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Regarding "seriously considering installing Linux on it and converting the current win7 install to a virtual machine", I am thinking along the same lines. If you do this, please let us know how that works out.
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Crucial is good brand.
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I hope you did NOT by a CRUCIAL SSD.
we will no longer install them. We have had 3 SSD Failures. ALL OF THEM CRUCIALS.
Oh, they replaced 1 or 2 of them under warranty. Useless because by then, they were too small anyways, but we did it to extract our pound of flesh.
2 of them were FIRMWARE Problems THEY CREATED by having some leftover testing code in. We used them for too many hours, and triggered the code. We use ABC: Anything But Crucial. LOL
We like the SanDisk ones, and have no problems. We replace every 3 years. Our machines are usually on 24x7.
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Nope. I pretty much stick to Intel SSDs. I have yet to have one die on their own without some external cause. I lost one when a cheap-a$$ SATA cable shorted out; sparks, fire, and smoke included. Lost most of the PC on that one 
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Well, all of the SSDs have 5-ratings amounting to between 84 and 87%, so in all truth, it's a crap-shoot anyway.
There's also this one in the same general price range:
Amazon.com: Samsung 860 Evo 500GB 2.5 inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E500B/AM): Computers & Accessories[^]
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After over 35 years of experience I seen EVERY brand of every component "screw-up".
I've had problems with SanDisk SSD's - strangely slow R/W was one. Replaced with an APACER Armor - not a major SSD player - and it "screamed". So there you are?!?!
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They are - I'm using one for my current home PC. But most laptops - especially older ones - wouldn't have the interface for it.
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Personally, I'd create another partition or two out of that unallocated space...just something I've always done.
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That's what I would do too.
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Another free partition manager: AOMEI Partition Assistant[^]
I used it to migrate my HDD to SDD, and it was a painless, simple process. And it resizes partitions very nid=cely without losing any info.
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I just recently updated my laptop from a 28 gb ssd to a 256 gb ssd. Not much choice if I wanted to get a recent Windows Update to work since most of the space was used for the OS, with only the smaller applications installed on the SSD, the big ones like Office on the hard drive. What really drove me was that I had a version of Visual Studio that expired, and could not install the free version on the secondary drive. Had to rebuild the machine. Anyway, if I was going to rebuild the machine, I figured I should just put in a new SSD since 28 GB was not going to hack it.
If this had happened to me it would have been pointless since I needed a bigger hard drive just to install the OS with its newest update. On the software I used it was obvious how to increase the space to use the whole drive.
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And breathes new life into my productivity. Why they don't use SSD's where I work is beyond comprehension.
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one company I visited "upgraded" most of their desktops, of course the cheap idiots bought machines (dells "clearance stock") "2015 models" with HDD's of course.
Complaint: "these new machines aren't any faster."
Anyway a couple of the machines had the HDD's fail - just over a year so no warranty. Was a bit quiet for me so I offered to help fix them up. Quoted them SSD's, of course "why so expensive? (500GB Samsung, cheap, of course more then HDD).
Anyway did convince them to go my way... and they loved it. (nice little couple days earner for a couple hours of actual simple work.)
Only remaining complaint [which strangely ONLY comes from those still on HDD]: "when is my machine going to break down?"
(I've suggested 'accidentally spilling coffee into the box' - no one has had the guts to do it).
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littleGreenDude wrote: SSD is definitely the way to go to breathe new life in to an old laptop
That, and more RAM if your machine accepts it.
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I once had the litereally same and I brought this upon myself. When doing something similar as you did, I used dd to copy the whole disk block-wise. With the same result, the one partition was as large as it was before. The solution is incredibly simple: Resize the partition. Windows' own diskmgmt.msc is perfectly able to do so.
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Totally agree with the subject of the original post.
A few months ago, I used the free version of Macrium Reflect to upgrade my HP ENVY DV7 from a 700GB HDD to a Samsung 860 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III SSD. The power on process is so fast that I no longer use Windows Hibernate when I power down at night. Furthermore, I have the free version of Macrium Reflect making daily incremental image backups and a once per month total backup image to my NAS device.
Very pleased with the result.
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Glad it worked. There are lots of partition managers out there. You can use the diskpart command line tool (not very user friendly) or the Windows disk management tool (right click “This PC” then select Manage). Make sure you have a complete backup before messing with the partition. I’ve never had a problem with it but you never know.
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I did the same and bought a new SSD for my old laptop ( DELL E5510 ). Unfortunatelym because the SATA interface was version 2, I can't take the full advantage of the new SSD!
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It's looking like I'll be starting a new job in the next month or so. I'll finally be done with Qlikview, but I'll be moving to something only slightly better - web development. The upside is that the work is, in fact, development, and will be done in C#, but I'm not yet sure when dev stack they're using.
I *think* they're using .Net 3.5 whatever version of MVC was in favor at the time, but I'm not really sure yet.
I'll be the dev lead, so I can make command decisions about updating the stack. Since I'm not really into web development, what's the latest stable "thing" right now?
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MVC 5 is fine. I recently updated one of the projects at work from 3.5 to 5.
The result is nice.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I'll be the dev lead,
John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Since I'm not really into web development
Glad I'm not on that team. Since you'll be leading something you aren't familiar with are you sure you weren't promoted to Manager? 
I believe Microsoft's recommendation for new projects today is to use the latest ASP.Net MVC packages.
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Specifically asp.Net core... and maybe the still experimental Blazor
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Jacquers wrote: maybe the still experimental Blazor
I'd be very hesitant about employing anything officially labeled experimental in a production level product...
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Agreed, but I think its a technology to keep an eye on.
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