Bigger is better!

misi misi

misi

Growing Little Guru
So are we seeing the end of the hard drive? I'll answer that when Samsung names its price. 3TB hard drives are around $120 or so. No SSD can come close, although there are 1TB SSDs on NewEgg.com for $500. That's progress. I bought a 500GB SSD for $600 last year, but these drives don't have the advanced 3D memory and PCIe interface of the Samsung card. If it's under $1,000, then you will see hobbyists lining up to buy this thing and the price will come down even further, bringing it to wider acceptance.
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So in my future new PC seems I'll have SSD!!!
3-5 years?
 
foxidrive foxidrive

foxidrive

Retired Admin
misi said:
So in my future new PC seems I'll have SSD!!!
3-5 years?
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In 5 years there may be some even newer technology and SSDs will be old hat. :satisfied

I do recommend getting an SSD for a PC though - even just putting the OS on the SSD and keep a HDD for the data. Windows boots in 15 seconds usually.
 
aye-aye-Chris aye-aye-Chris

aye-aye-Chris

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misi said:
I don't have money for a new Windows 8.1...:tearful
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Download Windows 10. It's free and you can use it until (just past) the official release by which time windows 8 will be left behind in the stack of old physical disk drives, their cables and the high capacity power supplies that cater to them.

Thanks Foxi :happy
 
misi misi

misi

Growing Little Guru
foxidrive said:
Why would you need a new Windows 8.1 to clone the OS onto a new drive?
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I can install Windows, I did it many-many times in the good old Windows ME time, but have no idea how to clone it to a new drive.
Maybe I could do it, maybe not.
It's on a partition of my harddisk, not sure that it would be happy to be installed on a new drive.
 
foxidrive foxidrive

foxidrive

Retired Admin
misi said:
It's on a partition of my harddisk, not sure that it would be happy to be installed on a new drive.
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You need to do two things:

A) Create an image of the OS partition to a USB HDD.
B) Use a tool to create the image, that can restore a system image to a smaller hard drive (SSD in this case).

Windows will work fine on a new drive - assuming the entire OS and Programs are all on the same drive, for the easiest changeover.

Your old HDD will remain exactly how it is, and can be restored to normal use if anything doesn't go to plan - and you do have a backup of your HDD too of course, right?
 
misi misi

misi

Growing Little Guru
foxidrive said:
Your old HDD will remain exactly how it is, and can be restored to normal use if anything doesn't go to plan - and you do have a backup of your HDD too of course, right?
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Yes, I bought a hard drive for that purpose.
It's possible now to make an image with Windows, so I did.
(Windows refused to do it to my older drive.)
 
foxidrive foxidrive

foxidrive

Retired Admin
The solution for Windows 7 backup is to:

* back up the Windows partition
* shrink the Windows partition to the size of the SSD or smaller
* back up the smaller Windows partition

Finally restore the small backup to the SSD, and boot off the SDD and it should be fine.
Expanding the partition to the size of the SSD is easy.

I think that some software can restore to a smaller drive - but that might need a payware solution.
 
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