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.