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Thinking of buying SSD - (to replace 500GB HD) - any advise?
Hi
My hard disk has just blown and I need to replace it.
(Symptoms: BSOD, followed by "There is a fault on your hard drive" / "Cant find operating system" etc)
Background:
My old hard disk is a 500GB Barracuda (ES.2 SATA 3.0-Gb/s, Cache:32MB, running at 720RPM, Model: ST3500320NS) and I would like something at least as fast. I will also need at least c.500GB of disk space.
Two years ago when I bought my disk I was advised that SSD are slightly unreliable particularly if you read/write to the same part of the drive too much. However considering many new laptops seem to have JUST an SSD rather than a hard disk, we have to assume that these reliability problems have been solved.
Please can you advise on:
A) Is SSD is now 'reliable'?
B) Should I buy both a HD as well as a SSD?
C) And if so, what is the best way to configure the two drives? (e.g. Data on HD, but Win7 (x64) Pro on SSD??)
Many thanks
J
P.S. Is there any easy way to transfer the entire existing Win7 installation onto the new drive(s). e.g. by using Restore? Or would I definitely be better installing Win7 from scratch??