SSD Performance increase

[anonymous-user]

I have a 5 year old Dell desktop which is now not in use because I have upgraded to a new XPS but we need a new household computer and I was wondering if the desktop with an SSD upgrade would be significantly faster after the change?

The other option is buying a new laptop/desktop to fill the void but having move to SSD on my XPS I can't imagine going back to spinning disks.

Also, I am fairly ok with computers but I have never done a windows install from scratch. Is this just going to be a major stshow? I also don't have a copy of windows, although it has a licence. Where do I get one?

Any advice would be great.

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 31st August 13:18

[anonymous-user]

Thanks everyone. I've ordered a 500gb ssd from crucial and have upgraded the machine in its current guise to windows 10 and made a windows 10 USB key. I have the key for windows 10 which I got using magic jelly bean key finder. I will boot from the USB when the ssd is installed. This is all in theory until it's working :-)

[anonymous-user]

SSD now installed and cloned. In the end it was super simple. Did a fresh install of windows 10 on the old HDD, plugged in the ssd and cloned the HDD using the clone programme that the crucial ssd comes with. Cloned it, shut down, unplug hdd, boot. Voila.