Are all SSD Hard Drives created equal?

GARoss said:

Hi everyone. Getting ready to move from Win 7-64 to Win 10-64 when 10 is available next month. It's my understanding that Win 10 will not install over Win 7 so I'd like to install a new 250Gb SSD (I currently have Win 7 on a 128Gb SSD as C: ) for a clean install on it. Once all my files & software are transferred I'll keep the current 128Gb SSD as an extra drive.

So, are all SSD Hard Drives created equal? I'm looking at NewEgg & the prices are all over the place. My current SSD is a Cruicial 128Gb which has worked 4 yrs flawlessly.

Yes W10 is supposed to install over W7 and that is what M$ is going to do with there free W10.

You will be able to install Win 10 as an upgrade to Win 7 meaning you will keep your installed programs and data.

As far as the 2nd part of your post. No, not all ssds are created equal. Some have better performance or better reliability. For the most part the old saying holds true, "You get whta you pay for".

There's M.2 SSD, PCIe SSD, mSATA, and there's SATA SSD. The first one performs the best. But if your talking about the regular 2.5" SATA SSD, the answer is still "no" they're not created equal. But the popular Samsung 850 series is one of the good performers out there that doesn't hurt a pocket so much. :)

GARoss said:

Thanks for the replies! The only reason I wanted a new SSD is because of my misunderstanding that W10 could not install over W7; meaning a clean install of W10 on the new SSD, as the W7 SSD lacks capacity (only 128Gb).

So, the install procedure would be;

• Save W7 data as an ISO (?) on a different drive.
• Download the W10 ISO & create an install disk.
• Load the disk so W7 is recognized.
• Install W10 as a clean install on the current C:

Something like that?

If you do a clean Install that will wipe all your W7 data and programs. If you want to keep your W7 stuff you need to do a upgrade that will keep all your data and programs and you will not need to reinstall. You do need to make a backup of your W7 so that if things go wrong you can restore and still have an OS.

You're confusing me. You say you want to do a clean install but then you say you want to have Win 7 "recognized" and then install Win 10. What do you mean that you want Win 7 recognized?

Since you want to go to a larger ssd, the way I would do it would be to clone your current ssd with Win 7 and all your programs to a new, larger ssd. Once that was in working order, I would then do the upgrade to Win 10 would would keep all of your installed programs in tact.

With a clean install you will need to reinstall all of your programs.

If you want to find out about SSD's go to http://techreport.com/storage/ and read all articles about the Endurance Experiment. The winner was(which I use as system drive on my desktop) the Samsung 840 Pro 256GB with over 2 Petabytes and when I was thinking of getting a Kingston M2, but after reading the specs, my Samsung still blows it away:
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