Thinking of buying a SSD hardrive

bitfenix

bitfenix

bitfenix

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Hi

Im thinking of buying a SSD hardrive for my computer I hear they have faster booting times and loading programs faster.

Will there be much difference between a SATA3 hardisk?

Thanks
 
It's worth the upgrade now more than ever. People used to have an SSD as the boot drive and a HDD for games. Last year marked the point at which SSDs became cheap enough to have on their own, even for a budget build.
 
Best thing to do! Just use your old mechanical for old storage. Even that after awhile you might feel is to slow and upgrade :D
 
I'd argue that going to an SSD for me was as dramatic an upgrade as going from 4MB to 20MB RAM on my 486 all those years ago!!!
 
It's ok
And not going to get much cheaper for 500gb I doubt
Going for a Samsung 860 evo would be around £25 more
So big price difference
You possibly wouldn't notice the difference
Read/write speeds are pretty much maxed out 550/540 give or take a little
On most of them now
Samsung have a reputation for reliability never used wd ssds
So can't comment on reliability but not exactly a small company and plenty experience in hard drives
I doubt you will have any problems with it
 
Actually looks like 3 ssd spots to me
1 removable caddy/mounting plate on the right hand side behind motherboard
And 2 fixed non removable on the left
Ie just screw through
No moving parts in ssd anyway so even without mounting points you can shove them anywhere horizontal or vertical doesn't matter
As long as got a little room for heat to get away
I have shoved them just about any where when ran out of mounts
 
Mcnumpty2323 said:
Actually looks like 3 ssd spots to me
1 removable caddy/mounting plate on the right hand side behind motherboard
And 2 fixed non removable on the left
Ie just screw through
No moving parts in ssd anyway so even without mounting points you can shove them anywhere horizontal or vertical doesn't matter
As long as got a little room for heat to get away
I have shoved them just about any where when ran out of mounts
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Thanks for the quick reply so can I just stick on top of the HDD and should not do any harm?
 
bitfenix said:
Thanks for the quick reply so can I just stick on top of the HDD and should not do any harm?
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If that's what you want to do
I have done that
Have had them dangling in mid air by the cables
Shoved them in any available nook and cranny~just sat in 3.5 and 5.25 bays as well
Never had an ssd fail on me
Though since mounting spots are available most people would use them
The putting them behind motherboard tray
Just means it takes a bit more effort to do it though looks tidier in the end
 
I have plugged data and power cable into SSD drive and its showing in my computer and disk management . When I started Windows 7 Ultimate CD I got a error saying.

"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style. Windows cannot be installed to this hardisk space. The partition contains more or more dynamic volumes that are not supported."

Can anyone help?

Thanks

SEARCHED THIS - https://www.google.com/search?q=win....69i57j0l7.12027j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
 
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Should show
Delete, format, etc under the drives
Then click on what you want to delete
Then click delete
For each partiton
Or use command prompt
And disk part with clean option
Or go in bios and alter legacy ~UEFI
Assuming no other drives are involved
 
win7install.jpg
 
Ok
That options out then
By the way should only have one drive connected installing windows
So they get separate boot records
If you ever lose 1 drive that way your pc will still boot
Can try
Diskpart
Or in windows use disk management
 
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