![]() (I'm using less that 20% off the ssd and the laptop will be obsoleted or unsafe to connnect to the internet long before I'm anywhere near 80%) I am familiar with Crucial's Storage Executive and did apply an outstanding firmware update as a well as activited Momentum Cache and Over Provisioning. I'm intrigued by you observations on cloning vs full backup and restore. I'm tempted to take the full backup that I did before the clone and restore it to the ssd for practice (I've never had to do that) and see if it makes a difference.I'm not inclined to do a clean Windows install just to change the BIOS setting to AHCI.Interestingly enough Intel's Rapid Storage Technology apps keeps throwing "an unknown error has occoured while running the application.'" I'll probably uninstall it and see what happens - with the ssd in place I don't think it provides any added value. Neither Dell's Support Assist nor Intel's Driver and Support Assistant are finding anything to update. I periodically use Dell's Support Assist to scan for driver or other issues.I appreciate your point by point response: Suffice it to say I generally run my cars and electroncis until they die, are obloleted, or pose an unacceptable safety/security risk. It has cost me time, frustration, and money and with every update I wonder what is going to break. Regarding my windows update comment - I have a hate-hate relationship with windows 10. Sorry for the delay in getting back to you - after I posted the question 'life' happened (and is still happening but at least settling down a bit.) Given that boot time has worsened, a clean install would be a good step. A clean install gets rid of a lot of accumulated garbage. If you have Windows 10 via an upgrade-in-place from a previous version of Windows, you might now consider performing a clean install. You could create unallocated space to act as overprovisioning, or enable overprovisioning in Crucial Storage Executive, which would prevent you from filling the drive too much and provide a performance and lifespan boost. Beyond that, both performance and lifespan will suffer. You should update to latest firmware.ĭon't let your drive get more than about 80% full. You could install Crucial Storage Executive, which has various functions to monitor and maintain your SSD such as facilitating firmware updates. Since you replaced your previous drive with the new SSD, paths will be the same. Since you've already done it now and your system works, don't worry about it. Cloning has no advantage over full backup and restore, except a slight time saving at the expense of considerably more risk and complexity. Backup/imaging and recovery is a far safer method, and allows for multiple tries if the user is unfamiliar. If something goes wrong, the user may end up with two unbootable drives and loss of data. As everything works at the moment, don't worry about it. If you were to perform a clean install of Windows, you could consider switching from RAID to AHCI. No, other than normal process of keeping drivers updated.That is normal and desirable updating of Windows. I'm not sure what point you make by saying "I did get hit with 2 Microsoft Win 10 updates and a Malicious software removal tool update shortly after the clone".
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