>>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 )
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>Charles, I'd advise to go for a slightly more expensive SSD from either the 830 series or the 840 PRO series. The reliability of the 830 was a making the deal for me, even though it is slightly more expensive. Reinstalling a computer because of a crashing HD would cost me much more than the sight difference between cheap and slightly more expensive SSD

Thanks, Walter. I have the drive in front me now. It is the 840 but not PRO. I will be mirroring to the second drive so we'll see how it goes. Right now just dumping everything I can off the old HD so when I mirror onto the SSD I only have what I really want.

Heads up for anyone else doing this
Samsung MZ-7TD250BW 840 Series Solid State Drive (SSD) 250 GB Sata 2.5-Inch comes with software to clone your OS etc onto the new drive BUT if you don't have an SATA to USB cable you want the MZ-7TD250KW (notice the KW ) which is about $15 more and comes with the "installation kit" i.e. the cable so you can plug the SSD into a USB port while you clone.