Sunday, April 21, 2013

Mentor Log #7 April 3, 2013


Individual Time: 5 Hours
Running Total: 25 hours

My solid state drive came in! :D This made me very excited. I finally got to throw my old hard drive to the side.

The back up proccess took a while. I needed to make sure everything I needed was off of my old hard drive. Once done, I unplugged the other hard drive. The thing about SSDs (solid state drives) is that they are much smalled than normal hard drives, so I needed to mount the SSD into a bracket that would fit in the slot of a normal hard drive. Once done, I connected the power cord from the power supply and the SATA cord that connects to the mother board. The drive was in place! Then I installed the operating system, which didn't take that long since the speed of this drive was increadably fast.

I ran tools that cleared unneeded files from the instalation, and defragmented it. I timed boot up. 11 seconds. It was AWESOME! So happy to have this drive in now.

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