Getting new HD today

[Multibocks]

So I bought the SSD recommended in one of the threads here,120G OCZ, and I am curious if any of you could give me some pointers about installing it. I think I will migrate my OS over to it as well as WoW. From what I gather in the interwebs I can image copy my OS over to new drive and then make it the master drive. Is that as simple as it sounds? Or is there more to it? Any help would be much appreciated!

[Fef]

I run Windows Vista + WoW from a 60GB OCZ Vertex in my MacPro. Very happy with it. The drive is used only for that, and it's the only Windows drive.

Copying the whole system from one drive to another is very doable, at least when this is done using an imaging/cloning software. I never attempted any other way of transfering a system.

[Owltoid]

I'd suggest returning the 120GB SSD, getting a smaller one, and only running WoW off it. I run my OS on a 7200RPM drive and everything is smooth. The only time I need the performance of an SSD is with multiple instances of WoW. You probably paid a hefty premium for that size SSD and I'd suggest getting something that will work well for now, and in a couple years upgrading to the SLC SSDs which will have dropped in price significantly.

[Starbuck_Jones]

Cut and paste of the c: to a new drive and making that drive the primary drive doesn't really work. You might be able to pull it off, but you will need to do things like a fixboot and fixmbr and such because that information that makes it bootable, does not get copied over.

[Multibocks]

hrm ok guess I might just put WoW on the SSD.

It was only 270 or so, not too expensive.

[Multibocks]

Well hmm seems Im not up on the new cables for HDs. My computer has two raptors raided together in what looks like SATA II cabling. I have to check my motherboard to see if there are any open connectors as I cant see under the video cards to where they connect. This may have been a useless purchase, lol.

[olibri1]

Most motherboards have several connectors, so just look around where the others are connected.

BTW, to comment on what others have said above: Definitely run WOW from the SSD. I have a Samsung 64G SSD and it's amazing. The only thing though is that I also mapped my virtual memory to the SSD and I think that might have been a bad idea. I've been getting lots of computer hangs and I think that this is the reason.

[Multibocks]

Ok found a connector in my package of mb stuff. Question is: It leaves two pins open (nothing connected to them), anyone know if thats a problem?

[Multibocks]

Ok so I decided to just go for it and plug it in. Well the computer recognized something was connected to the SATA port, but it wouldnt boot after that. I dont know why that would stop the machine from booting. I disconnected it and it boots fine. So either those two pins are something important (maybe they need to be jumpered together or something) or I have the wrong cable.

[Multibocks]

Wow this HD is turning into a major headache. The support forum is telling me I need to remove all drives from SATA and plug in my SSD and also reset my CMOS. This is the "first try" at making it work. They have other lists of things to try as well and some are unbelievably complicated. I thought shit these days were supposed to be plug and play....