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Originally Posted by Soundy
As far as your computer is concerned, the SSD is just another hard drive - it doesn't know the difference, and you won't know the difference using it except it will be faster; everything will still work exactly as it did before. Once you're booting from the SSD, just reconnect the other drive, go in the BIOS, and make sure the machine is set to boot off the SSD. When you get into Windows, the old drive will show up as the next available drive letter (probably D: or E: )
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Just to clarify, Windows DOES know that it's an SSD, and will make changes to accommodate. This will allow it to run as fast as possible, without wasting a lot of writes.
As a result, any SSD you buy today will effectively last "forever" as far as write durability is concerned. Some may run slower than others as it gets filled up however, but things will always work in the background to have it running as fast as possible.
You should
always run
everything off the SSD as long as you have space for it. Do not disable anything, do not move anything off it...