Please Help me Make Right SSD Purchase?

[SiHawk]

I am a Senior and just built my 1st 'puter ever, in choosing the necessary parts for the build I now realize I made a mistake buying what people used to RAVE about, except they are now SATA, that being I installed a WD SATA 500GB Velociraptor,,,,,,,,,was told they are noisy by some....and now I know that that is sure true....constant chattering and it is the "slowest link" in me chain.
I have read that Samsung 840's and I think some other SSD companies include software and/or easily understandable instructions/methods to transfer/clone/migrate OS etc. from your present HDD to the new SSD. Something like this is what I am trying to find to review and choose, I thought it would probably just be a Samsung 840 250GB [on sale] BUT in reading reviews about them It turns out that they are telling all the truth when they make it sound that it is a "piece of cake" to "migrate" your data to their SSD....in fact turns out that they do include an unuseable program because you have to activate it with the Company that created it for a FEE of course. So they don't actually provide the software that YOU can use like it appears form their description.
Can someone please point me to an SSD that actually does provide somekind of software that will be easily useable by an older nerd? OR mayybe tell me another EASY way to maybe use a smaller SSD and keep the chatter box in the background......?????
PLEASE advise,,,,,,,,,,,and

THANKS, michael

 

[wansurfer]

Hi SiHawk (Michael),

I'm not sure I should give you advice for purchases since I may be in the same quandary as you but you're just a step ahead of me. However, maybe I can help ease the chattering. Did your computer case come with any kind of vibration dampening for hard drives? If not them maybe you can find something that will help like a cut rubberband so that it forms a strip of rubber. For example I have an old Antec case that uses special screws that can be sleeved with rubber for securing the hard drives. My newer Lian Li case has some little rubber pads that that the hard drive can sit on top of. Though I'm not sure the pads help that much. I didn't figure out what the pads were for, at first, and I kind of scoffed at the rubber sleeved screws when I first saw them in the Antec case but they actually did help.

 

[bbinnard]

Samsung just put up their own SSD cloning tool. Unfortunately for me it was about a week late - I had to use something else to clone my drive. But the 840 Pro is a great drive and I would certainly recommend it.

You can get the Samsung clone software at the 840 Pro download site. There is also a new hardware driver there which I'd recommend installing before you put any software on the new drive.