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I have a good installation of Win7 x64 on a hard drive, but I wanted to try out a solid state drive for the OS. Bought a relatively cheap 30Gb SSD on sale to install the OS on. I'd like to leave my existing installation alone, and do a fresh install on the SSD, then compare performance by switching between the boot drives in BIOS.
Do I assume correctly that I can run from the SSD for up to 30 days before either activating the SSD install, or abandoning the SSD and continuing to use the existing hard drive install? Will I run into issues with validation, especially if I like the SSD speed and make that my permanent installation, abandoning the hard drive install? Will validation be rejected because I changed the boot drive?
Would also like to hear any opinions of whether the SSD is too small, or not worth the effort. It's got decent read performance, but pretty bad write performance (for an SSD). FWIW, it's a Kingston "ssdNOW V series" 30Gb.
Do I assume correctly that I can run from the SSD for up to 30 days before either activating the SSD install, or abandoning the SSD and continuing to use the existing hard drive install? Will I run into issues with validation, especially if I like the SSD speed and make that my permanent installation, abandoning the hard drive install? Will validation be rejected because I changed the boot drive?
Would also like to hear any opinions of whether the SSD is too small, or not worth the effort. It's got decent read performance, but pretty bad write performance (for an SSD). FWIW, it's a Kingston "ssdNOW V series" 30Gb.