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@archer:
Trivandrum is a whole different story.
The dealers here are still flogging Pentium IV systems.
There is even a dealer here who advises customers that they do not need high end parts as those are only required for "video editing".
The only real option for us down here is online.
Just out of interest, what is the best 128-256 GB SSD I can get?
This is a field I am totally out of touch with.
Amazon has a sale on the Samsung, the 120 is under $100. Samsung appears to be the number one ssd now, subject to change. Amazon has a no question 30 day return policy, only place I buy for most items, hard to beat their prices. Make sure that Amazon is the actual vender and not a third party. A third party well have a different return policy.
Unfortunately for us here in India, buying from Amazon or Newegg would add import duties to the cost of the product, almost doubling the price in hand.
Flipkart does have the Samsung 840, though, and it is actually priced less that the eBay link you provided, archer.
Let me think it over for a couple of days.
The bank account is leaning drunkenly against the wall, bleeding from all the beating it has taken over the past couple of days.
Total expenditure so far, just for parts, has been in excess of INR 61K.
Another question:
If I did get the SSD, and my current install survived the trauma of the motherboard/CPU transplant, would I be able to migrate it from my current HDD to the SSD?
If so, how would I go about doing that?
Now you guys have got me infected.
Here I am sitting in my chair, counting busily on my dirty littlle fingers, thinking what I can starve to afford the SSD goodness.
So tell me, how do I migrate my install to the new SSD?
(that's assuming I do buy it mwahahaha)
These are worth reading:
SSD - Install and Transfer the Operating System[3]=Installation%20and%20Setup
An Old School Geek’s approach to Installing & Setting Up a Windows PC
SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation[3]=Installation%20and%20Setup
If it was me I would clean install as one of the nicest features of the SSD is is rips though the install in much less time. If your current spinner has more data then the capacity of the SSD then you won't be able to image the entire drive and bring that over.