My Intel SSD came with a rails kit to mount two SSD drives into one hard drive bay. I'm sure you can buy the rails kit seperately.

I wonder if it needs to be grounded to help avoid static charge damage?

I agree with Don (see that, my dancing bird friend, it DOES happen ever so occasionally...) the grounds connected via the wires should provide adequate protection along hose lines.

But I likely wouldn't just leave the SSD where it could flop around freely, just in case someone would move the machine or it gets knocked, etc.

I'd look for a flat surface that the cable could reach and ATTACH the SSD drive to that flat surface using a couple pieces of double-sided foam tape, or some of that stickon hook and loop "velcro" fastening stuff. That way, I wouldn't be leaving it open to the bad situation where the drive might flop around and short out things on the mobo, etc. causing $$$ damage to components.


--Mac

Mac, I've marked the congruence of our opinions quite boldly, indelibly oot on the oot hoos wall, my friend. You've re-newed my faith in miracles.

I am just about to it one and use it for my system drive. I chose a Samsung 830 256gig. It comes in three flavours, basic, laptop and desktop kits. Its arrived and there is an aluminium housing and there are a couple of cables too.
What I plan to do is fit it, alter the bios disk priority to the dvd drive, install windows on the SSD alter the priority again so as Windows Loads from the SSD, then format the old drive (which had a virus) and leave it in stitu. Once I have everything nice and dandy on the new operating system, imasge the new system drive onto the old drive. Incidently the samsung has a good reputation for reliability and is reasonably quick. It comes with Norton Ghost freebie, but I have been advised several sources NOT to use it and use Acronis - its free too and apparently much easier to use.

Its going to take weeks to get my system back up and running - so if you follow me I advise imaging when your system is pure. System restore got wiped by my virus.

Macrium Reflect is a freebie imager

Thanks for replies everybody, will get an SSD in the futire when funds allow to help speed up boot time, cut out drive noise etc.

Hope the reinstall is going well Zero, if its any comfort even with doing a system image, I still find I have a do a reinstall every few years anwyays as windows eventaully slows down and its easier to start from scratch again, a fresh reinstall.

Probably a good idea to do an image just after reinstalling windows and drivers (and another image when you have your programes reinstalled and keeping both) so that when you do come to reinstall a few years down the line, you can use that early image of windows again.

musiclover

Ok So I have now completed fitting my SSD drive. One thing people should note is that if your copy of windows was orignally installed on a HHD drive your bios will be set to IDE. So, with advice from samsung I edited the registry first in windows:

http://www.ithinkdiff.com/how-to-enable-ahci-in-windows-7-rc-after-installation/

then I altered the setting in the bios to ACHI (Whatever that means)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976/en#method1

I am no techy but...

I understand that SSD drives write there sectors in different ways to HHD drives and they need something called garbage collecting to be enabled and something called Trim. SSD drived dont have the same life expectency for rewrite processes so cenrtain backroom process can be a diservice to the longevity of the drive. You may wish to cherry pick from this list:

http://maketecheasier.com/12-things-you-...ws-7/2012/05/11

Overall I find everything definitely faster - in fact very fast on my older Core i7/12 gig 64. BIAB is very zippy

hope this helps.

Zero