Bought a Samsung 500 GB solid state drive to replace the mechanical 2TB drive I had as the primary (boot) drive on my FS box. Installation was easy:
1. Connect the new SSD via USB.
2. Run the clone software (provided) to clone the existing C: drive.
3. Turn off computer, remove old c: drive, replace with SSD unit.
4. Turn on computer. Done.
The big mechanical 2TB drive is now installed as a data drive.
The computer boots much faster than it used to, but I think I was expecting a more dramatic improvement of boot speed. Our IT guy at work is replacing the drives in the graphic artists machines with SSD units, and he seemed very much impressed with the boot-up speed, thus “hyping” my expectations!
FS boots faster too, but again, I didn't have quite as many exclamation points floating above my head as our IT guy lead me to expect.
Overall very happy. I've always liked having a small system drive with a separate data drive anyway, but I was trying to save money when I bought this FS box, so went with a single 2TB monster as the single drive.
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