NVMe SDD bootable drive through the PCI express slot??

Your drive may come with cloning software?

Standard recommendation is Macrium, although I think Aomei, Paragon, and others can do it. Acronis has a lot of complaints.

thank you guys for your input.

Plenty of choices, aomei backupper is pretty simple to use - they do a free ( standard ) version.
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video shows upgrading cpu on dell sff

Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 and upgraded to Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66GHz SLGT6


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Probably quite a lot you could do with that machine.

https://www.dell.com/downloads/globa...idebook-en.pdf

I bought it as a refurb PC and it came the intel core 2 quad q9550 so I think that is the highest I can go with the 235w PSU that came in the SFF PC's. But she's been a good pc so I think a little love is needed with and upgraded SSD and a bit more ram.

jkujawa762 said:

I can get ddr2 ram for pretty cheap so I probably will go both 2.5 ssd and more ram. what software do you recommend to clone the os for a bootable drive these days?

The SSDs I've purchased over the past few years either came with drive cloning software or had free software available for download.

The nice thing about such software is that it's intended for that single purpose, so it's simple to use.

Just noticed the free version of aomei doesn't do system clone ( it does partition/disk clone).

Yes, ssd usually come with, or have a link to, some cloning software. often an oem version of acronis. Might as well use that.

SIW2 said:

Probably quite a lot you could do with that machine.

https://www.dell.com/downloads/globa...idebook-en.pdf

yeah I hate to give up on her its been a good machine.

According to the manual it can take 4x2gb DDR2. Sata ssds will be a speed boost compared to a regular spinner, even on a sata 2 connection.


DDR2 is very cheap, and an ssd can always be moved to your next machine, whenever that will be. It is not a gamble.

Be sure to check the speed limitations before you spend the money on it if your system would not support the data transfer speed as it runs through chipsets and can't handle the speed of the NVME?