.html
Yeah its highly rated the 550, good drives the Crucials.
Already got the 960gb M5, but sick of having to transfer stuff over to externals all the time, when it gets too full
Do you keep everything you download? Unless you're downloading full Blu-Ray discs.
Not everything, its my Steam games that are taking up all my space.
They're fast, aren't they? Unless this is the second SSD you've had.
Yeah they are fast, and its my second one in there.
The setup was simple attached SSD to spare SATA3 slot and cloned my HDD. My Windows Experience Index (not hugely reliable I know) went up from 5.9 to 7.2. After a few extra tweaks it went to 7.9, which I think is the highest score you can get, so pretty satisfied
Boot up time for my system is about 13 seconds. If you've got Windows 7, that would explain the boot up time for your system.
Yeah im on Windows 7.
Also if your system is Windows 8, do you need to change any settings in the bios?
Just make sure you have AHCI enabled before you install the OS on the SSD.
I'm still not sure why that didn't work for me, even tho' I changed the setting to AHCI from the bios before installing the new EVO
The EVO worked fine having installed it and fresh install of Win 7 in sata mode.
I had to change to AHCI mode via a registry hack after everything had been installed.
It's academic now but I'm still curious as to why?
Cheers for the info, but isn't there also something I have to do if I am migrating an OEM OS?
If you're wanting to transfer the OS on your HDD to an SSD, you'll need a USB migration cable, or, you could buy an SSD upgrade kit. This has the SSD, a bracket to put the SSD in, migration software, and the USB migration cable.
I've read on Amazon where people who've got AMD processors have had trouble when migrating their OS. I don't know if this is true though. I'm assuming you have an AMD processor anyway.
But that one had a non OEM version of Win7 on it.
My new laptop has an OEM version of Win 8, which I gather has bios protection on it.
Yeah, that could be done as well.
I don't see why an OEM OS can't be transferred to an SSD that'll be replacing a drive in that OEM system. Try entering the make and model of your laptop into Google and then adding how to enter BIOS. That's what I did when wanting to find out how to enter the BIOS on mine. I suppose you could try hitting an F key (working your way up) each time the laptop boots up to see which one lets you enter the BIOS.