PC Upgrade advice needed. Ram and SSD

[WantoN]

Which software do you use to manage it?

There's load of stuff I don't back up online, mainly entertainment stuff and non-work related stuff. Don't really want to lose it but won't lose too much sleep if I do. Then there's loads of old photos going back 15+ years which are spread and duplicated several times on different PCs and external hard drives. Don't want to lose those at all. I really need to get everything together, delete all the crap and organise the rest and get a proper backup solution which I can use and keep going forward.

I use Ease US ToDo Backup, it’s excellent, with a simple interface on the free version. I use Workstation, but you don’t need it to do any of the functions you usually need.

I have Amazon Prime and take advtange of the unlimited photos backup perk, but all photos are also backed up via ToDo. I tried Macrium, Veeam Endpoint and others, but ToDo is by far my favourite.

Just waiting for my RAM and SSD to arrive. Been having a root around and I've found an old Radeon 5670 GFX card. Is it worth fitting this while I'm at it? THe current motherboard has onboard gfx

I would imagine it will be significantly better than onboard.

 

[Skirrow]

Thanks again for eveyones help. SSD and ram now fitted, reinstalled windows and it is FLYING.

Going to look at setting up some kind of back up solution and/or NAS with bits I have knocking around so will check out EaseUS Todo.

Thanks again everyone. Less than £150 spent and the difference is more than when I've spent £500 on new PCs in the past. Can't believe I've not got an SSD sooner. Start up time of windows is insane!

 

[WantoN]

Thanks again for eveyones help. SSD and ram now fitted, reinstalled windows and it is FLYING.

Going to look at setting up some kind of back up solution and/or NAS with bits I have knocking around so will check out EaseUS Todo.

Thanks again everyone. Less than £150 spent and the difference is more than when I've spent £500 on new PCs in the past. Can't believe I've not got an SSD sooner. Start up time of windows is insane!

Yep, SSDs are the single best upgrade in terms of performance ‘feel’ imo. Really glad you’re pleased with it.

As for backup, the TS-128a I mentioned is very good, and only about £120 new. Then all you’d need to find is a suitably sized hardrive, and given the amount of data you’re talking about that’ll be cheap as chips too.

Your other option is just use an external hard drive, unplugging once backup is complete. I prefer differential backups over incremental or full, but it’s not the best if you’re constantly adding Giga of new data, incremental is probably best then.