Windows 10: Are all SSD Hard Drives created equal?

Hi everyone. Getting ready to move from Win 7-64 to Win 10-64 when 10 is available next month. It's my understanding that Win 10 will not install over Win 7 so I'd like to install a new 250Gb SSD (I currently have Win 7 on a 128Gb SSD as C: ) for a clean install on it. Once all my files & software are transferred I'll keep the current 128Gb SSD as an extra drive.

So, are all SSD Hard Drives created equal? I'm looking at NewEgg & the prices are all over the place. My current SSD is a Cruicial 128Gb which has worked 4 yrs flawlessly.

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Failed Windows 10 upgrades from Windows 8.1 Pro - Boot repair error 0xc000000f - Corrupt NTFS partition

Something is up with Windows 10 and SSD Hard drives\Dells, have 3 Latitudes all with SSD drives, all had same issue, able to resolve 2 of them, still working on 1 of them.

Solution,

Take out your SSD Hard Drive

Put in a Reg non SSD Hard Drive

Install Win 7 SP1 or Win 8

Download Windows Media tool\Win 10 ISO (Create USB or DVD)

Upgrade to Windows 10 using USB\ISO, when complete, make sure its Activated

Now, put back in your SSD Hard Drive, do a clean install using the USB\ISO

Boom, you're up and going, hasn't worked on 1/3 Dell notebooks, researching will post update.

 

Migrating to a SSD - clone or fresh install?

Also to make it clear when cloning both the source (your hard drive) and the destination drive (your SSD) must both be connected.

When Imaging only the source (hard drive) and an external USB drive to store the image need be connected. After the Image Backup is created you remove the hard drive, connect the SSD and restore the image (using the image backup product's "Recovery Media"
which you need to create and boot from) to the SSD. Most products also have a "SSD" option check box to properly configure the SSD offset.

You can read a product's user's guide to see exactly what step are required for cloning or imaging.

: http://www.pagestart.com

 

Yes W10 is supposed to install over W7 and that is what M$ is going to do with there free W10.

 

You will be able to install Win 10 as an upgrade to Win 7 meaning you will keep your installed programs and data.

As far as the 2nd part of your post. No, not all ssds are created equal. Some have better performance or better reliability. For the most part the old saying holds true, "You get whta you pay for".

 

There's M.2 SSD, PCIe SSD, mSATA, and there's SATA SSD. The first one performs the best. But if your talking about the regular 2.5" SATA SSD, the answer is still "no" they're not created equal. But the popular Samsung 850 series is one of the good performers out there that doesn't hurt a pocket so much. *Smile

 

Thanks for the replies! The only reason I wanted a new SSD is because of my misunderstanding that W10 could not install over W7; meaning a clean install of W10 on the new SSD, as the W7 SSD lacks capacity (only 128Gb).

So, the install procedure would be;

• Save W7 data as an ISO (?) on a different drive.
• Download the W10 ISO & create an install disk.
• Load the disk so W7 is recognized.
• Install W10 as a clean install on the current C:

Something like that?

 

If you do a clean Install that will wipe all your W7 data and programs. If you want to keep your W7 stuff you need to do a upgrade that will keep all your data and programs and you will not need to reinstall. You do need to make a backup of your W7 so that if things go wrong you can restore and still have an OS.

 

You're confusing me. You say you want to do a clean install but then you say you want to have Win 7 "recognized" and then install Win 10. What do you mean that you want Win 7 recognized?

Since you want to go to a larger ssd, the way I would do it would be to clone your current ssd with Win 7 and all your programs to a new, larger ssd. Once that was in working order, I would then do the upgrade to Win 10 would would keep all of your installed programs in tact.

With a clean install you will need to reinstall all of your programs.

 

I was thinking of doing the same thing, I have 128 GB SSD on C with windows 7. I was thinking of this procedure:
— create image of C: partition with macrium reflect
— restore image to new SSD
— Upgrade new SSD to windows 10.

I always need a dual boot machine because I trust it better than windows emergency repair stuff, in case something goes wrong.

 

If you want to find out about SSD's go to Storage - The Tech Report and read all articles about the Endurance Experiment. The winner was(which I use as system drive on my desktop) the Samsung 840 Pro 256GB with over 2 Petabytes*Thumbs and when I was thinking of getting a Kingston M2, but after reading the specs, my Samsung still blows it away:
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I'm pretty sure you can directly upgrade Windows 7 to 10. You don't have to do a clean install.

 

Sorry to confuse you. My computer terminology & skills are lacking.

I assume the W10 install disk will search for the presents of an up-gradable OS like W7, W8, etc. Otherwise M$ will want a fee.

I said, "Save W7 data as an ISO" when I should of said clone W7, as you did.

I wont need a new SSD if W10 upgrade properly over W7 & keep my software intact.

 

A SSD Price Question for the forum family:

Is it likely that SSD prices will come down further? My "Windows Experience" index and other tests point out my 1 Terabyte Western Digital Caviar Green (2009) hard drive as the weak link in my system. In task manager, it loves to peg at 100%, even while RAM and CPU barely budge.

I'd love to keep it simple by cloning my entire hard drive over to a 1 TB SSD drive. But those with the best user ratings are running just over $360 at Best Buy. Too much. Any feelings on where prices are headed for the 1TB SSD drives?

I'm only using 610GB of the hard drive...so I could probably get by with a smaller capacity SSD, but that's my second option...if the 1 TB SSD prices don't come down by 40%-50% by Christmas. Thanks in advance to those of you who respond.
-Allen

p.s. Wow.. I see one at the Best Buy website for $10,763.10! It's an HP ioDrive2 drive. Who would need that???