Have I wasted my money on a my new SSD's?

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Basically, long story short i've bought two Kingston 120GB SSD for increased speed on my PC, but i've just realized I can't do a fresh install of windows, i've got atleast 1.1 TB of data on my PC at the moment and I can't back all of that up, also my internet speed is slow as hell and it takes me days to download games so i'm not willing to wipe my games clean either.

I would clone my OS but i've heard its risky business so i'm not sure, if I loose all my data i'm done for. So basically i've kind of wasted my money, my OS isn't going to run any faster and that sucks, should I just get a refund as I'm not too bothered about waiting for loading times in games, and atm my ssd's only seem like that's what they'd be used for, as I can't install my OS on them, so my PC will be just as slow.

If theres anyway around this that is safe and secure please let me know.
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OK, no prob. The 120 will work. Just don't let it get too ful. No more than ~85GB actual used space.
It could have been worse, and you were one of the poor people who find these 32BG SSD's on ebay, thinking it is a great deal.
Like this guy: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3189959/ssd.html
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If you have your original Windows OS media just do a fresh install on one of the SSD's. Unplug all other drives and install SSD, boot to BIOS and check that AHCI is selected for your(New) C: drive. Install your OS. If your internet is slow it could take a while.
 
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After buying an SSD, you have two options of how to get the OS and other things on that drive.

1. Clone - Obviously, this will not work here.

2. Clean install - Why can't you do this?

And why did you buy 2 x 120GB instead of a single 250GB?
 
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I got confused sorry, I have a 1TB HDD at the moment with about 900gb full. I have ordered 2 120gb kingston SSD. I don't want to loose all of that 900gb and I don't have a second hdd to back it up onto so is there any other safe way I can go about this? Why wouldn't cloning my os work? (I went for 2 120gb for aesthetics)
 
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Because you can't clone only the OS. Some cloning applications, like the Samsung Data Migration (which you can't use), let you leave off things like video/music/pics. But other than that, everything goes.

"aesthetics" ? OK, if you say so.
Sacrificing performance and money, but OK.
 
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^ what USAFRet said - Can see no sense whatsoever in 2x120gb drives instead of a single 240??
You stood a lot better chance of shrinking & cloning your windows install onto a 240gb drive.

You can infact shrink the windows drive by making a new partition on your existing drive (if you have space),moving things over manually & setting mount points in windows.
A clean install is far far easier though.
 
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Ok, I'll wipe it, if that's what I have to do, I'll do it. You think you can give me some steps on how to wipe my drive and start fresh with my SSD? Doesn't neeed to be super detailed just enough. Thanks.
 
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Wipe what? The HDD? No need, right now. We'll do that later.

Install the OS on one of those 120GB SSD's.
Disconnect ALL drives except the target SSD.
Install the OS.
Install all the relevant drivers, and run all the existing Windows updates.

Later, we deal with the HDD and the other SSD.
 
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I was going to say - If he is insistent on keeping 2x120gb ssd's then personally I would at least raid them just to get a bigger main c partition.
 
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You don't have them yet??
I highly recommend sending them back and getting a 240/250GB.
What make/model are these drives?
 
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Yes, probably the crap V300 series. Cheap, because retailers are trying to dump the inventory that no one wants.
They are cheap for a reason.
 
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because its ultimately pointless when the greatest aspect of an ssd is as an os & boot drive.
What are you going to use the second drive for exactly??
By the time trim comes in to play & after formatting these drives will be roughly 100gb apiece,
A single 240gb drive would have made much much more sense ,& I honestly cant believe you got 2 of these for much less (if any ) than a single 240gb drive of the same model.

Admittedly the uv400's are probably one of the best looking drives cosmetically on the market & theyre fairly solid budget performers so kudos in that respect.

By all accounts run them in a raid 0 setup to give 1 single drive partition but be aware that if one drive fails all data will be lost anyway.

 
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Compared to a single 250GB, slightly lower performance and higher price.
And that UV400...I would not buy. There are other, much better ones.

What did you pay for those each, compared to a single 240GB of that same model?

At Amazon, the 120GB is $40
https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-SSDNow-SUV400S37-120G/dp/B01FJ4UN76

The 240GB is $60
https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-SSDNow-SUV400S37-120G/dp/B01FJ4UL2S

100% more space for 50% more $$. Prices in your market may vary.


Further, a 120GB SSD will constrain you in the near future. OS and applications and OS updates....120GB will feel rather slim before too long.
Can a 120GB work? Sure. But a 250GB, for less money and faster performance, is better than 2 x 120GB drives.
 
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I can see how having a second drive can confuse things, but going as far to say i'm going to loose performance? It's difficult to beleive. Also, i don't think I want raid, too risky.
 
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With SSD's, a larger drive is generally a little bit faster than a smaller one.

The larger drive does not have to do quite so much work when shuffling bits around. It has more extra space to do that.
Will you notice that? Maybe not. But why pay extra money for that?

In my main PC, I have 4 x SSD's. Each have their own function. Properly sized to that function.
This system started out with a 120GB SSD OS drive 4 yrs ago. Then a 250GB. Now a 500GB.
The other SSD's do other things.

With today's prices, a 120GB is rarely a good option. Unless you just have one laying around.
 
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Ok, I'm going to keep my two 120GB as I think they will serve all my needs at the moment. One last question, how much of the os will take up the 240GB? Win10 Home Edition
 
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You will use from 22-27GB for a WIN10 install. Yes, I put my OS and drivers on my SSD and you can move some other programs to the SSD if there is room. Multiplayer games often will load faster using an SSD, especially the map intensive games.
 
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"move programs"? No.
They need to be installed on whichever drive. You can't just 'move' them after they have been installed.

Steam games can be installed on whichever drive you want.
Like this:
Steam games location
In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder
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