What's the Best Way To Move To A New HDD

[popeyespappy]

As for security, Windows 7 will be supported until 2020.  And anyway, installing a new OS these days takes a matter of minutes.  I'd recommend moving your desktop and documents folders to a drive other than your OS drive, so you can be as merciless with your OS installation as I am-- if ANYTHING bugs me at all, I will almost immediately wipe the drive and re-install windows.

I was thinking about partitioning the SSD for the OS only or OS plus programs. It will get whatever we use for security, Office, pretty much the full Adobe suite, Faststone, Filezilla, and EXIFTool. I'd like to also use the SSD for actually working with the files. We'll be getting stuff in batches so I won't have to work with everything at once. Using the SSD for the programs too should speed things up. Plus this way the regular HDD's, I was planning RAID 5 there, would just be used for storage of the files.

Anyone got any advice on partitioning SSD's?

[bennyboy]

500GB is probably enough to setup a dual boot OS on two partitions, and have a third drive to store either virtual copies of all your software and drivers, or an image of your completely installed system.

In my case, I don't usually bother with any of that. I can download current versions of Windows, Office, and my licensed programs at the cost of a few minutes apiece.

Also, these days the chances of your SSD failing before you simply want to upgrade your system is extremely small. Probably the only way you can kill it is with a nasty power spike. Your big hard drives on the other hand-- I've hand PLENTY of hard drives fail, and lost important data from them.

[ignoramus]

Yeah. I bought an 8TB backup usb3 drive for a hundred and something ... Slow but cheap as chips ($ per MB)

[Angrboda]

There's something of a catch-22. The stuff I care about is on reliable storage (SSD) or redundant storage (RAID or the cloud). I have stuff that I care little about on less reliable storage, but because I don't care about it, I don't really use it, so it just ends up wasting space. I've got two 3 TB external hard drives that I've considered using software mirroring to maintain, but then again, that's redundant storage technology. The cheap as shit hard drive technology ends up being no cheaper than the expensive stuff because it has far less utility than the more expensive stuff. (And really, with the price of hard disks and the ubiquity of integrated raid capable controllers, RAID 1 storage is relatively cheap.)

[bennyboy]

Yeah man, I gotta say-- unless I have tens of TB of government data files to process, I'm probably done with physical hard drives forever at this point.

[popeyespappy]

Well piss...

According to what I just read Adobe uses the shit out of GPU's to process image files so I just ordered a used MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8GB 256-bit GDDR5 graphics card. Not the best graphics card out there but pretty good and literally 1/10 the price of a new top of the line GeForce 2080.

[bennyboy]

Well piss...

According to what I just read Adobe uses the shit out of GPU's to process image files so I just ordered a used MSI Radeon RX 580 Gaming X 8GB 256-bit GDDR5 graphics card. Not the best graphics card out there but pretty good and literally 1/10 the price of a new top of the line GeForce 2080.

So many surprises for me in this thread.  I would think that a modern Intel chip would have plenty of GFX power for 2D image processing.

[popeyespappy]

So many surprises for me in this thread.  I would think that a modern Intel chip would have plenty of GFX power for 2D image processing.

I'm sure it does. Useing the GPU is just speeds things up.