Windows 10: Dual boot Win 9 preview and Win 8

There are other sellers for this switch. Just search it up on ebay.

 

Look how cheap these SSDs are. They are not top of the line but even the cheapest ones are 10x faster than 7200rpm spinner drives. This is a cheap, safe and faster solution to dual booting Win 9 preview. I think I am gonna get another one.

 

The prices of SSD's in the 120 Gb range have certainly come down since I bought my first one, an OCZ Vertex III, about 3 years ago. I still use spinners for storage, but could never be satisfied with the performance of running an OS on them. SSD's have spoiled me forever. *Biggrin

 

I have a SSD arriving from Amazon today. Crucial 120GB for 67.00.
I'll use this for the OS/Programs and the current one for data and Win9 if I dual boot.
Jeff

 

Have fun with it Jeff!
I also have a Crucial V4 128GB SSD which I got for only $49 from a local store. Not the fastest type but it is sure fast enough. Just using it for Linux. *Smile

 

Thanks.. It came in about 30 minutes ago.
I'm just about all set to do the job and I'll wait until this evening after dinner.

 

I am sure you will never go back to spinners. *Smile

 

I like the SSD for the OS/Programs but I'm still keeping spinners for data and other things.
I just can't justify the cost of an SSD for general storage yet.
Jeff

 

I think that's what everybody is doing. I am not gonna buy any SSD that is more than 120GB anymore. I made a mistake of getting one Samsung 840 series 240GB and it is way more than what I need for just a boot drive. All my data goes to the HDD. But if you are doing dual or triple boot, I think it's ok. But I generally avoid doing dual boot on the same drive except it's just for pure testing and will be wiped out anytime.

 

I hear you on justifying the cost of storing data on an SDD. I have 5 HDDs for storage purposes and I think that is sufficient. *Biggrin

 

That's plenty! *Smile

 

I've had most of the spinners for quite a few years now and since I don't use them as an OS drive anymore they seem to last forever. *Biggrin

 

Yeah, I know. I myself have 8 spinners (not counting 4-80GBs). 6 are in active use on PCs, external storage drives and NAS.

 

I have no idea where you've seen many people having such issues. I don't recall the time when Windows (X) Beta version was so corrupted that it would ruin other Windows data, and I've tried quite a few, especially Windows 7 very early ones. Unless data was harmed, I don't see why dual boot is a dangerous choice, since you can easily recover whatever needs to be recovered, as long as it hasn't been corrupted/deleted/tampered with.

I might be wrong obviously, but I really don't think any version, including earliest public ones will be buggy enough to crash your entire system, both partitions and overall, entire HDD.

 

It can be a disaster. Especially if you are just drive testing a beta OS. Anything can get screwed up. Key word "boot manager". But if you know what you are doing, you may be okay.

If you've been reading a lot lately, you may have read somewhere that even the recent Windows 8.1 updates are screwing up the entire system. Now think about beta OS updates.