I just ordered a Samsung EVO 840 SSD for my laptop, 120 GB. I don't suppose that I need to do anything to "set up" for this swap, right, like defrag the drive before I copy everything over? In fact, the catalyst for doing this is because I heard lots of weird hard drive clicking last night, and the computer is 10 years old, so it's probably due for a change. I'd like to stress the current drive as little as possible, besides, obviously, ghosting it over to the new drive. I understand that Samsung's SSDs come with a handy ghosting application, yes?
I'm looking forward to the new speed. It's an older Celeron M 1.7 GHz with 2 GB of RAM and Windows 7. Much of the time I'm waiting on it, that HDD light is flashing and I can hear it churning. It's probably an older 5,400 rpm drive. Other than the drive possibly aging, this has been a great laptop. It's a Compaq Presario C306 with a nice glossy 15.6" display and a full-size keyboard, DVD burner, built-in wi-fi, etc. It was pretty decent for 10 years ago, and still works great today.
I've been using it more lately...I've got SQL Server 2008 R2 on it and Visual Studio Express 2013 that I use at work for doing some off-line development so I don't screw up a production server!
I'm looking forward to the new speed. It's an older Celeron M 1.7 GHz with 2 GB of RAM and Windows 7. Much of the time I'm waiting on it, that HDD light is flashing and I can hear it churning. It's probably an older 5,400 rpm drive. Other than the drive possibly aging, this has been a great laptop. It's a Compaq Presario C306 with a nice glossy 15.6" display and a full-size keyboard, DVD burner, built-in wi-fi, etc. It was pretty decent for 10 years ago, and still works great today.
I've been using it more lately...I've got SQL Server 2008 R2 on it and Visual Studio Express 2013 that I use at work for doing some off-line development so I don't screw up a production server!