Add an NVMe SSD – Computer Setup and System Configuration Forum
I was given a Dell 7550 with a 1.8G i7 8th gen CPU, 16G RAM, an spinning rust HDD, a 17″ screen and lighted keypad. This is an improvement over my current daily driver (an old Dell i3.
I have a 256G NVMe, there’s an NVMe slot in the machine. I’d like to leave the HDD but make the SSD the system drive.
That means:
Tell windoze 10 there’s another drive installed
Format it
Clone the HDD to the SSD
Then ?
Tell windoze to switch the drive letters?’
Or tell the bios to boot from the SSD?
I have a 256G NVMe, there’s an NVMe slot in the machine. I’d like to leave the HDD but make the SSD the system drive.
That means:
Tell windoze 10 there’s another drive installed
Format it
Clone the HDD to the SSD
Then ?
Tell windoze to switch the drive letters?’
Or tell the bios to boot from the SSD?
Lastly, i’m wondering, how much of an improvement will this machine (8th gen 1.8G, 16G RAM) be over my trusty old Dell 6520 (2nd or 3rd gen 2.6G i7 with 8G RAM) be? Obviously the extra RAM is better but how about the slower, newer CPU?
I’m going to use both (and two other machines), so i will eventually find out.
Thanks
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