Not in the battery bay?
Also in the fresh install camp here, misaligned sectors will eventually eliminate the benefits of upgrading to SSD. AnandTech posted what is probably the most referenced article on the topic.
I could hit the "Reset my PC" button, which would remove everything except Windows.
Would that basically constitute a fresh install?
I checked alignment with the instructions here:
How to: Properly re-align your SSD/HDD partitions
And got the following results.
From what I can tell, the SSD is working well. I'm not an expert on this by any means, though.
Chris
Would that basically constitute a fresh install?
I checked alignment with the instructions here:
How to: Properly re-align your SSD/HDD partitions
And got the following results.
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
From what I can tell, the SSD is working well. I'm not an expert on this by any means, though.
Chris
If it is an OEM install of W8 then the product key is built into the BIOS. There are a couple of files on Youtube that show some install keys. As long as you use the correct type to match your installed version of W8, you can get away with using one of those keys. Once W8 is installed it will automatically drag up the correct key from the BIOS so that you can activate W8, and then upgrade to W8.1.
One word of advice: if your PC is using UEFI instead of MBR, use Paragon for backup and restore. Acronis falls down flat with UEFI. You won't be able to restore from a UEFI backup with Acronis.
Nice. I converted all mine to SSD, an original 60G OCZ Vertex with experimental firmware still does daily service in a Crunchbang netbook. Rock solid.
Misaligned sectors showed up as slow read/writes on extended use, generally after the entire drive was written at least once. It's worth holding on to that benchmark as a sanity check.
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