After Harddrive installation shouldnt my Windows Experience Index Scan improve
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Deffinitely, on the bottom there's the graph showing HDD transfer rate. In my system almost everything is 6.9 or 7+ but HDD is the bottleneck and so it's 5.9 just like the lowest bottleneck. If your video card and ram are good, newer faster HDD has to raise the score.I'm getting it due to horrendous loading times on almost everything by now, not some score. PC and HDD is 4 years old, started to show. Score has to improve too though.Update as of 03/18/2015: was 5.9 transfer rate, now 7.6 transfer rate.
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No, and once you use the SSHD for a little while it becomes a regular hard drive. Except if you only go on and play 1 or 2 prpgrams and ot a bunch of diff apps. THe 8gb get clogged up fast and youll notice a speed increase about 3 days after using it then slowly begin to slow down again as the system cant decide which files should be ready to go the way you can on a regular ssd. Would not buy again.. get the Wester Digital Black 2 , ssd + 1tb dd combo ... a real ssd...
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Yes. I was disappointed. I really did not see a speed increase. My friend bought the same one and said there was. However, he upgraded to Win 8 and did clean installs. That was probably why. If want SSD speed buy an SSD drive.
158277
Better to add it as a second drive --some software won't run on Windows 8.1, but all the data files should be readable. Also, it is likely that the drive with the new machine is much larger and faster than the one in your old machine.
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Not sure, but likely since I have this working in my Lenovo T430s laptop with an mSATA slot. I am using it as my primary bootdrive, and it's working beautifully for the past 3 months. Windows Experience Index for Primary Hard Disk went from 5.9 to 7.6. It is important to note that Lenovo does not "officially" support using the mSATA slot as the primary boot drive; however, it is working just fine. I'm guessing Dell has a similar stance.
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I am not familiar with the drive you have but if the connections match, give it a go. In my situation, it was the PC that crashed with a healthy hard drive. All I had to do was remove the hard drive from the PC and hook it up to Apricorn and I was back in business. I wish you all the luck!
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Internally: No idea... externally yes. But it is slow and locks up as it is. I think its the windows 7 op system that is the problem.
594625
I think you will have to buy a copy and reimage it. I have been very happy with Windows 8. You might want to try it for a while before investing in 7. Good luck!
765103
I used the system profiler. I believe you might be able to check by right clicking on the drive and selecting get info as well.
475832
There isn't a hard drive. It's a SDD. You ca check Crucial.com, they have a scan tool that will evaluate your machine and recommend upgrades.
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Don't know why. My Windows 7 laptop routinely forgets the super drive and jump drives for no reason other than it's driven by Windows.
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Yes, I'm sure you can. As I understand it, Microsoft maintains a record of your Windows software associated with your computer, not your hard drive. Your clean install at a later time will require deleting the original install if both drives are present at the time. In a worse case scenario, you might have to call Microsoft customer support if you have a glitch; just explain to them what you are trying to do and they will get you through it.
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That's what I am using right now. Replace the rotating dasd with solid state. Wish I could do that on my desktop. I am not sure what that PC model is, but it will work. You must have a way to copy ALL data from old drive C:. I used some purchased utility to help. To be done only if you know what you are doing.
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Mine doesn't. Have had the machine for at least a couple of months now and have been totally satisfied. Windows 8 was a little hard to get used to after XP but I can pretty much make it do what I need now.
196626
Most likely yours is defective then, we had tested in on Win7 & 8 without problem
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I see no improvement. I just wasted time and money. As soon as I can I'm putting my 2tb drive back in. If you try it don't expect ssd speed
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The windows index speed is at 5.9. But this is in my opinion incorrect. This score is limited by the actual speed of the hard drive. But doesn't take in account for the 24 gig ssd that the hard drive uses to cache In and out of. These new hybrid drives are extremely fast. I have a dell m6700 fully loaded at 7.4 and this desktop is faster.
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It did not work for me. My advice is do not take a chance on it. I downloaded the FREE EaseUS ToDo Backup application and cloned my entire hard drive to a smaller solid state drive as easy as copying files in windows. Then I just plugged the new drive and it started the computer just like the old one. I can't imagine it can be easier than this.