Livin' La Vida SSD
The other day, I upgraded my laptop's hard drive from a 500GB 7200rpm drive to a 500GB Samsung 840 EVO solid-state drive. I purchased the SSD from Newegg.com for $290.00 (which is probably the most I've paid for a drive since 2007), and after taking about a week to get packaged by their warehouse and UPS taking their sweet time to get it over here, it finally came time for me to clone the contents of my HDD over to my SSD. The performance of my HDD had been dismal, especially as it became more full of Heaven knows what. (This is still an issue, hence why I recently downloaded Mark Russinovich's "du" program for Windows , so I could analyze which directories contained the biggest wastes of space.) As you'll see if you watch the video, it took over seven minutes for my computer to become responsive enough to be useful after a cold boot. Windows itself took a real long time to spin up, then it took even longer for my desktop icons to come up so I could actu...