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I'll simply leave you with two facts: SanDisk's Extreme PRO can make a pokey old PC feel amazingly fast and fresh, and Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0 is worth paying for - especially if you can save a few bucks on it. If you want to learn more, CNET's Dong Ngo has a great migration tutorial. I'm only scratching the surface of the whole migration-to-SSD process. However, in my case, the system partition also had all my data, in which case Migrate OS lets you pick and choose folders to leave out. It's designed to copy only system and boot partitions, meaning you should have a much easier time moving to a smaller drive. The beauty of this tool is its simplicity. And although it normally sells for $19.95, you can get it for $15.96 when you apply coupon code paragonsmartpon at checkout. Needless to say, it's designed expressly for this purpose. (In my case, I was going from 750GB to 240GB!)Īfter a lot of fiddling with various cloning and migration tools, I settled on Paragon Migrate OS to SSD 4.0. Although there are freebie utilities out there that can clone one drive to another, few of them take into account some of the complexities of the SSD as your destination - particularly if that drive has a lower capacity than your current drive, a common scenario. Just one wrinkle: SanDisk doesn't provide any migration software, and you won't find it with a lot of other SSDs, either. Not to overstate the difference, but it's like a brand new PC. Instead, Windows loaded and was ready for action in about 30 seconds. After migrating everything from the old drive to the Extreme PRO, I swapped the latter for the former and powered up - fully expecting some kind of boot error. Surely this was yet another case of gunked-up Windows, right? I know full well that SSDs blow the doors off mechanical drives, but I wasn't sure what kind of difference it would make on this system. Wondering if the hard drive might be the culprit, I asked SanDisk to let me test one of its new Extreme PRO solid-state drives. After a couple of months, it was back to taking well over five minutes to finish booting. This was true even after I wiped the hard drive and reinstalled Windows 7. So I have this aging Acer Aspire system, a mammoth desktop replacement with a Core i7 processor, lots of RAM, dedicated graphics, and so on.Īnd you know what? It's slower than molasses in Michigan in January.

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