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Buy cheap small HDD now, upgrade to SSD later?

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dinkumthinkum

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I am putting together a new system. I would like to add a SSD but I also hear it might be a good idea to wait until Intel G3s are out. If I go ahead and install on a small, cheap HDD for now, then would it be easy to move to an SSD in the future? Maybe a direct copy? Or better to just re-install?
 
Reinstall definitely. There might be issues with alignment on the SSD. Also you can a Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB for $55. I haven't found any small, fast, cheap drives. Everything is like 500GB or larger. There is the Spinpoint F4 320GB but it costs the same as the F4 500GB, and don't believe there's any real performance improvement overall.
 
Small hard drives are generally not very good buys when larger 1-2TB HDDs have lower cost per GB.

You could just get a 1TB HDD and use that as boot+storage until you get an SSD. Then re-install Windows on the SSD and use the 1TB as storage.
 
If your using Windows 7 you can create a image... then re image on the SSD..

simple ANy upgrade hardware failure you just buy new drive and re image it. Im assuming you created a image and use Winblows7 .... anyhow gl,
 
Eh, you have to be careful with images on an SSD. An SSD has to be properly aligned otherwise it can destroy performance and restoring an image from a hard drive to an SSD isn't guaranteed to maintain alignment with the current imaging tools available.
 
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