So I get an Intel what I do now

[MarkOne]

SO I will have my Intel wenesday, my OS is on a 60 GB partition. Win 7 , 64 bits, ( like if I was planing to go SSD ) can I clone it to the SSD ? , or it's better to reinstall ( I know it's better but I just build this one so ...) , and what else I should do before......

[ayah]

You can clone from a mechanical drive to an SSD, but it won't bode well for performance.
You should unplug all hard drives/flash drives from the computer, set ahci mode in your bios and then install a fresh copy of Windoze 7.
The OS will align it differently because it's an SSD in comparison to a mechanical drive.

[gingerbee]

good advice there add your spinners after all drivers and tweaks make sure you rate your system with only the ssd in then add the hd's

[ayah]

Originally Posted by gingerbee

good advice there add your spinners after all drivers and tweaks make sure you rate your system with only the ssd in then add the hd's

I had a flash drive plugged into my system when I was installing Win7 and the install failed twice and I just couldn't figure out why. So unplugged the drive and voila, easy install.

[gingerbee]

7 has some major lock down on hardware that's just is bull ( tricks of the trade i guess )

[MarkOne]

I guess with ahci I have to put the dvd drive on the gigabyte controller and let this one set on ide ?

[AkG]

Honestly, with my SSDs I've always left them in Legacy IDE mode.

IMHO, AHCI is over rated unless you need the hot swap abilities it offers...plus where I run mainly Indi SSD's they need to be in IDE mode to update the firmware so its one less hassle to worry about ;)

YMMV.

[gingerbee]

I use ahci because i need hotswapping but it's not a big deal to switch and then switch right back ( you can install in ahci then switch back and forth from ide to ahci when needed I do it all the time )it will just install the driver that's need at boot

[MarkOne]

so why I have a suggestion to use ahci ? I said in the other post than I want the less hassle problem, after read the post of ayah and gingerbee, i was in the impression that I NEED ahci with SSD

if ahci is only better for the hot swap option. I guess I can live without it. In my case I see no use to hot swap, aside of change a defective drive in my raid 5 server

now the reason I want the less hassle possible, is not because I can't handle them, it's because I want to make a test setup that I can also suggest to my customer

[gingerbee]

Originally Posted by MarkOne

so why I have a suggestion to use ahci ? I said in the other post than I want the less hassle problem, after read the post of ayah and gingerbee, i was in the impression that I NEED ahci with SSD

if ahci is only better for the hot swap option. I guess I can live without it. In my case I see no use to hot swap, aside of change a defective drive in my raid 5 server

now the reason I want the less hassle possible, is not because I can't handle them, it's because I want to make a test setup that I can also suggest to my customer

were on the same page if you don't use hotswaping then don't. but most people want to use esata drive now ( well my customers do ) so i have been use ahci a lot. and the reason is that some ssd's show a slight speed increase in ahci or ide depends on the ssd