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RE: What's the Best Way To Move To A New HDD
September 18, 2018 at 4:19 am
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As above. Also, the biggest decider (for me) which way I would go is whether I can keep my OS license or not.
If not, then sure put in an SSD and install as fresh Win10/64. After that, then attach the old harddisk, to get any personal data off.
If you are just swapping drives over and not much else, there are many progs which can image drives. Many are free or trial.
Also, don't defrag an SSD. In fact turn off the service completely in "services". (right click My computer > manage>services)
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RE: What's the Best Way To Move To A New HDD
September 18, 2018 at 3:58 pm
Clean installation is a good start.
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RE: What's the Best Way To Move To A New HDD
September 19, 2018 at 11:16 pm
Yes. SSDs have dropped in price significantly in the past year. It's a good time to buy.
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RE: What's the Best Way To Move To A New HDD
September 19, 2018 at 11:54 pm
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For the pc gamers/overclockers, even sata SSD's are becoming obsolete, hence the price drop.
NVME (non volatile memory) memory sticks communicate directly with the cpu bus and are roughly 4-5 times faster than the 6Gig/s sata bottleneck...
(Never thought in a million years I'd call the 6Gig/s sata standard a bottleneck!) Murphy's law is relentless...
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RE: What's the Best Way To Move To A New HDD
September 20, 2018 at 8:17 am
I'm safe from stratospheric computing, I'll just potter along with my year old dinosaur.
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RE: What's the Best Way To Move To A New HDD
September 20, 2018 at 6:27 pm
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One more thing:
About NVMe: it's basically an onboard SSD. A mATX motherboard with an M.2 socket (the standard required for NVMe) and really good stats can be bought for about $100. An entire new comp can be put together for about $500, GFX card not included and assuming you buy fresh RAM and CPU for it (you may not have to).
I have a Samsung 960 EVO M.2 2280, which reads at 3,200M (legit 10x faster than almost anything else) and the 250GB version cost about $100. It installed Windows from my thumb drive in about 5 minutes (not exaggerating even), and from power-off to login takes about 10 seconds. Opening big programs? Photoshop? Office? Almost instant! I didn't realize how much of my life I was waiting for stuff to open until I didn't have to wait anymore.
Note also that this drive is rated for something like 1.5 million hours (if I'm reading Korean correctly)-- not like early SSDs which were much more susceptible to wearing out.