Just an update on this. The SSD is brilliant cuts down computer startup time to half at least, used to take over two minutes before hard drive would settle down loading startup programs now less than a minute. Would really recommend it to anyone who hasn't already got one.

I just installed the 500gb SSD partitioned the hard drive in windows disk management. Did my acronis image install, checked the Trim was enabled, checked that partition were aligned using mini tool partition wizard (free and good disk manager program will partition rebuild MBR and other things)

http://www.partitionwizard.com/

Disabled defrag and indexing and was good to go.

Couple of other things I could have done like disable superfetch but I read that they are not really important.

Hope the day comes soon when the old HDD are obsolete. I feel that the SSD has given the computer a new lease of life, applications load quicker as well.

Thanks to Matt and others on here for making me aware of SSD's in the first place though I waited a while for prices to come down.

Musiclover

Last edited by musiclover; 07/04/15 02:12 AM.
Musiclover

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Windows 10 (64bit) M-Audio Fast Track Pro, Band in a Box 2025, Cubase 14, Cakewalk and far too many VST plugins that I probably don't need or will ever use smile