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Hi all I have been reading a bit about ssd and not quit sure but would this speed up my VM at all? Sometimes I could fall asleep waiting on this damb thing.
I have an acer computer laptop.
Also how difficult is it to install as I am not tech savvy at alll.

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It's plug and play. Learn to install an OS and you are all set.

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I have os on cd already. So I would be set to have ssd?

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You have not answered my question. Do you know how to install an OS?

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I know how to install an os onto a cd yes. But to a ssd no maybe same concept I'm not sure?
So to use ssd you just plug it into laptop with a USB cord?

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An SSD is replacement to a mechanical hard drive. Remove the mechanical hard drive from your computer and just plug in the SSD. Boot up your OS and install.

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Ok not sure about taking out hard drive though. Also what about the stuff on my hard drive? Would I save it to an SD card? Before removing it. Thanks for you r help as well

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I can see how noobish you are, better consult with sum1 who knows a little bit about computers.

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Ok thanks for trying. I'll stick with what I got for now then

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Been eating lots of videos and I now have the knowledge ordered and it's on it way:-) can't wait to stay awake at the computer:-)

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SSD Hard Drives are pretty awesome, I built my wife a Computer and installed a SSD and her PC boots uber fast, runs fast....can't go wrong with a SSD.

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Thanks for the excitement can't wait to get it!
And experience it

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What Windows Version are you running for your VMWares?

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Windows 7 was all I could find for free.

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Yeah agreed! Now that I have an SSD in my computer, would never go without one!

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Easiest way to do things is to find installation and instruction videos on Youtube.
And SSD is definitely the way to go. I replace every single new laptop I get to have the fastest SSD I can find.

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Using XP would make your VM's 10x faster. There are tons of torrents out there. If you aren't torrent savvy, any version of Linux would be faster than Win 7.

SSD's are great and can potentially speed up your computer a ton, but I honestly don't think upgrading to an SSD would have much of an impact on the performance of your VMs. You would have to match your hard drive upgrade with a nice RAM upgrade to really be able to tell any difference. Reason being is each VM eats up a ton of RAM, because each VM uses the same amount of RAM as a regular computer.

So you can either spend hundreds of dollars upgrading your RAM and hard drive, or simply downgrade your virtual operating system.

Personally, I have 23 Windows XP VMs. Each one gets either 1gb or 512mb of RAM and 10gb HDD space. I run them seamlessly on a 6 year old laptop with 4g RAM, lol.

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SSD all the way.

I have a dinosaur all-in-one desktop with a mechanical drive... all it's used for is a kitchen computer playing YouTube. I almost threw it in the trash but it has a purpose again.. :)

SSD all the way.

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An SSD by itself will not increase the performance much of Windows 7 VM's. :(

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Go Windows XP if you still feel sluggish.

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Awesome inputs thanks all

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Can't he just add and shift the OS to SSD for booting?

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You have the option to clone your current hard drive and everything would be exactly the same as it was before, including user accounts and intact cookies.

If you buy a Samsung SSD, it comes with the cloning software. If you buy any other brand, you will have to find your own aftermarket cloning software.

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Thanks TGMT 2 I did get the samsung:-)

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Cloning is an option if that is your thing... but fresh installing is the best for getting the most optimal performance for your computer.

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If OP is only going to change the OS HD with a SSD, there is no point in installing everything from scratch. The machine around it wont change, cloning will work just fine.

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Please re-read what I said "most optimal performance for your computer" let's just let OP decide.

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@aspkin so glad to get feedback from you:-) thank you I was to that point last month until I started watching videos about ssd.

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@phaz0rz I set My sites on xp this morning. Now I have it on VM ran a test and wow it is so smooth and definitely faster then the windows 7 I was using. Can't thank you enough for that tip! Now waiting [emoji88] for ssd[emoji7]

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Haha no problem. I ordered myself an SSD last night also :)

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Cool:-) I am trying get to figure out how to get wine off all these and xp on them thought I had it but not yet. If I delete my VMs then when I recreate them with xp that would make it like starting all over so ebay pp would be watching so trying to do it still with out starting all over.

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I don't know if I'll be able to explain in a way you will understand, but it is possible to migrate all of your Windows 7 stuff to XP.

You would have to set your Windows XP .ISO to boot when the VM starts up. This is done by going into the VM's settings, CD-DVD (IDE), and selecting "Use ISO image file". You select your XP installation ISO and the VM will load XP setup on next startup. Then, you SHOULD have the option to downgrade your OS while leaving all user settings and documents in tact. I know this is easily done when upgrading your Windows OS, so I'm assuming the case is the same when downgrading.

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I highly discourage downgrading.

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Yeah thanks but I don't see anywhere that says use iso image file? The rest of it before this I could follow

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@ phaz0rz Wow I can't believe it. I kept at it and got it. Now one done more to go but at least now I can do it thanks so much[emoji106]

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I highly recommend it. It's the easiest way for OP to keep their browser profiles in tact while changing to a less resource intensive VM OS.

Why exactly would you discourage downgrading? Win 7 is terrible for VMs :smash:

@OP - Glad you figured it out :) Things will be much smoother now!

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i misunderstood

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I had to walk away for 10 minutes and come back and Crack it with your helpfulness I was able too:-)

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Great! info!

Might try this myslef

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Sorry another question. But I see only Firefox for browser on xp? Is that fine to use Firefox or should I install ie? As I thought if different browser then it would be like a new person etc? Not sure if Firefox is fine or if I should install ie.