SSD - win 7 install

Parkerlewis · 3 Nov 2010 at 21:36

Hi all, I've been advised to install Win 7 onto an HDD first and then clone this image onto my new OCZ SSD, rather than just install Windows straight onto the SSD. Supposedly this is better for the drive as reduces the initial write and rewrites of the Windows installation process.

Is this the case and does it really matter. Not a problem if there is a benefit but I don't want to waste my time if there is no real issue. What do you all think?

Thanks

Parker

Azuse05 · 3 Nov 2010 at 21:40

Install to the ssd, installing to a hdd then transferring to an ssd is a waste of time.If you want to reduced read and writes to an ssd, don't use it :-/

alex24 · 3 Nov 2010 at 21:42

I'd do a clean install. I recently cloned onto my SSD and I'm not getting great performance, I think that may be something to do with it. It is aligned properly though, which is one thing you'll have to check (i.e. the NTFS allocation unit size). As for it being lots of writes, I assume you'll be using the SSD after you've installed it, so what does it matter! New SSDs are a lot better than the initial ones that really needed looking after.

Oh, don't do a full format when you install, just a quick one.

Mailman86 · 3 Nov 2010 at 21:43

Just install straight on to the SSD. If anything you're going to cause more problems installing on to the HDD first and then cloning to the SSD. I'm not sure if it's an issue now, but when I got my SSD, most cloning software wasn't optimised to work with SSDs due to something with alignment and cluster sizes I think it was?