Post by papaof2 on Sept 23, 2020 23:06:11 GMT -6
mechanical hard drives are and the difference using an SSD makes. Had occasion to pull out an older hard drive (80GB Hitachi 2.5" laptop drive) to check a new-to-me laptop (Dell E6430 from 2012) that had no HDD or OS. It probably ran two hours getting the latest Win 10 update downloaded and another two hours for the install. Nice that I could put that laptop almost in reach and let it run while doing other things.
I have a legal copy of Win 7 Premium and that's what will likely be on the 1TB SSD in the new laptop when the Win 10 update completes on the old drive. Yes, I hold on to the old drive when I update a PC to SSD - I consider it almost a hot spare as it had everything I use ready to be used when it was stored and it's just a couple minutes to swap back to the old drive and then put a pot of coffee on to brew while I wait for the old, slow drive to boot up and get updated :-(
Once Win 7 is installed, I'll be spending several hours getting all the tools installed as well. I even have a written list of those things ;-)
I have a legal copy of Win 7 Premium and that's what will likely be on the 1TB SSD in the new laptop when the Win 10 update completes on the old drive. Yes, I hold on to the old drive when I update a PC to SSD - I consider it almost a hot spare as it had everything I use ready to be used when it was stored and it's just a couple minutes to swap back to the old drive and then put a pot of coffee on to brew while I wait for the old, slow drive to boot up and get updated :-(
Once Win 7 is installed, I'll be spending several hours getting all the tools installed as well. I even have a written list of those things ;-)