Moving to a SSD how to transfer windows

[c627627]

Well this is interesting.

I switched from OCZ Agility 60GB SSD to OCZ Agility 180GB SSD and did this.


I connected empty 180GB SSD and booted with my old 60GB SSD. Partitioned the new SSD and ran a test on an empty partition. I then imaged the new SSD with exact same image, disconnected old drive and here's what happened, same results more or less.

 

[c627627]

More than 3 times better results with Agility 3 180GB SSD ↑ vs. old Agility 1 60GB SSD ↓ on exact same image:

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Is your system SATA II or III, I forgot.

 

[c627627]

http://usa.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1366/P6T_Deluxe/

SATA II, not likely to go SATA III before Intel Haswell CPU at least.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

That's why it looks like SATA II speeds lol. Grats on the upgrade though!

 

[c627627]

Right, but the point is that new SSD is more than 3 times faster than old SSD.

And not bad considering that the Windows 7 image of C drive was originally made on an mechanical drive.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

What did you use to move the image to the new SSD?

 

[c627627]

I formatted and partitioned the new SSD under Windows 7 or Vista - not Windows XP or earlier.

Then simply used existing old images and booted from USB Drive to image.

 

[c627627]

In case of Boot problems on multi boot installations, connect the new drive to another computer and use EasyBCD

http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=642



EasyBCD > File > Select BCD Store >

1. First Browse to the ROOT directory of the newly cloned drive
2. Then type BOOT\BCD > Open

This will open the *.bcd file inside the hidden BOOT folder on another drive and inside its BCD subfolder.


Edit Boot Menu > Delete existing entries

Add New Entry > SELECT: Windows Vista/7 then SELECT its current drive letter on the existing system being used right now > Add Entry

and/or for Windows XP:

Add New Entry > SELECT: Windows NT/2k/XP/2k3 > Add Entry

[Confirm they are there by going to the Edit Boot Menu.]

 

[ATMINSIDE]

That's why your graph is so much smoother.
Smart way to do it though.

 

[c627627]

What do you mean smoother?

 

[ATMINSIDE]

You don't get all the jumps up and down that you used to

 

[c627627]

Right. Old SSD officially had a big difference b/w reads and writes. Plus official specs vs actual performance on old Generation 1 SSD :


* Read: Up to 230 MB/s [I was getting 220 MB/s on Fresh Win7 install & 180 MB/s on non fresh Windows transferred from Mechanical Drive]

* Write: Up to 135 MB/s [I was getting 120 MB/s on Fresh Win7 install & 100 MB/s on non fresh Windows transferred from Mechanical Drive]


However

New SSD was officially
* Read: Up to 280 MB/s and I was getting 264 MB/s
* Write: Up to 260 MB/s and I was getting 257 MB/s


And on new Generation 3 SSD there was no difference to speak of b/w fresh Windows 7 install and old mechanical drive images. On old Generation 1 SSD there was.




Of course that's all SATA II ; SATA III would have been 500 to 525 MBs...

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Giving your north bridge a slight OC will bump those numbers to the official specs

Edit: At least, it helped mine.

 

[c627627]

Right. Still, for every day use, it's impressive how things are instantenous on i7 @ 4+ GHz combined with Generation 3 SSD.



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Intel i7 950 [206] BCLK x 20 = 4.12 GHz @ [1.4000] CPU Voltage & [1.35000] QPI/DRAM Uncore Voltage, Batch 3029A40
2 x 4GB Kingston HyperX T1 DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) [DDR3-1651MHz] 8-8-8-24 @ 1.68 DRAM Bus Voltage
ASUS P6T Deluxe v.1 [LGA 1366 Intel X58] BIOS 2209
Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme 1366 RT with 120mm Scythe S-Flex F fan
nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti PNY XLR8 1GB GDDR5 822MHz Core Clock
ASUS ATI Radeon HD 5450 [used for HDMI HD sound only]
OCZ Agility 3 180GB SSD
Asus Xonar DX sound card
Antec nine hundred case, two front 120mm fans, one back 120mm Fan, one top 200mm fan
Corsair CMPSU-750TX 750W

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Oh, most definitely. I didn't notice the difference, except in a benchmark