Samsung 256GB 830 Series SSD for £142.98 at Ebuyer
Here it is again, within 3 quid of the superb expired Amazon deal.
296 in stock at the time of posting.
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Jump to unread Post a CommentEdited By: muckilla on Jun 13, 2012 01:26
1: I guess I would need to shift my itunes onto an external drive - guessing this is simple enough (the process I understand its Itunes I dont get along with).
2: Can I move some Steam game downloads (those im not playing) onto an external drive and just keep say Skyrim, Alan Wake etc, the Steam forum says this is not to be advised but I guess still possible?
3: I have to have microsoft office installed - will I encounter licence issues (also includes windows 7 licence i guess) shifting it over to a new SSD drive?
Thanks in advance!!
Heat added, thanks for the heads-up.
Edit: Scan have it for £146.70, which for people who still get free next day delivery (like me) is better for the impatient!
Edited By: Stop It on Jun 13, 2012 08:24
steam: dont download the games you dont play
didnt use steam in a while
win7 yes you must activate it but shouldnt be a problem
Not sure about office
will you clone your old drive?
Edited By: cojack on Jun 13, 2012 09:36
1: I guess I would need to shift my itunes onto an external drive - guessing this is simple enough (the process I understand its Itunes I dont get along with).
2: Can I move some Steam game downloads (those im not playing) onto an external drive and just keep say Skyrim, Alan Wake etc, the Steam forum says this is not to be advised but I guess still possible?
3: I have to have microsoft office installed - will I encounter licence issues (also includes windows 7 licence i guess) shifting it over to a new SSD drive?
Thanks in advance!!
In answer to Question 2, you can have steam games in 2 different locations but you need to have seperate copies of steam on each drive . It doesn't like you installing games on anything other than the same drive that steam is on. I have my SSD drive with Syndicate and call of duty on with one copy of steam, and my data drive with another copy of steam on that has all my other steam games installed on.
As for question 3, if you have moved enough off of the old drive to enable you to clone it then you wont have an issue with the windows 7 and Office licences as Microsoft don't see any change. (I know this as i've replaced the drives in both my laptop and desktop with SSDs, one with a Crucial M4 and the other with this Samsung drive and its been fine).
I recommend that you DON'T use Ghost as it's a real PITA! After many issues with trying it myself I ended up downloading Macrium Reflect (which is free as well) and it was far far easier to clone with ;)
Edited By: Waterboy8535 on Jun 13, 2012 09:57
No it isn't.... TCB is like 1.5% and Quidco is something like 2%.
Yeah it's backwards compatible. I'm using a SATA III SSD on my SATA II connection.
You're welcome, it took me a while to figure that one out. If you want to access the game on your SSD drive then I just click the desktop icon for that game and it starts the steam on that drive. If I want to access the game on my other drive then I click the game and it opens that drives version of steam.
Simples 8)