What is a "Solid State Hard Drive Upgrade"?

simon22

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Totally have no clue what it means, can anyone give me a hand and explain? I never heard of it, hence since I don't get into PC components as such :p

Cheers.
 
Sorry for double posting, but form what I've read it seems that this SSD replaces your original HDD, so for example, in a bundle there is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache, if I choose to replace it with a OCZ Vertex 2E Bigfoot 120GB, that means the SDD will be much quicker, but have less space?
 
simon22 said:
Sorry for double posting, but form what I've read it seems that this SSD replaces your original HDD, so for example, in a bundle there is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache, if I choose to replace it with a OCZ Vertex 2E Bigfoot 120GB, that means the SDD will be much quicker, but have less space?
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Pretty much yes.

You will tend to use a SSD as a boot drive, with Windows, Applications, and perhaps a few games on it. You will still use the regular HDDs for storage.

An SSD for the OS and applications makes everything feel a lot snappier.
 
So if one was to buy a new SSD and use it as above how do you get all ya stuff (games,files,photos etc) from old HDD to new SSD... would it mean total reinstall of win7 games and drivers?!
 
you would have to back up what you wanted to keep, i did it the other day and got a 64gb c300, filled it instantly with w7 and a few games. my question is can i split my steam folder, i.e have my main games on the ssd and a second folder on the hdd with other games, less played but i can still access?

or would i have to download them all and keep the files on the hdd's until i want to play them?
 
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