Windows 10: Upgraded from 500GB SSD to 1TB SSD

Just finished swapping out my Samsung EVO 860 500GB SSD for a new Samsung QVO 860 1TB SSD on my Lenovo Ideacenter K450. Took about 1.5 hours start to finish.

1. Macrium incremental backup of existing 500GB SSD.
2. Swapped drives.
3. Clean install to 1TB SSD (to get new partition layout with 1909).
4. Booted Kyhi Rescue flash drive and ran Macrium to restore only the C: partition of the 500GB backup to the C: partition of the 1TB C: partition.
5. Ran Macrium's Fix Windows Boot Problems tool.
6. Shutdown, removed flash drive, powered up and system booted with no problems.
7. Ran Minitool Partition Wizard to expand C: to use the rest of the now unused 1TB drive.
Done. Rebooted and all is well except I now have an additional 500B of free space on my C: partition.

My drive 1 now looks like this:



:)

 

500GB SSD vs 240GB + 1TB HDD

i use a 120gb ssd for OS, 240gb ssd for Blizzard games and a 1TB HDD for everything else. I would upgrade the 240 to a 580/500gb if i had the chance though *Smile

 

500GB SSD vs 240GB + 1TB HDD

Same sort of dilemma here, I went with a 500GB 850 EVO SSD and 1TB HDD ... depending on what I'm working with vs. what I need to retrieve, most data will be on the 1TB drive and everything else (programs mostly) on the SSD.

Here's the 500GB SSD drive on my work laptop. There's some data on it, but only on the order of roughly 50Gb:

 

500GB SSD vs 240GB + 1TB HDD

He is really limited by budget, that's why he's asking for a choice between the two. Yes, he could get just the 250GB. or even the 500GB because its more future-proof. but for someone who is a photographer(he didn't have to say it if it wasn't a factor on his decision)... he definitely needs an HDD in his system(I was under the impression that he didn't have the luxury of already having extra storages available to store files.). If he bought just 250GB SSDs now. it will run out quickly. and he'll buy a secondary SSD as per your suggestion, and again restrained by budget, will probably buy another 250GB or 500GB, If he just bought a 1TB hard drive he wouldn't even be buying secondary SSDs yet. IF he runs out of space, just buy a bigger HDD for a cheaper price.

Anyway I'm all for SSDs. If I had the money I would get a 1TB SSD instead of a 500GB one.