Partitioning for SSD upgrade

[dhash]

I've been a lurker on here for a while, and am currently building a desktop that I had a question about.

I will probably be upgrading to an SSD for the OS/program files (likely in the 120-128 GB range), but I'm holding off on buying one for the initial build so I can keep watching the technology develop and prices drop. I'm planning to use a WD 1.5 TB Caviar Black drive for everything initially, and I was wondering if it would be beneficial to put a ~100 GB partition on that drive, on which I could install everything that I would plan to commute to the SSD. Then, the idea would be, when I do get an SSD I could clone that entire partition onto the solid state drive with no need to reformat the OS, reinstall programs, etc. I'd then want to erase and merge the original partition back onto the data drive.

Is this a feasible solution, or are there better methods that have been established for what I have in mind?

Thanks.

David


--Note--
The build components I have or am accumulating are:
- i5 2500K
- ASRock Extreme3 Gen3
- 8 GB, DDR3 1600, C9 Corsair Vengeance (low-profile)
- (2x SLI) Zotac GTX 560
- Antec Nine Hundred Two V3
- Antec HCG-750
- WD 1.5TB Caviar Black, 64 MB
- LG WH12LS30 Blu-Ray burner

 

[Diogenes2]

If you are running Win7, just keep the partition you plan to migrate, smaller than the SSD. I would keep to about 80G.
Use the Win7 image back up utility to back up the C partition; then you can just restore it to the SSD . You can then use Disk Management to expand the SSD partion to use the available space on the drive..

 

[dhash]

Thanks. I'll be running Win 7 Professional (64-bit), so that sounds like it will work well.