Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PCs Forum

This hard drive is 7200 RMP on this should is I am not sure on how to read the speed test I have the two test I done on my hard drive on my T420 lenovo thinkpad. Another thing that is bugging me about the SSD is can you use the hard drive like the HDD or do you need both and keep the O/s on the SSD and keep data on the HDD or can you keep the o/s and the data on the same SSD.


Another think before I go and buy a new SSD drive What should I get cause I don't know what the sata speed is on this laptop motherboard is it sata I or II or III I also heard that there is soon going to be a sata IIII

Another thing I know I ask you this before scott and i am sorry to say this again. Will windows 7 pro 64 bit disable the defrag and what do i need to do to enable Trim in windows 7 pro.
What i am going to is clone this hard drive on to a SSD. I know I don't have any viruses or maleware or any other stuff on here and I know windows 7 pro is stable. I just don't want to go though all the BS of redownload all the windows updates and drivers again.
When I do a clone that is everything and all bits of data and software is coping on to the SSD I have not done this before so this is new to me.

Thanks for the help.
I trust you more then I do carey holzman.

I highly recommend you install a SSD in your T420, I have two in my T520 and would never go back. Win7 will automatically disable defrag and enable trim for SSDs. Scott.

I use RoboCopy but I also trust Acronis. Let me know what you use and why. Scott.

I have look on newegg.com website and there are people that report scandisk Crucial and samsung and intel are bad and even over heated as well. I though the drives were better then the HDD.

hmmm.
and they say some of the SSD D.O.A as well.

and some of them don't last more then a year

I don't know if they were defrag the the SSD or what. or they don't know what the hack they are doing. hmm.

I still need a little help

I have order the acronis true image 2018 I order it off from Amazon it was cheap and what I am going to do is make a bootable USB drive for the Acronis like Carey holzoman made and boot acronis from there. I should also update the bios too. I will do that here soon right after i get the Acronis in about two weeks I hope this is Reliable SSD

I got the new SSD for the T420 thinkpad Now when i do a clone of that drive Do I need to download the Samsung magician and the essential toolkit Thanks.

It is the Nanad SSD 860 EVO 500gb this should work find with this T420 right with 8Gb of ram with windows 7 64bit pro.

and Later when this laptop dies in a few year I could use this SSD like in another laptop or even a Desktop.

I want to know what brand did you use in your T520 thinkpad.

Thanks you have a good day sir.

I hope i get a reply soon from you.


When cloning the drive the windows 7 will still disable the defrag and enable trim right. and I think in the bios the ACHI is enable is that fine. I maybe have other stuff to ask you. I want ask you then looking on line so I make sure I did this right the first time.
thanks again.

Hey Spiderman. I think I might be able to help you out. You don't really need Acronis unless you absolutely want it. You can use the . It's free. I used it and it works great. Just connect the new SSD to your laptop via enclosure or doc. Run the software and it's practically self-explanatory. You can easily cancel your Amazon order and save some money. Just trying to help you out.

I put a Samsung drive in my T520. Scott.

Installing an SSD is the single most effective way to speed up a system. Scott.

I currently recommend Intel and Samsung SSDs. Scott.

If you think the drive you received is counterfeit then I recommend you contact Samsung to see how you can tell. Let me know what you find, Scott.

I have some information that you can look into before I clone the drive and install it.

if you think I need to change something let me know ok.

I gave you the model of the samsung SSD.

here is the screen i got for you. if you need others let me know. thanks.

Now in the screen shots I have 8gb of ram I just want to know is it ok to enable Rapid mode on this V-nand SSD 860 Evo SSD. model number is MT-76E500

I now understand and I think I can trust windows 7 to do it job. I also want to know have you ever update on any SSD and HDD firmware

I gave you the information on this T420 in the screen shots above.

I also don't understand why is trim is enable on my HDD drive when it not a SSD I have not install it yet I am waiting for the Acronis to come so i can clone the drive.

I want to know how do you update the firmware on the new SSD that don't have any o/s install on it yet.


I just want to know how to go about it.


thanks.

Spiderman, just so you know . Not sure but maybe they will let you upgrade for free since you just purchased the 2018 version.

Yep, you should be able to get a if you purchased Acronis 2018 after July 23, 2018.

What is the manufacturer specified procedure? Scott.

Scott

1) is there a way to delete all the system restore points before i clone the drive to the SSD.


2) do I put the new SSD in the laptop and then hookup the HHD to a usb converter like the one i have from ugreen i got last winter.

3) do i need to and SSD drivers as well to make the new SSD bootable I am using the acroins 2019 to make the clone of the drive.


4) do i need to update any hardware drivers on this T420 before i clone the drive.

Thanks. if there anything else I need to know before i clone please let me know thanks. I want this to go good..

I make a bootable acronis flash drive.

You don't have to worry about restore points or drivers. Clone the drive to the SSD using the procedure Samsung recommends. Scott.

I have install the SSD and clone it and when ok but the sound did not work I had to uninstall the sound driver and restart the computer and now the sound is working what would of cause that?

I also want to know should I enable rapid mode. did you enable rapid mode how can i tell if defrag is disable scott.

and here is the the bench mark i ran on the drive.

this is what i ran and it looks good but should I enable rapid mode or not. it seems to be faster now. and I also Ran over provisioning and set aside about 10% of the SSD is that ok scott. Samsung 500gb total capacity of the SSD the magician sees is 466gb but the free space is 457gb (408 free)

I want to know does trem runs by itself or do i need to run trem and so how do i run trem on my SSD. Scott

Hey spiderman. If you look on the bottom of the Samsung Magician window, you can click on "Performance Optimization" and that will allow you to run trim. You can also click on "Performance Benchmark" and check your speeds- you should use that instead of Crystal Disk info which you seem to be fond of. I'm not sure what Scott thinks about "Rapid mode" but I use it on my pcs. I would enable it if I were you. I don't have over-provisioning running but I'm not sure what Scott thinks about using that feature.

Rapid Mode is a cache that uses RAM in the system, if you have enough memory then it wouldn't hurt to turn it on, but the performance increase (if any) isn't always noticeable. I wouldn't worry about over-provisioning with a modern drive on a modern (Win7 or later) OS. Scott.

If you are running Windows 7 or later TRIM is handled automatically. Scott.

it is a 500gb hard drive SSD

the one I just install last night I have notice now it is a bit low what do you think.
here is a screen shot

one more thing


should i Disable Disk Indexing or just leave it alone what are you thoughts on my new SSD
thanks.

I would leave it alone. Scott.

Looks fine to me. Scott.

*USB* 3.0 would significantly slow down a modern SSD. I recommend connecting SSDs through *SATA* 3.0 or better for optimal performance. Scott.