Ive been reading into it, and have decided to replace my current 500G Hard drive with a 256G or higher solid state drive. My understanding, is that as long as I buy a 2.5" drive, and clone my current one, it should be a simple swap.

Anyone else have any experience with this or know of a better deal on a ssd?

Newegg SSD for $400

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Posted by SG_Geaux

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Posted on 2/9/12 at 4:19 pm to ChroniX

My understanding, is that as long as I buy a 2.5" drive, and clone my current one, it should be a simple swap.

You better have less than 256 GB of data on that 500 GB drive.

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Posted by brew400

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Posted on 2/9/12 at 5:07 pm to ChroniX

i made the swap in mine a year ago, went from 2 250g hdd to 2 250g ssd.... i moved all files i wanted to my external, loaded a fresh copy of windows on the new drives and migrated over what i wanted from the old stuff..... they are in a raid configuration... best move of my life, my boot time is literally around 20 sec and windows is up

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Posted by baytiger

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Posted on 2/10/12 at 2:56 am to ChroniX

does your laptop have multiple 2.5" bays?

If it does, I'd recommend buying a smaller SSD to save some money and just do a clean windows install.

Either way, I'd definitely recommend a clean install and then copy your important files over from the old hard drive.

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