Thanks. I have followed a similar philosophy for some time now -- keep the C: drive as lean, mean, and non-volatile as possible. The one thing that is an ongoing challenge is every program in the world now wants to install itself in C:\Program Files.

>My core install - Win 7, SQL Server 2008R2 and VS2010 and VS 2012 will fit nicely. The second drive (now the first drive) is 500 gb so total I'll have 750 without using the multiple terabytes of storage elsewhere on my network.
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>I like to keep the primary drive down to what needs to be mirrored anyway. My VS projects and data to use/test with them are fine on the primary drive, but otherwise data files and big MDFs go to secondary data drives.
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>>I know very little about SSD so this is just a curiosity question. (Or maybe one of my other specialties, a stupid question). 250 meg isn't very much storage any more, so how do you decide / control what goes on it?
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>>>Samsung 250mb SSDs are about $170 now so mine arrives tomorrow.
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>>>My laptop is an i7 and runs Win 7 64bit so seems like it will be worth the effort to upgrade the primary drive.
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>>>Found an HD caddy to swap into the CD Rom bay, so will move the current primary - 500 mb to that as a second drive..
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>>> Running multiple instances of VS2012, with SSMS etc is just getting tedious on my old desktop with 32bit. (and that's in 2012 and c# - vs2010 with a big VB app is painful. )
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>>>Laptop has 6gb now but I will soon bump to 8 (which is the official max. y580s are said to handle 16gb nicely but not sure about the y560 yet, though I suspect the processor and 64bit os are more the issue )
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>>>Anybody have experience of upgrading a laptop to SSD?
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>>>I hear is it a very nice difference. They say it comes with software to mirror current HD to new one but if not I have Paragon suite.
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>>>I'll report back tomorrow on results, or at least vent my frustration ( I hate hardware and all its evil works )