Upgrading my desktop C: HDD to an SSD

[chrisinhouston]

A couple of months ago I got a new laptop using the money from the insurance settlement from the valet car parking damage to my Lane Rover roofrack. Seemed like a good use for the money as I could straighen the bent parts.

So I got this super Lenovo Y-70 gaming laptop but not for gaming but travel and doing photo and video editing away from home. It has a 512GB SSD and it boots Windows 8.1 in around 8 seconds. It also speeds up retouching and editing.

Now I am thinking of upgrading my desktop machine. My C: drive is a 1TB standard type HD and I was using around 360GB so far. So I moved most of my Windows Library files (music, misc images and data files) and my Documents files over to the D:drive which took it down to 275GB. My photo collection from all my travels and other work and family pictures is all on a 5TB and then also backed up to a RAID duel HD so they were not on the C: drive.

I did some research and found the latest Crucial 512GB SSD for $189 which is reasonable as the SSDs were so expensive at first. I've been reading up on how to clone the current drive to the SSD and also some of the settings that you need to change like not Defraging the SSD and some other things to help it run fast and last a long time.

Only other thing I plan to do is add 2 more 8GB sticks of RAM which will bring it to 32 GB.

[Gravdigr]

It's a couple days old, but, I just read this:

Solid-state drives lose data if left without power for just a few days

To me, that looks like a regression, not progression.

Based on this alone, I wouldn't want one. Just one more reason to back up your data, I guess.

[Undertoad]

That means if a solid-state drive is stored in a warm room, say 77°F (25°C), its data can last for about two years. But, if that goes up by a mere few degrees to 86°F (30°C), that data's retention period will be cut in half.

Number of hard drives with data I care about, that I keep in hot rooms, and do not power up for years: 0

Percentage of physical hard drives I would expect to fail to spin up at all if used for 6 months and then left unpowered in a hot room for two years: 50%

[chrisinhouston]

I had read a bit about that in some previous news stories but in my case, the computer is almost always on unless I go out of town and actually power it down. That being said even when your computer is turned off but plugged in there is a small amount of power within the system.

It's the same for the T800 unit in The Terminator 2. He gets crushed and ends up with a big metal shaft stabbed through his torso. He shuts down but then gets a small amount of residual power from the machines in the steel mill and is able to reroute his energy supply and wake back up and finish off the other Terminator T1000!

You see? No long term data loss occurred!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCL55ULqo6A

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

It's a couple days old, but, I just read this:

Solid-state drives lose data if left without power for just a few days

To me, that looks like a regression, not progression.

Based on this alone, I wouldn't want one. Just one more reason to back up your data, I guess.

I got 99 reasons to backup data, but SSDs ain't one of them.

[Lamplighter]

Are you bragging or complaining ?

[xoxoxoBruce]

I'm not surprised you haven't a clue.