>>>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
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>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.
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>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.

Another heads-up:

I recently installed a Samsung SSD. IIRC older versions came with a free copy of Ghost for cloning. The one I bought no longer included this but came with proprietry Samsung cloning software. Problem was (and confirmed by Samsung) that it would not clone my OS version (64Bit Win7 Ultimate). Ended up biting the bullet and doing a complete reinstall of the OS.

Luckily, and surprisingly, all went smoothly enough and allowed me to clear out a lot of crap :-}