SSD - Cost effective upgrade

[NanLaew]

On 12/14/2018 at 7:37 AM, KneeDeep said:

... These days everyone can afford fit an SSD as their Boot drive.

That's what I did with my office PC upgrade about 8 months ago. I had already done a clean re-install of W7 on the original, dual partition, 500 Gb HD to fix speed issues and maxed out the RAM but still wasn't impressed. I bought a Netac 240Gb SSD for 1900 baht from lazada, cloned the existing o/s and programs from the C partition on the original HD to the SSD and once all the updates were caught up on and all tested, deleted the old C partition and gained around 200 Gb on the D partition (now a single partition on the HD). Just enough room for it to slip inside the miniATX case HD rails once clipped into the 2.5 HD adapter cradle. Much faster and possibly now a candidate for a W10 upgrade.

 

The kids gaming PC is next and I will probably go the same route. I note that 240 Gb SSD's are even cheaper on lazada with a Kingston 240 Gb at 1190 baht. Same style of miniATX case and already maxed out the RAM to maximum supported by the mobo so should be a dawdle and make the games run a bit faster once I replace the vga card that went on the fritz.

[NanLaew]

On 12/20/2018 at 12:55 AM, lopburi3 said:

If you do not it may start read/write actions to SSD to extent that computer will hang until finished (much like this forum). 

If you unselect indexing on a previously indexed SSD (cloned, indexed data from previous HD), it will also 'hang' forever as it de-indexes all the files. There's a lot on the 'net about what needs to be done and what can be ignored to optimize an SSD and W7, W8 and W10 apparently have features built in that ignores software instructions and hardware settings that are irrelevant to SSD operation.

 

"You don’t need to worry about wear, and you don’t need to go out of your way to “optimize” them. Windows 7, 8, and 10 automatically do the work for you. ...There are a lot of guides out there about optimizing your SSD, but we don’t recommend following most of them. Some of the advice is outdated, and some of it was never necessary."