Please give things to note when upgrading to SSD?

I have a LV1 Vanquish with an old hard drive. I have been thinking of upgrading to a 800GB SSD.

I am going to google the nitty gritty details/guide on google but can you guys help me give a general tips/notes I should consider when

1)buying SSDs for 900GB
2)installing SSDs
3)What items do I need to install it
4)What are the stuff I should consider/

AS db188 said you want the samsung 850 evo or pro, pro has longer warranty, both are great upgrade.

I'm assuming this is your main drive/os drive, if so you want to clone/copy the whole drive over, Magician can do this for you, all you do is install the new drive as an internal or external.

1a. for internal look in your case and locate extra sata data cable and a power cable so that you can connect the new ssd, you should have extra cables with the mobo package you got that has all your extras on it. If for some reason you can't find that package then you need to buy both.

1b. for external you just pop in the ssd in your external enclosure and connect the external to the pc and turn it on.

once you have the ssd connected to the pc (internal or external) you now need to clone/copy the old drive to the new drive. as mentioned the software that comes with samsung ssd called magician can help you do this or you can use acronis as a third party software.

2a. for magician follow their guide/steps in the app.

2b. for acronis clone guide you can follow my clone guide here

3. once you have cloned/copy the drive to the new one, you can simply take out the old drive and put the new ssd in its place.

4. boot up to windows with the old drive no longer connected to test and see if your clone went correctly on the new drive/ssd. With only the ssd in the system now, your pc should be able to boot off of the ssd and go into windows just as it did with the old drive, the only difference should be speed of the boot if you have an hdd right now.

Its is very important to understand that he clone/copy process we are talking about has to be done via one of the softwares mentioned or a software that can do cloning do to the fact that this is very different then drag and drop or copying the content of one drive to another from inside of windows.


Now if this is just a storage drive then you can actually go ahead and drag and drop content from one drive to another but not if its an os drive.

Edited by DST4ME - 29 Jul 2016 at 4:44pm