Just ordered a SSD Hard Drive, now what?
I ordered a SSD HD the other day, and hopefully it will be here this week.
Is there anything I need to know before I install and set it up? Do I optimize it the same way as I would a regular HDD?
Any advice would be appreciated. 
It is no different than a platter hard drive.
It sure is. You’re better off disabling defragmenting and indexing, for example.
Welcome to the very happy SSD club, by the way! Good times ahead..
Windows 7 should notice it is an SSD drive and not defrag that drive on its own. Doesn’t hurt to double check though.
Nevermind, I see Vista in his sig.
SCREEEEEEEECHHHHH
Sorry nearly shot straight past this thread cos my SSD is SO DAMN FAST!
Loljk I’m on my ancient work PC
Uh, Vista.. Then the most important tweak is to upgrade to 7. Vista doesn’t have TRIM support which is pretty bad. I would also never use Vista for DJ’ing, unless you never take it out of your room.
Yes, this. While you are switching out drives I would go ahead upgrade to Windows 7.
research before purchase, such a wonderful tool 
however, I have a question that’s on topic (:eek
If I want to totally switch out my hdd for ssd, what needs to be done? In terms of copying disc images and such?
You could create a system image (there’s a couple of 3rd party apps able to handle that for you with a couple of clicks) and clone your entire system, or you could just backup the data you need and start with a fresh install.
I usually do a clean install, I’m always amazed at the amount of crap I don’t actually need.
Carbon Copy Cloner is pretty popular if you do want to go the direct copy route.
Isn’t that OSX only?
oops, yes you’re right.
So I should upgrade to Win7 prior to installing my SSD, got it.
Clean install or just upgrade?
upgrade discs have a clean install option. As long as windows is present on the system already.
@subculture: No, not prior, you just need (well, are advised to have) 7 on your SDD. It’s possible to upgrade from Vista to 7, but I really don’t recommend it. Start clean, always better, especially when Vista is somehow involved!
So then I’ll need to clone the present system to the new drive then run the clean install?
Looks like I’ll be off to staples to get Win7. Anything else I should be aware of?
Cloning would just get you back to vista, that’s why it’s called a clone.. you only need to backup your data!
Eh, not really, just buy the 64-bit version.
I wouldn’t “clone”.
I would backup all of your data to an external drive > install the new drive > install Win7.
Make sure you get the 64bit version since you have 4GB RAM.
LOL Stephan. We should open a tech support shop.