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Living Room / New SSd in an aging PC
« on: November 23, 2018, 05:44 AM »
Built my PC approximately 4 years ago and I'm just now getting around to adding an SSD to boot it.
I thought about installing a 500 GB SSD and cloning my C: drive, which is over 3.8 gigs full. But then I started thinking that I should be able to save money, buy a smaller SSD and download Windows 10 to the new drive because Microsoft uses the motherboard's model number and serial number as a reference for the product ID (I originally upgraded from Windows 7 Pro to 10 Pro).
Am I correct in thinking that?
So, my plan is to buy a 250 GB SATA SSD, dedicated to nothing but booting the OS and a few programs. Currently, I have 3 internal mechanical HDD's that store over 100 Steam games and years worth of pictures, videos and documents.
I'm thinking of buying this drive. Thoughts? Suggestions? Care to berate me for waiting so long to modernize my PC? (I have thick skin, so fire away).
Specs:
• Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3
• CPU: Intel i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
• OS: Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
• GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
• RAM: 8 GB
• PSU: 650W
I thought about installing a 500 GB SSD and cloning my C: drive, which is over 3.8 gigs full. But then I started thinking that I should be able to save money, buy a smaller SSD and download Windows 10 to the new drive because Microsoft uses the motherboard's model number and serial number as a reference for the product ID (I originally upgraded from Windows 7 Pro to 10 Pro).
Am I correct in thinking that?
So, my plan is to buy a 250 GB SATA SSD, dedicated to nothing but booting the OS and a few programs. Currently, I have 3 internal mechanical HDD's that store over 100 Steam games and years worth of pictures, videos and documents.
I'm thinking of buying this drive. Thoughts? Suggestions? Care to berate me for waiting so long to modernize my PC? (I have thick skin, so fire away).
Specs:
• Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3
• CPU: Intel i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz
• OS: Windows 10 Pro 64 bit
• GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7800 Series
• RAM: 8 GB
• PSU: 650W