[dba-Tech] SSD Pricing

[Arthur Fuller]

Gary,

Sound advice. Thanks.

A.

On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 8:53 PM Gary Kjos <garykjos at gmail.com> wrote:

> $50 isn't a bad price for that.  You need to both drives mounted
> somewhere.  SO you will need an open drive slot OR you would use an
> external drive bay of some kind to attach  the drive to the computer
> and then you would use software - the drive company would likely
> provide the software to do the copy.  But you need to have both the
> old and the new dirves in the same system somehow to do it.  And it
> will take some time.  Half hour or an hour maybe.  It's certainly
> doable on your own though.  I've not switched SSD to SSD but have
> switched Rotating to rotating and rotating to SSD a few times and it's
> not really hard.  Have to jump through some hoops most of us are not
> used to.  Creating disk partitions and such.  Good to have a second
> system available to investigate options as you go if you run into a
> question but the system should be usable until you switch the cables
> after the new drive is deemed ready to use.