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bthylafh wrote:but I lack the budget, time, and circular tuits to stick an SSD in this thing and reinstall the OS and programs.
ludi wrote:bthylafh wrote:but I lack the budget, time, and circular tuits to stick an SSD in this thing and reinstall the OS and programs.
Try making a CloneZilla bootable USB drive to bit-copy the existing drive to the SSD; that's what I did after getting a recommendation in another thread. My laptop had hidden partitions for OEM stuff, so I didn't have another option; I had to image it somehow. The HTPC was just a garden-variety Win7 install, but since that was cleanly built just a few months ago and I want to try out the Win8 scripted upgrade process, I didn't really care to rebuild it from scratch. Plus, I can re-image the SSD in about an hour if everything goes sideways.
bthylafh wrote:ludi wrote:bthylafh wrote:but I lack the budget, time, and circular tuits to stick an SSD in this thing and reinstall the OS and programs.
Try making a CloneZilla bootable USB drive to bit-copy the existing drive to the SSD; that's what I did after getting a recommendation in another thread. My laptop had hidden partitions for OEM stuff, so I didn't have another option; I had to image it somehow. The HTPC was just a garden-variety Win7 install, but since that was cleanly built just a few months ago and I want to try out the Win8 scripted upgrade process, I didn't really care to rebuild it from scratch. Plus, I can re-image the SSD in about an hour if everything goes sideways.
Given that my existing HD is 1.5TB (630GB used), I don't think I can afford an SSD that'd let me do that.
A large chunk of that is my Steam profile, though, and I've got an old 320GB drive kicking around as scratch space. Hmm.
edit: not a large enough chunk, alas.
flip-mode wrote:I'm waiting to see if the wife comes through for my birthday Nov 23. If not, I'll come through.
flip-mode wrote:So just use sleep (and/or hibernate, if you're willing to give up the space for the hiberfile) and only cold boot when necessary.Too bad my crummy motherboard makes fast boot time next to impossible. I'll have to look through the BIOS and see if I can eliminate some boot-time processes. Unfortunately, turning on my eSATA port adds about 20 seconds to the boot time.
flip-mode wrote:flip-mode wrote:I'm waiting to see if the wife comes through for my birthday Nov 23. If not, I'll come through.
The wife came through! Samsung SSD 830 256 GB. Good job, wife!
Too bad my crummy motherboard makes fast boot time next to impossible. I'll have to look through the BIOS and see if I can eliminate some boot-time processes. Unfortunately, turning on my eSATA port adds about 20 seconds to the boot time.
UberGerbil wrote:flip-mode wrote:So just use sleep (and/or hibernate, if you're willing to give up the space for the hiberfile) and only cold boot when necessary.Too bad my crummy motherboard makes fast boot time next to impossible. I'll have to look through the BIOS and see if I can eliminate some boot-time processes. Unfortunately, turning on my eSATA port adds about 20 seconds to the boot time.
JustAnEngineer wrote:There's still a benefit when you click on an icon and the application loads immediately.