Wow, why didnt I do that earlier?!

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I work in IT, for a large manufacturer, so I should know better but...

My 6 month old laptop wasnt available with SSD when I ordered it. Just upgraded. Wow, difference is night and day. So nice not to have a HDD buzzing away, and boot speeds have halved.

If anyone is thinking of doing the same, the Samsung cam with some good SW and it was a piece of cake - I haven't done tech stuff for years, but it was straightforward; just had to re-activate windows 8, which was easy on a freephone automated system.

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skelters said:

I've been running on SSD drives for almost 18 months on 3 different laptops. After the initial speed increase you get used to it although you'll never got back to magnetic drives!

Make sure you back things up regularly as SSD do not give any warning on failure.

I'd check the boot speeds as it should be less than 20 seconds to get into Windows 7 and even faster for Windows 8 and Linux distros obviously depending on the processor and memory you have. I'm assuming it's a decent processor!

Enjoy!

Thanks, Yes, it roobooted earlier whilst I was looking at my other (work) laptop and I thought it hadnt! Took no time at all. It is a Haswell i7.

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I bought this. Not cheap, but wanted to keep partitions the same size and it gets good reviews..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00E3W16OU/ref=...

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I use sleep function, yes, but just try one, silent, fast at loading everything, fast at rebooting, everything just ticks along a lot faster.

In addition, the drain on the battery is less, so you get better life out of a charge.

See my link further up for 1Tb prices.

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Yes you can put them in a caddy - I bought a "kit" to allow me to use it in this way when imaging it, which I have now put the redundant HDD into.