recommended SSD for replacement of 10 year old Optical Drive

Orafus

Orafus

Orafus

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Hi

I'm happy building PCs but haven't done this particular swap before so just wanted to check with someone to see if I need to be particular about which type of SSD drive to get if I'm using it as a clone for a Windows drive on a pretty old PC.

The Gigabyte Mobo has SATA so connection shouldn't be a problem and I have cloning software - any hiccups or pitfalls I should be aware of?
And do you have a particular recommendation for which SSD to get? (from OC of course :-D :-D)
It doesn't have to be super-fast as that PC is now what my kids use for school-work and play.

thanks :-D

Chris.
 
1Tb would be more than ample to cover what we need (500Gb would probably do too but if the price point isn't much different then I'd go bigger). Both the girls are using the PC for all of their music and work so the extra space would be handy. It's also running Office 365 which is quite chunky (and obviously I'd prefer to keep that on the SSD).
 
Forgive me for bumping this but customer services never got back to me and it'd be great to get some info on this.
If anyone out has further advice or a solution I'd appreciate it.

Some system info: Mobo: Gigabyte P35C-DS3R, 4Gb RAM, Current HD 100Gb

If anyone could get back to me with recommendations for any cabling/expansion cards I'd need along with a drive it'd be greatly appreciated.

thanks

Chris.
 
So for a 1TB SSD, this is the cheapest OCUK have in stock which will be fine for your system, also a cheap SATA cable if you don't have a spare and wanting to clone your old drive.

My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £111.10 (includes shipping: £8.70)​
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Looking at your motherboard, you have 8 SATA ports, 6 of which are orange which are the ones you want to use, as they are connected directly to the Intel chipset. It's a simple case of plugging the SATA cable into the drive and the board and connecting the power cable to the drive.

You said about cloning your old drive, so to do that you can use some software called Macrium Reflect Free. Install this onto your computer once the new drive is installed and follow any of the many guides online should you need to. Once cloned you can remove or just unplug your old drive, you may need to set your SSD as a boot option in the BIOS if it doesn't boot into Windows, but otherwise that should be about it.
 
Drive installed and cloned - 10 year old PC now running like 1 year old PC - thanks for the advice and help (especially NIW) :):D:cool:
 
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