I just upgraded my computer and one of the upgrades I made was to change my 1T OS drive to a 500M SSD.

Man, the difference is phenomenal! everything is faster! even browsing loads faster, I'm assuming because of the disk cache it uses.

as far as "moving programs" from old drive to new: use a cloning program. I bought a Samsung EVO 850 and it came with "migrating" software which cloned my 1T drive onto my 500M SSD.

most things worked flawlessly after the migration, but a few things had to be "reauthorized." and even fewer things had to be reinstalled (IK Multimedia was some of the stuff had to be reinstalled - at least for me, others may have a different experience).